Swedish chemical company Perstorp last week announced it had bought OQ Chemicals’ Dutch esters manufacturing facility.

The rapid and surprising fall of Bashar Al Assad’s regime in Syria heralds a new day in that long embattled country. It also raises the prospect of ...

United States-based chemical maker Ingevity will invest more than U.S.$53 million into a facility near its headquarters in South Carolina, U.S., accor ...

Lubricant makers in the United States gobbled up record quantities of imported base stocks in September, according to recent data published by the Ene ...

Germany-based OQ Chemicals announced it will increase prices for its range of carboxylic acids.

Greases are an important part of the lubricants industry, but they are often less understood than fluid lubes. To help bolster that understanding, a t ...

Fuchs Group completed the acquisition of the Swiss industrial lubricant company Strub. In Sepetmber, the company signed a letter of intent to absorb t ...

Brazilian lube company Vibra completed expansion works of its Lubrax lubricant plant in Duque de Caxias to the tune of $16.55 million.

Leading lubricant associations in the United States and Europe have expressed concerns over an influential sustainability panel’s guidance on avoidi ...

Lots of chairs moving around in Europe in November, with some of the big companies filling positions across their businesses. In Germany, Thomas Klost ...

Departing from normal seasonal cycles, there are few indications of base oil refiners looking to sell off inventory prior to the end of this year.

An investigation is ongoing into the cause of a fire at Axel Royal’s Tulsa factory last Tuesday. The blaze sent plumes of black smoke into the air, ...

Japan produced 159,864 kL of finished lubricants in September, a 24% drop from the same month of 2023, according to the latest statistics from the cou ...

Oil giant ExxonMobil will fork out U.S.$200 million on expanding recycling operations at its Beaumont and Baytown refineries in Texas. The company ...

Shell said last week that it remained the world’s largest finished lubricant supplier in 2023 – the 18th consecutive year that the British company ...

Waste oil rerefiner ReGen III aims to be the world’s largest producer of regenerated API Group III base oil when the company commissions its plant ...

The headline-grabbing geopolitical events during the past few days may have implications for energy markets and, more specifically, base oils’ compl ...

Madrid – Avista Green will undertake an expansion of its used lubricant rerefinery in Kalundborg, Denmark, and aims to increase the facility’s bas ...

United Kingdom-based additive company Infineum will open an additive blending plant in India next year. The announcement last week points to the lubri ...