The continued shutdown of the ExxonMobil Chemical polyalphaolefin (PAO) plant in Beaumont, Texas, has forced ExxonMobil Lubricants and Specialties to ...

Nynas lowered the price of its naphthenic base stocks by 20 cents per gallon effective Wednesday, Oct. 8. This move rounds out the price cuts at the s ...

Private equity firm Riverside Co. recently acquired DuBois Chemicals, a specialty chemicals company whose products include industrial lubricants and m ...

Oxea yesterday outlined plans to produce butyric acid at its North American production site in Bay City, Texas, and to implement process improvements ...

Saudi financial services firm Swicorp announced Saturday that it has invested an undisclosed amount in Algerian oil jobber Petroser to help fund new l ...

Distributors Rogers Petroleum Inc. and Kelso Oil Co. plan to join forces starting Dec. 1 to create one of the largest lubricant distributors in the so ...

Commercial production starts this week at Hydrodecs new transformer oil rerefinery in Canton, Ohio. The 22,000 square foot plant, built at a cost of $ ...

DEARBORN, Mich. – Asthma? You bet. Dermatitis? Still an issue. Cancer? Problematic. Mycobacteria? Not always guilty! And what about those ultraf ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — General Motors will introduce its new Global Engine Oil Specification in two years, for all GM model year 2011 gasoline-fuel ...

Flint Hills Resources surprised many paraffinic players by issuing a 20 cent per gallon decrease for all its API Group II paraffinic base stocks, effe ...

Fuchs Petrolub AG acquired MS Fluid Technologies via its U.S. subsidiary Fuchs Lubricants Co. effective Oct. 1. Indianapolis-based MS Fluids products ...

Additives International will lease Lockhart Chemical Co.s 13-acre Flint, Mich., production facility, gaining new capabilities in calcium and barium su ...

Spectrum Corp. has acquired American Lubricating Co., bringing together two Tennessee lubricant blenders who share a focus on the outdoor power equipm ...

U.S. lubricant manufacturing companies pay their plant managers an average of $124,500 a year, while U.S. lube distributors pay their counterparts an ...

Under names like the paraffin mafia and the Blauer Salon, cartel members meet up at ritzy hotel bars throughout Europe to plot fixing of prices and ma ...

Recovery and start-up plans are in full swing at most refineries in the U.S. Gulf Coast following the hurricanes that ripped through just over two wee ...

Lubricant and specialty chemical supplier Weicon Inc. has opened a North American office in Kitchener, Ont., Canada. Mnster, Germany-based Weicon manu ...

Dallas-based additive company Platinum Research Organization has reached agreement with a group of long-term investors to provide it with $1.5 million ...

Hexion Specialty Chemicals attempt to extricate itself from a merger with Huntsman appeared to reach a dead end yesterday when the Delaware Court of C ...

Lubrizol Corp. on Monday outlined key company officer changes aimed at supporting continued growth, including promotions of Steve Kirk and Dan Sheets. ...