With Chinas major lubricant suppliers raising prices, and raw material prices and supply stabilizing, Sinopec predicts growing profits for Chinas lubr ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that it asked an Illinois natural gas distribution company to widen its search for PCBs after the ...

Ineos Oligomers last week announced a 10 percent increase of its global production capacity for polyalphaolefins through expansion at its two PAO plan ...

U.S. ball, roller and plain bearing demand will rise 3.1 percent per year through 2011 to $10.4 billion, according to a new Freedonia Group study. Fre ...

What do the most profitable quick lubes do differently from their poorer brethren? According to a survey released this week by the Automotive Oil Chan ...

U.S. Energy Initiatives Corp. has acquired GreenTree Spray Technologies LLC – known as SeaSpray Aerosol Inc. – from Nano Chemical Solution ...

Motiva lowered posted prices for several base stocks on August 24. The major producer dropped its Group II Star 4 105 viscosity by 22 cents to $2.84 p ...

Henkels proposal to acquire part of Imperial Chemical Industries PLCs National Starch subsidiary – including lubricant and additives supplier Ac ...

A United Arab Emirates lubricant supplier suffered major damage in a fire that temporarily closed a busy port Friday. News reports said the blaze appe ...

Material shortages and equipment delivery delays have slowed construction work on Petronas new API Group III base oil refinery in Melaka, Malaysia, bu ...

Pilot Chemical Co., Ciba Specialty Chemicals and Dow Chemical have announced price increases for certain chemical products. Pilot Chemicals products a ...

Kaman Industrial Technologies recently announced a distribution agreement with specialty lubricants manufacturer Klber Lubrication North America L.P t ...

Suzuki Motors Corp. has signed a long-term agreement to use Shell lubricants and oils exclusively in vehicles manufactured at two Suzuki automotive pl ...

Hatco Corp., a subsidiary of Chemtura, last week won a $14.8 million contract from the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency to supplyester-based aviation tur ...

ExxonMobil announced plans to lower its American Core 100 viscosity (Group I) base stocks by 40 cents per gallon, effective August 23. Tuesdays announ ...

Independent refiner Calumet Specialty Products Partners LP said it increased profits during the second quarter, while South Korean refiner S-Oil repor ...

Rohmax Oil Additives, Dow Chemical and Chattem recently announced price increases for certain chemical products. Rohmaxs products are lubricant additi ...

Demand for API Group III base oils, high quality refined mineral oil that can be marketed as synthetic, is growing at 10 percent per year, but will ne ...

The European Commission recently granted its clearance to Italian refiner Enis acquisition of ExxonMobils lubricant businesses in Hungary, the Czeck R ...

Bel-Ray Co. Inc. recently announced that Socko Teknik will serve as its exclusive distributor of general industrial and No-Tox food grade lubricant pr ...