Lucas Oil will begin selling its first consumer engine oils – which it launched in 630 Pep Boys stores in October – to NAPA Auto Parts sto ...

Snyder Industries – a manufacturer of polyethylene tanks and containers for storage, transportation and processing of bulk materials – has ...

A lube blending plant under construction for Indian Oil subsidiary Lanka IOC in Sri Lanka will have the capability to manufacturea wide rangeof automo ...

Six lubricant industry executives have bought RhinoPak, a contract blender and packager of lubricants and solvent-based liquids, powders and other che ...

Additional refiners joined the latest round of posted price reductions,with Calumet announcing 5 to 7 cents-per-gallon cuts in Group I and Group IIpri ...

LC Group of Philadelphia has acquired 100 percent of the stock in Crowley Chemical and Crowley Tar Products Inc. for an undisclosed price. Products ma ...

Wilmerding, Pa.-based lubes blender Allegheny Petroleum Products has expanded, acquiring a distributor in Indiana. Allegheny plans to continue growing ...

Ineos Oligomers will invest $4.5 million in structures and equipment for its Whiting, Ind. polybutene plant soit can reach its full, rated annual capa ...

Graham Packaging Co. recently announced plans to close its manufacturing plant in North Charleston, S.C., effective in mid-February. The plants 23 emp ...

French lubricants company Motul has acquired a 30 percent stake in Vietnam Lubricants and Chemicals Joint Stock Corp. (Vilube), which a Motul official ...

Base oil prices continued to fall following ExxonMobils posted price cuts of 5 to 7 cents per gallon last week, with Valero, Citgo and Group III impor ...

Toronto-based Lifesciences Capital Corp. has signed a letter of intent to purchase all the issued and outstanding shares of Bio-Extraction Ltd., whose ...

Metalloid Corp. subsidiary Fin Works, Burr Held and Burr Oak Tool and Gauge Co. have announced an alliance to provide product solutions – includ ...

WD-40 Co. yesterday reported its net sales forits first quarter, ended Nov. 30, 2006, were $72 million, a 7 percent increase over the first quarter of ...

Polartech Indias new manufacturing facility, which has capacity to blend up to 30,000 metric tons of metalworking fluid products per year, has begun p ...

Industry sources had different views on why the lubes market appeared to remain sluggish through most of 2006, with fuel prices, auto sales, increased ...

The U.S. base oil market generally returned to demand-supply balance during the second half of 2006, but the recovery did not proceed evenly across th ...

Chemical companies BASF and Troy Corp. recently announced price increases for their chemical products used in synthetic lubricants and metalworking fl ...

JERSEY CITY, N.J. – Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. is likely to greenlight a Group II base oil plant to come onstream in 2013, with net additional cap ...

JERSEY CITY, N.J. – Bright stock undersupply is no temporary phenomenon, its the wave of the future, an industry consultant warned. A variety of ...