U.S. companies that export synthetic hydraulic fluids to China may have to think twice about doing so in the future if the federal government adopts a ...

2005 was a good year for Castrol Industrial North America,which saysit posted a 7 percent increase in sales revenue in the United States and Canada. T ...

ExxonMobil imposed allocations last week on one of the Group II-plus base stocks produced at its plant in Baytown, Texas. A source outside the company ...

Swedish grease maker Axel Christiernsson International AB announced last week that it has reached an agreement to acquire Shells Christol Grease SAS. ...

OAO LukOil has reached an agreement to supply lubricants and fuels to Russias largest passenger car manufacturer, OAO Avtovaz, the companies announced ...

Valero Energy Corp. has reconsidered an earlier plan to close its Paulsboro, N.J., base oil plant as early as 2007. According to market sources, the c ...

Chinas burgeoning economy is producing more goods and people for trucks and buses to carry, and that should open the way to greater opportunity for ma ...

One of three base oil trains at Motivas Port Arthur, Texas, base oil plant is scheduled to shut down this week for a maintenance turnaround, customers ...

Uniqema has purchased BPs line of Icematic polyol ester and alkyl benzene refrigeration lubricants, the companies announced last week. Uniqema officia ...

Lubrication systems giant Graco Inc. has purchased Lubriquip Inc. from IDEX Corp., the companies announced yesterday. Terms of the sale were not discl ...

First-quarter lubricant sales volumes in the United States rose 2.2 percent compared to the same period of 2005, according to the latest figures from ...

Chemtool Inc. announced last week that it has installed the worlds largest grease kettle – a reactor with capacity of 130,000 pounds. But the Ch ...

Asias lubricant industry received a bit of relief this spring for its chronic base oil shortage, as one refiner completed an expansion and another ope ...

Yesterday was Independence Day in the United States, making this a quiet week for U.S. base oil markets. None of the base oil buyers or sellers reache ...

Solvay will build a new PTFE micronized powder plant in Changshu, China, to serve growing local demand, the company announced Friday. Production is sc ...

Valvoline announced Friday that it has completed its purchase of Buis Oil, a local Valvoline distributor based in Noblesville, Ind. Terms were not dis ...

Croda International Plc. has reached an agreement to buy ICI Groups oleochemical subsidiary, Uniqema, the companies announced last week. Croda said i ...

A Canadian start-up is planning to join the ranks of North Americas rerefiners. Saskalta Corp. is building a used oil processing plant at the former s ...

ExxonMobil is still top dog in the global base oil market, but the Royal Dutch/Shell family closed the gap a bit the past year. ExxonMobil remains by ...

The U.S. base oil market completed a dragged-out round of price hikes Monday, as Flint Hills Resources imposed markups ranging from 11 cents to 14 cen ...