ExxonMobil Lubricants and Specialties announced recently that it is broadening its support for the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing, with ...

Kmarts blue-light specials may be popular with shoppers, but a recent sale apparently did not sit well with one of its motor oil suppliers. Shell Oil ...

Conglomerate SK Corp. has announced plans to build a second Group III base oil plant at its oil refinery in Ulsan, South Korea. The $100 million facil ...

The future of Pennzoil-Quaker States stake in Excel Paralubes was a hot topic of private discussions last week at the National Petrochemical and Refin ...

Petro-Canada Lubricants boasts it is the first lubes manufacturer to obtain the ISO/TS 16949 certification, a quality standard established by North Am ...

Cargill Industrial Oils and Lubricants and Hatco Corp. have announced an alliance aimed at supplying biobased industrial lubes to Latin America by the ...

Automaker and lubricant additiverepresentatives agreed at an industry meeting last week that efforts to draft GF-4, the next category of passenger car ...

The U.S. base oil market is quiet this week, partly because many buyers and sellers are attending the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association& ...

ExxonMobil Lubricants and Specialties announced last week that it has landed a contract to supply turbine lubricants for the first phase of China s en ...

Polartech Ltd. announced last week that it has bought Crompton Corp.s Petromix soluble oil base product line to become the leading global supplier of ...

Lubricant sales in the United States declined 3.3 percent in 2001, according to the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association s latest annual Re ...

Milacon Inc. said last week that it plans to discontinue its round tool and grinding wheel operations, the last pieces of its metalworking tools busin ...

With crude oil prices falling approximately $4 per barrel in recent weeks, U.S. base oil purchasers might wonder if the base oil market is ripening fo ...

ExxonMobil announced last week that it plans to close its only German lubricant plant during the second half of next year. The plant is located in the ...

The third quarter brought upbeat news for both Ethyl Corp. and Quaker Chemical Corp. Downsized Ethyl reported net income of $12.3 million, up from jus ...

Hoping to distinguish its Havoline from that sold by Shell, ChevronTexaco last week unveiled an enhanced version of its flagship motor oil. ChevronTex ...

NSF, the group that reviews, registers and lists food-grade lubricants, announced last week that it will sunset the U.S. Dept. of Agricultures old lis ...

Group III supplier Lithcon raised its postings this week,while Citgohas not joined the latestround of U.S. base oil price increases that began Oct. 21 ...

Lubrizol Corp. said last week that its third quarter earnings jumped 60 percent from the same period a year earlier, thanks to increased sales and the ...

(SAN DIEGO, Calif.–) Truckers are challenging the grease industry to extend lubrication intervals and to better protect their fleets. Truckers s ...