Some base oil suppliers continued to observe a steady stream of orders, while others have started to see signs of softening demand. This situation was ...

As part of its inquiry into lubricant dumping in the United Kingdom, the U.K.’s Trade Remedies Authority could not reconcile discrepancies in inform ...

Perstorp, the Swedish specialty chemicals manufacturer owned by Petronas Chemicals Group Berhad, has launched a new portfolio of saturated synthetic p ...

Europe’s electric vehicle segment is still gaining market share. That is, except for Tesla.

Zeller+Gmelin, a chemical company based in Germany, has opened a lubricant production facility in Huzhou, China, as part of its expansion in Asia.

Base oil prices this week are largely stable across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, but there are variations between regions. For example, demand ...

BP Plc launched the sale of its Castrol lubricants division, a potential U.S.$10 billion transaction.

The Asian base oils market has entered a more restrained demand period because of seasonal events such as the monsoons in parts of Southeast Asia and ...

Fundamentals were relatively stable for base oils and lubricants as the summer driving season unofficially got underway on Memorial Day, May 26 – in ...

Specialty chemical company Pilot Chemical and low-crabon base oil company Novvi entered into an exclusive partnership to introduce biobased alpha olef ...

Europe’s oleochemicals industry is urging lawmakers in Brussels to widen the scope of the European Union Deforestation Regulation.

Operations at the joint BASF-Sinopec ethanolamines plant in Nanjing are expected to resume at the end of May.

Fuchs Petrolub SE, the German lubricants manufacturer, is investing more than 220 million Brazilian real (U.S.$39 million) to construct a blending fac ...

Prices for API Group I and Group II base oils appear stable and steady around Europe, the Middle East and Africa regions, with supply and demand evenl ...

Base oil prices were mixed because of slowing demand from some segments – a trend that was partly offset by curtailed availability due to plant turn ...

Russia’s domestic grease market is still lucrative despite sanctions and escalating raw materials costs.

Paraffinic base oil prices were mostly stable with activity levels ticking up ahead of the Memorial Day weekend on May 26, which marks the start of th ...

Lubricant exporters in the United Arab Emirates and U.K. importers of their goods face tariffs on their products more than double those applied to com ...

OQ Chemicals has changed its name back to Oxea, following its acquisition by two investment firms.

Phillips 66 announced it will relinquish a 65% stake in its fuel retail operations in Germany and Austria, part of a push to streamline operations and ...