After years of strong revenue and profit growth, Germanys Fuchs Petrolub AG last week predicted that sales and earnings will decline this year. Busine ...

BASF and Oxea each increased prices for a variety of polyalcols used in producing lubricants, while Oxea also raised prices on several solvents. Ludw ...

Consumers in the U.S. base oil market were inundated with price decrease notices over the past several days. Price cuts from ConocoPhillips, Flint Hil ...

Over the last week in Europe, and similarly in many other parts of the world, it seems as if industry tariff prices have been established by the produ ...

Quaker State wants to join Castrol, Valvoline and Mobil 1 in the marketing boxing ring to decide whose synthetic motor oil has better wear protection, ...

A New York bankruptcy court on Friday approved Chemturas first day motions in its recent Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, which will allow for continuati ...

Lanxess AG has started up its new lubricant oil additives manufacturing plant in Qingdao, China, the company announced Friday. The new plant cost 5 mi ...

Green Earth Technologies biodegradable G-Oil 5W-30 motor oil can now display the American Petroleum Institutes donut service symbol. It is the first b ...

In what appears to be pulling out all the stops, ExxonMobil, Chevron and Motiva told customers they are significantly lowering posted prices by as muc ...

Reality has kicked in, and base oil prices are moving upwards. Producers, having sold out lately to sub break-even price levels, are now trying to rec ...

Whereas most long-haul routes enjoyed another productive week, the same cannot be said for most coastal routes, with the exception of the United State ...

U.S. lubricant sales volumes for 2008s fourth quarter fell by more than 25 percent compared to the year-earlier period, according to the latest sales ...

Sunoco on Friday said it will cut about 750 positions in 2009 as part of an effort to reduce costs by more than $300 million on an annualized basis by ...

Russian lubricant giant LukOil announced last week a three-year agreement to supply industrial lubricants to Novolipetsk Steel. LukOil called the deal ...

Greater availability of high performance lubricants will contribute to reduced or negative growth in lubricant demand in many of the worlds more devel ...

Ciba has opened a new technology service center in Shanghai to serve the process and lubricants additives industry in China. The companys acquisition ...

U.S. base oil business was viewed as improved by many participants this week, but still off from scheduled forecasts for the 2009 spring buying season ...

This week has seen very little activity of any note after the flurry of enquiries and potential business which was talked over the last month or so. L ...

For the first time in seven or eight months, freight levels from Europe to Asia are now higher than those from Asia to Europe. The fronthaul route has ...

Milacron has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States and Canada, part of a restructuring in which two current investors would ...