Car dealer Towell Auto Centre announced an agreement last week to supply Total lubricants to Al Maha Petroleums chain of fuel stations in Oman. Towell ...

Kraton Polymers announced plans to raise prices on SBS-based polymers and compounds in the Asia Pacific region, and Oxea said it would raise list and ...

Chemtura Corp. last week announced the expansion of manufacturing capacity for its Hybase overbased calcium sulfonate line in West Hill, Ont., Canada. ...

Maine recently repealed a motor vehicle oil change fee put in place last October, amending the law to replace it with a fee imposed on distributors of ...

CLEVELAND – Friction and wear may be the biggest obstacles to harnessing wind energy, Larry Viterna, a tribologist at the NASA Glenn Research Ce ...

Lukoil has reformulated and relaunched its premium tier engine oils, part of its effort to adapt to Russias rapidly changing automobile market. The M ...

SK and Lithcon Petroleum USA have jointly agreed not to renew their 12-year marketing agreement when it expires at the end of August, and SK will begi ...

As oil prices continued to skyrocket, U.S. base oil consumers braced themselves for the likelihood of fresh price hikes. They were not surprised when ...

BASF plans to double its manufacturing capacity for certain alkylethonalamines (AEOA) by mid-2009 in response to increases in customer demand for the ...

Colonial Specialty Chemicals has been named U.S. distributor of Lonzas metalworking fluid product line, while Multisol Group, in cooperation with Fren ...

Quaker Chemical Corp. plans to invest $19.8 million to triple production capacity at its Middletown, Ohio, plant and centralize production of its roll ...

Global synthetic and semi-synthetic finished lubricant demand is forecast to grow by 7 percent and 4 percent, respectively, each year until 2017, acco ...

The hits just keep on coming as another wave of price hikes swept through the U.S. base oil market during the past week. ExxonMobil stunned the market ...

Registration has opened for the first international symposium on metalworking fluid issues in more than a decade, The Industrial Metalworking Environm ...

Croda International last week agreed to sell its Chicago-based oleochemicals business to H.I.G. Capital for 46.7 million (U.S. $91 million). The Chica ...

Chemtura announced an increase in prices for a range of petroleum additive products and a boost in production of its Synton brand of PAO products at i ...

Agricultural processing giant Archer Daniels Midland has entered the lubricants business, gaining a minority share position with its investment in Hou ...

SHREVEPORT, La. – Calumet Specialty Products’ expansion at its refinery here started up May 1, with feedstock beginning to go in early las ...

Effective June 1, ExxonMobil will stop supplying base oil from its Bayonne, N.J. terminal, industry sources confirmed to Lube Report. The company ini ...

API Group II and III base oil producers jumped on the band wagon this week, joining major Group I producers that had announced price hikes in April. T ...