Dow Biocides announced the cancellation of off-list prices for glutaraldehyde products used in metalworking fluids, and Kraton Polymers said it would ...

News of posted price hikes from Motiva, SK and Flint Hills Resources reached the market over the past week, following previously announced price adjus ...

Lubrizol Corp. yesterday announced a 10-year phased investment plan to upgrade and increase global capacity in its additive business, geared to an est ...

According to a March 23 report in Britains online newspaper Telegraph, several large private equity firms plan to submit offers for Infineum Internati ...

Total U.S. lubricant sales volumes in the fourth quarter of 2007 climbed 3.6 percent compared to the same period in 2006, according to the latest sale ...

BASF and China Petroleum and Chemical Corp. (Sinopec) on Thursday submitted the technical and commercial feasibility study for approval of a planned $ ...

TAMPA, Fla. – Two years ago blow-molded polyethylene prices began to follow crude oil pricing. Today, where crude pricing goes, resin prices fol ...

LONDON – Chinas gross domestic product is forecast to grow 9 percent per year through 2011, car sales are expected to increase more than 20 perc ...

Another wave of increase announcements inundated the market during the past week, outlining posted price hikes for paraffinic base oils. Citgo and Val ...

An explosion and fire at Cortec Corp.s corrosion inhibitor plant in Spooner, Wis., yesterday injured two workers and caused a limited evacuation of lo ...

ExxonMobil Chemical and Shell Chemicals Ltd. last week announced they have agreed to evaluate market interest and discuss the possible sale of Infineu ...

S-Oil and Total on Monday signed an agreement to form afifty-fifty joint venture, S-Oil Total Lubricants Co. Ltd., that combines S-Oils lubricant busi ...

Weyerhaeuser Co. on Monday announced the sale of its containerboard packaging and recycling business to International Paper for $6 billion in cash. Br ...

Last month, Houghton International Chairman and Chief Executive Officer William F. MacDonald, Jr. retired from the company following a 40-year tenure. ...

Huntsman announced increases in prices for a variety of amines used in lubricants and solvents, while Oxea raised prices for amines used in surfactant ...

ExxonMobil issued price notices to its customers outlining plans to implement 15 cent-per-gallon increases on Group I and II+ base oils effective toda ...

Fuchs Petrolub Group AG has acquired a long-term lease for industrial land in India, where it plans to begin building a new lubricants plant in the se ...

High Velocity Alternative Energy on March 4 announced it had received an annual contract for $30 million to supply a major Midwestern distributor of l ...

Klber Lubrication and Chem-Trend, two business units of Freudenberg Chemical Specialties KG, will produce specialty lubricants and release agents at a ...

LONDON – Is there further growth for naphthenic base stocks? Yes, certainly, said the president of Ergon Europe at an industry conference here l ...