Rohm and Haas recently announced a price increase for specialty amines used in lubricant additives, while Dow announced a rise in price for hydraulic ...

Hercules Inc. on Nov. 1 completed expansion of its Louisiana, Mo., synthetic lubricants manufacturing facility, which produces synthetic polyol esters ...

If you live in Indiana, you will soon be able to check e-mail and sip a cappuccino while having your cars oil changed. Thats what Lucas Oil has in min ...

Higher prices have or will soon hit both the paraffinic and naphthenic sectors. Another wave of price increase announcements swept through the U.S. ba ...

HOUSTON – The promise of high quality gas-to-liquids base oils from Qatar has shifted from a shining oasis to a mirage because of reserve deplet ...

Five people were killed last week in a massive fire that broke out at a lubricant blending plant in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Police reportedly s ...

HOUSTON – REACH (registration, evaluation and authorization of chemicals) legislation that went into force June 1 in Europe requires knowledge o ...

ExxonMobil has sold its 30-percent stake in Saudi Aramco Lubricating Oil Refining Company (Luberef), majority shareholder Saudi Aramco announced yeste ...

Third-quarter financial reports released by Quaker Chemical and Milacron cite both good news and bad news for the industrial lubricant suppliers. Whi ...

Castrol India Ltd. and Volvo Car India on Oct. 31 entered into a strategic partnership whereby all Volvo cars sold in India will be pre-filled with Ca ...

Following a daring price move by Sunoco a week ago, other U.S. base oil producers stepped out with increase initiatives this week, on the back of fast ...

U.S. sales of lubricants, greases and process oils fell just shy of 2.45 billion gallons in 2006, according to data released yesterday by the National ...

A fire Monday involving totes and drums of solvents at the Des Moines, Iowa, area plant of industrial chemicals distributor Barton Solvents forced tem ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Iranian refiners have planned what could become the first two Group II and Group III base oil plants in the Middle ...

Financial results for the quarter and year ending Sept. 30 saw a rise in operating income at lubricant blender Valvoline, with a big boost from Valvol ...

Lubrizols Lubricant Additives segment posted a 37 percent increase, and Afton Chemical a 27 percent increase in operating income for the quarter endin ...

Singaporean environmental services provider Hyflux Ltd. recently announced two separate agreements to form joint ventures that will build used-oil rec ...

A rupture in a pressurized lubricating oil tank caused an oil spill at the Ormat geothermal plant in Reno, Nev., on Oct. 17. No fire or injuries were ...

Although crude values have soared to new highs in recent weeks, most U.S. base oil producers have yet to react by adjusting posted prices. The excepti ...

Calumet Specialty Products Partners on Monday announced an agreement to acquire Penreco, a major white oil supplier, from ConocoPhillips and M.E. Zuke ...