Ashland Inc., parent company of lubricant marketer Valvoline, said Monday that about 100 employees have chosen to accept voluntary severance offers th ...

SKF Canada has acquired Automatic Lubrication Systems of Burlington, Ontario, for an undisclosed amount. ALS, with 17 employees, services centralized ...

ExxonMobil Chemical said Thursday it has completed several debottlenecking projects at its synthetics plant in Beaumont, Texas, that increase capacity ...

Royal Manufacturing Co. LP and its affiliate Wright Oil Co. have almost finished moving into a newly constructed facility in the San Antonio area desi ...

Indias Dorf Ketal, an additives and process chemicals supplier, has acquired ExxonMobil Chemicals component additives business, hoping to capitalize o ...

Coming in June 2007, LubesnGreases Europe – Middle East – Africa is a fresh new magazine from the publishers of Lube Report that will focu ...

A fire occurred March 21 and an explosion and fire took place Monday at Calumets Shreveport, La., refinery, the latter injuring two employees. Neither ...

The U.S. subsidiary of Rotterdam, Netherlands-based chemical distribution company Univar N.V. put the kibosh on a possible bidding war for Chemcentral ...

OAO LukOil last week entered a supply and technology agreement with Russian automaker OOO Gaz Group. The deal calls for LukOil subsidiary OOO LLK-Inte ...

While Jiffy Lube continues to dominate the next largest fast-lube chain by more than a two-to-one ratio, Wal-Mart, with its 2,342 Wal-Mart Tire and Lu ...

A fire on March 20 destroyed the bio-based lubricants production facility of Environmental Lubricants Manufacturing Inc. in Plainfield, Iowa. ELM Chai ...

Capacity at Chevrons Richmond, Calif., base oil plant has been recalculated to a nominal 20,000 barrels per day, according to a report released by the ...

Chevron announced it will lower prices, effective today, on two of its Group II base oil offerings – by 15 cents on 100 visgrade, and 13 cents o ...

Fuchs Petrolub AG recently reported that its profit leaped 31 percent in 2006, fueled by a hefty increase in sales revenue. The Mannheim, Germany, com ...

BASF, Oxea Group, Dow Chemical Co. and Pilot Chemical Co. recently announced price increases forcertain chemical products. BASFs and Oxea Groups produ ...

Chevron Oronite Co. LLC has begun studying the expansion of detergent production capacity at its Jurong Island manufacturing site in Singapore. The de ...

Petrobras, which is Brazils state-controlled oil company, along with business partners Braskem and the Ultra Group on Monday announced they will purch ...

The U.S. subsidiary of Rotterdam, Netherlands-based chemical distribution company Univar N.V.entered into an agreement to acquire all the shares of Ch ...

Chevron has extended the duration of the maintenance turnaround at its Richmond, Calif., refinery – originally scheduled to last about six weeks ...

Oxea Group – a chemical company whose products are used in lubricants – recently launched its business operations under the ownership of i ...