LONDON – The lubricant industrys growing appetite for API Group III base oils is spurring an increasing urge for wider interchange rules that wo ...

Polartech has purchased the Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC facility at Bedford Park, Ill., Polartech Additives and Georgia-Pacific LLC announced Monday ...

Posted paraffinic base oil prices are unchanged in the United States this week. Crude closed at $60.74 per barrel yesterday on the New York Mercantile ...

Royal Purple recently expanded its lubricant manufacturing facility with the addition of a new 10-tank, 300,000-gallon tank farm for bulk raw material ...

Champion Brands LLC yesterday announced the opening of itsbrake fluid blending and packaging division, which the company claims makes it the largest e ...

Val Pakis, who served as president and chief executive officer of D.A. Stuart Co. from 2000 until March 2006, has rejoined Lubrizol Corp. as vice pres ...

United Fuel & Energy Corp. on March 1 announced it will acquire the assets of Reamax Oil Co., a lubricants and fuel distributor based in Camp Ver ...

Lubricants supplier Quaker Chemical Corp. on Feb. 27reported fourth quarter sales of $115.5 million, up 7.8 percent from $107.1 million in 2005s fourt ...

Lanxess chemicals group has begun construction of a new manufacturing plant for lubricant additives in Qingdao, China. The production facility, which ...

LONDON – Increasingly stringent environmental regulations will continue in coming years to raise performance demands for automotive engine oils ...

ConocoPhillips reduced the price of each of its four Group III offerings by 10 cents per gallon effective last Friday, in line with the recent Group I ...

Bijur Delimon International has acquired Delimon Protos India Private Ltd., a centralized lubrication systems and services supplier which Bijur alread ...

Shell Overseas Investment BV of the Netherlands will acquire Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd.s 49 percent shareholding in theirIndian lubricant marketing j ...

LONDON – Global demand for both lubricants and base oils will rise more than 6 percent from 2005 to 2010, a Total executive predicted. The world ...

Milacrons Industrial Fluids segment on Friday reported increased profits for the fourth quarter, and for the full year. The segment, which supplies me ...

Qatar Petroleum and Exxon Mobil Corp. jointly announced plans to cancel their gas-to-liquids fuels and base oils project – first announced in 20 ...

South Korean refiner SK E&P on Monday decreased by 10 cents across the board its four Group III base oil offerings. The U.S. market was otherwise ...

Chemical Specialties (Singapore) Ptd Ltd. has begun construction of a specialty chemical contract manufacturing facility on the Jurong Island chemical ...

Calumet Specialty Products Partners LP reported net income of $31.5 million for the quarter ending Dec. 31, down slightly from $32.1 million for the s ...

LONDON – Global refining trends are increasing the draw for oil companies to enter the base oil market, an industry consultant said here Thursda ...