U.S. demand for amines in lubricants will grow 2.1 percent per year through 2010 to 139 million pounds valued at $214 million, according to a new Free ...

Sisu Chemical has received a half-million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation to commercialize its proprietary water-based emulsion poly ...

Calumet Specialty Products Partners LP said Thursday that profits for the second quarter of 2006 improved 24 percent from the same period of last year ...

BP Castrol is playing games with advertisements for Syntec motor oils – and apparently reaching a lot of men who do likewise on their television ...

Two more U.S. paraffinic base oil producers joined a round of price hikes begun last week, though most Group II suppliers did not – at least not ...

Hercules Inc. and Uniqema, a subsidiary of ICI Group, have agreed to extend their long-standing synthetic lubricants manufacturing agreement. Hercules ...

Dow Biocides, Degussa and BASF have recently hiked prices for chemicals used in lubricant manufacturing. Price increases ranged up to 25 percent on so ...

Two people were seriously injured by an explosion last week at International Petroleum Co.s lubricant plant in Hammond, Ind. The Aug. 2 accident occur ...

The past week brought positive financial reports from three lubricant suppliers, including the worlds leading independent. Fuchs Petrolub AG said net ...

A new hydrocracker at Totals Gonfreville, France, oil refinery has potential to produce 500,000 metric tons per year of base oil feedstock beginning n ...

Ergon Inc. disclosed yesterday that it plans to expand its naphthenic base oil plant in Vicksburg, Miss., by 7,600 barrels per day in 2008. But the co ...

U.S. posted prices for paraffinic base oils are rising again. ExxonMobil triggered the fifth round of increases for 2006 yesterday by announcing marku ...

Fuchs Petrolub AG recently announced the sale of its polishing division, Lippert-Unipol, to Jason Inc., a Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based company specializ ...

Chevron Global Lubricants announced last month that it has sold its 25-percent stake in Bulgarian lubricant marketer Prista Oil AD. The U.S. energy co ...

Afton Chemical Corp. announced last week that it has completed the first part of a two-phase expansion at its factory in Sauget, Ill. The expansion, w ...

Agricultural supplier Growmark Inc. said last week that it has acquired independent lubricant blender McCollister and Co. for an undisclosed amount. T ...

Lubricant additive companies seem to be faring better than lube blenders these days – judging, that is, by new financial reports from three of t ...

Royal Dutch Shell is proceeding with its much anticipated gas-to-liquids project in Qatar, and the project now features a giant base oil plant. Shell ...

Chevron has decided to postponea maintenance shutdown that had been scheduled for October at its base oil plant in Richmond, Calif., market sources sa ...

Nova Plama refinery, which includes Bulgarias only base oil plant, has been slated for auction at the behest of creditors for the bankrupt facility. T ...