BASF this month opened a new plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany, with capacity to make 15,000 metric tons of isopropanolamines per year. Among other appli ...

The U.S. base oil market was quiet the past week, with much of the industry taking a few days off for the Thanksgiving holiday. Posted prices for para ...

Sister companies Kluber Lubrication Munchen KG and Chem-Trend are joining the flock of lubricant manufacturers building factories in China, with paren ...

Valvoline was among the large lubricant companies that imposed sales allocations in the wake of this years hurricanes, but distributors say impact was ...

Koch Industries Inc. has agreed to buy paper products and chemicals supplier Georgia-Pacific Corp. for $21 billion, the companies announced last week. ...

Indian oleochemicals manufacturer VVF Ltd. has entered the U.S. market by establishing a sales office in Freehold, N.J. The company, which sells veget ...

For the past two years, refiners in much of the world have sacrificed base oil production by diverting feedstocks to fuels, which offered exceptionall ...

HOUSTON – Base oil production in China has for decades belonged almost exclusively to PetroChina and Sinopec, two of the communist nations large ...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — ASTM’s Heavy Duty Engine Oil Classification Panel, which is responsible for moving forward the new PC-10 heavy-duty e ...

Italian lubricant supplier FL Selenia SpA is changing hands again. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. has agreed to buy it from Vestar Capital Partners ...

HOUSTON- The American Petroleum Institutes Lubricants Committee last week heard the outcome of its 2004 engine oil aftermarket audit program, which ch ...

After a three-year slump, the U.S. lubricant industry rebounded in 2004 with sales volumes rising 1.8 percent, the National Petrochemical and Refiners ...

Fuchs Petrolub AG and Afton Chemical Corp. both posted bumper third quarter performances despite continuing pressure from rising raw material costs. F ...

Long-awaited stability of crude oil prices appears to have brought the same to the U.S. base oil market. Posted prices for paraffinic stocks are going ...

Intertek Caleb Bretts share of the lubricant testing market will grow significantly when its $34.5 million purchase of PerkinElmers Automotive Researc ...

Safety-Kleen Systems Inc. said recently that it has landed an exclusive contract to collect used motor oil generated by the United States Postal Servi ...

Quaker Chemical Corp. said last week that third quarter net income jumped 83 percent from the same period of 2004, thanks primarily to increases in pr ...

Brazil’s lubricants market saw 10 percent growth in consumption rates for 2004, outpacing the economic juggernauts of China and India for the ye ...

ExxonMobils Beaumont, Texas, base oil plant still has not returned to operation since Septembers Hurricane Rita, market sources say, and now does not ...

Without knowing quite how, U.S. lubricant blenders say they appear to be emerging unscathed from the massive disruption in base oil supply caused by H ...