ConocoPhillips last week launched a new line of white oils and food-grade lubricants to be marketed under its Conoco, Phillips 66 and 76 brand names. ...

Naphthenic base oil supplier San Joaquin Refining confirmed yesterday that it briefly imposed allocations on sales of 100 pale oil last week. The Cali ...

U.S. polyethylene prices will be high and tight, averaging over 60 cents per pound for the next 18 months, an industry consultant told last weeks meet ...

German packaging supplier Mauser Group announced last week that it has reached an agreement to acquire Russell-Stanley Holdings Inc., one of the large ...

Shrader Tire and Oil Co. has opened a new 200,000 sq. ft. lubricant and tire distribution center to meet its growing markets in Michigan, the company ...

The U.S. base oil market completed its latest round of price hikes the past week. Observers warned that postings could climb further as fuel prices su ...

Hurricane Katrina laid some punches on the U.S. lubricant industry as it barreled ashore Monday. Chevron Oronites main additive plant in the United St ...

Hatco Corp. and Celanese Chemicals on Thursday announced plans to close their German joint venture Estech GmbH, a three-year-old manufacturer of polyo ...

Struggling to keep pace with rising costs, lubricant marketers in the United States are pushing through another round of price hikes for finished prod ...

Neste Oil Corp. announced Thursday that it has agreed to form a joint venture with Bahrain Petroleum Co. to build a Group III base oil plant in the ti ...

The lubricant additive market is roiling this month after a declaration by Chevron Oronite Co. that it currently cannot meet contractual supply obliga ...

In the face of challenges presented by rising costs of petroleum products, Fuchs Petrolub AG reported a 34-percent jump in its profit for the first ha ...

Avatar Corp. is nearly tripling the size of its lubricant and specialty release agent manufacturing facilities in University Park, Ill., with a $5 mil ...

After stutter-stepping for a week, paraffinic base oil suppliers in the United States this week followed Motiva in the latest round of price hikes. Ex ...

The Chrysler Group on Monday announced that it will begin licensing its trademarked automatic transmission fluid specification, ATF+4, for commercial ...

The National Rifle Association has asked members to boycott ConocoPhillips products, including gasoline and lubricants,in response to the energy compa ...

At first glance, the latest report on U.S. lubricant sales volumes from the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association looks discouraging: a 2.9 ...

A quiet U.S. base oil market received a jolt this week, or at least a mild bump, with news that the Marathon-Ashland Petroleum refinery in Catlettsbur ...

Canadian chemical supplier Chemtrade Logistics Income Fund this month acquired Peak Chemical LLC, one of two North American suppliers of a key compone ...

With the ink barely dry on the latest round of price hikes, Motiva dropped a bomb on the U.S. base oil market yesterday, announcing additional markups ...