Lubrizol Corp.s fortunes have taken a turn for the better, spurred in part by customers pre-buying and, one analyst speculated, by an accident at a co ...

Dunlap, Mellor & Co. of Aston, Pa., a distributor of ConocoPhillips industrial lubricants, last week announced its acquisition of Fritch Lubrican ...

Chemfil Canada Ltd. announced last week that it is the new provider of chemical management services at the Chrysler Groups Windsor and Brampton, Ont., ...

ExxonMobil kicked off a new round of increases in posted prices for paraffinic base oils last week when it announced 7 to 12 cent-per-gallon increases ...

The lubricants industry is used to the idea of recycling used oil to make base oil. But making base oils from plastics? A team of researchers from Che ...

How much plant or animal oil will it take to comply with a U.S. law aimed at spurring demand for biobased lubricants and other products? Perhaps as li ...

With annual demand of more than 400,000 metric tons, Ukraine is easily the second-largest lubricant market in Eastern Europe, ranking only behind Russ ...

Greases constitute a small and sometimes neglected corner of the lubricants industry. But that corner is not too small, apparently, to warrant a means ...

Two shipments of bright stock from Petrobras hit U.S. shores during the past two months – a development that might sound like good news to a mar ...

The U.S. base oil market was quiet the past week, with many in the industry taking advantage of the Independence Day holiday for extra time off. Poste ...

Crompton Corp. and Great Lakes Chemical Corp. finalized their $2 billion merger Friday. The new company, named Chemtura Corp., is the fourth-largest p ...

Texas-based oil jobber United Fuel and Energy Corp. said Thursday that it has acquired the petroleum marketing assets of Clark Oil Co., a fuels and lu ...

Price hikes continue to wend their way through the lubricants industry, for key ingredients as well as finished products. Dow Chemical recently announ ...

Marathon Oil Corp. on Thursday completed its buyout of Ashland Inc.s stake in their Marathon Ashland Petroleum joint venture. The long-awaited $3.7 bi ...

Throughout most of the world, ExxonMobil is recognized as the market leader when it comes to setting prices for lubricating base oils. But its role co ...

U.S. base oil prices continued rising the past week, this time on the naphthenic side of the market. Pale oil producers announced hikes of 10 cents pe ...

When Omni Specialty Packaging was created in 2000, company officials planned to focus on exporting to Latin America. That strategy has not panned out, ...

MUMBAI, India–On June 16, TotalFinaElf India Ltd., wholly owned subsidiary of Total, the fourth-largest oil major worldwide, announced its plan ...

Investment firm Sun Capital Partners on Friday completed its acquisition of Crompton Corp.s Refined Products business. The newly spun-offcompany was n ...

Claiming to be the nations leading auto parts retailer, AutoZone sells a lot of motor oil and collects a lot of used oil. California says the company ...