Russia is the worlds third-largest lubricant market, but a new study predicts it will begin shrinking within the next few years. The Moscow firm Info ...

Base oil prices in the United States are feeling pressure from two forces pushing in opposing directions – unusually high margins that are press ...

Angus Chemical and Anderol recently announced new distribution arrangements, while Stoney Creek Technologies named a new sales and marketing agent. An ...

The European Union has added lubricants to the list of products eligible to carry its Eco-label, establishing the first regionwide program to identify ...

More than a year after undertaking its ethics initiative, the Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association has revised its Code of Ethics and has m ...

After sagging over the past year, base oil exports out of Europe appear to have picked up the past couple months. Still, observers say the rebound has ...

Crompton Corp. and Great Lakes Chemical Corp. announced last week that they plan to adopt the name Chemtura Corp. following the completion of their pr ...

Fuchs Petrolub AG on Friday reported that its profit for the first quarter of 2005 increased 42.4 percent from the same period of 2004, an improvement ...

EDINBURGH – Lubricant sales volumes in the European Union declined 3.3 percent in the first nine months of 2004, compared to the same period of ...

HOUSTON – APIs 2004 engine oil Aftermarket Audit Program uncovered significant nonconformance by two licensees out of 529 total license holders, ...

As Eastern Europe moves westward in a political sense, Western manufacturers are moving eastward in a physical sense. And that spells opportunity for ...

Buyers and sellers said the U.S. base oil market remains in a period of relative calm after a raucous runup in prices in March and April. Posted price ...

Lubricant supplier Acrotech Industries said it recently acquired Panef Corp., a Milwaukee-based packager of oils and greases. Acrotech said it was att ...

Valvoline announced last week that it has agreed to buy Car Brite, a line of automotive reconditioning products, for an undisclosed amount. Valvoline ...

ChevronTexaco announced Monday that it has changed its name to Chevron Corp., reverting to an identity used before the 2001 merger of Chevron and Texa ...

Higher raw material costs ate away at profits of two metalworking fluid suppliers during the first quarter of 2005. Quaker Chemical Corp. said last we ...

Dover Chemical Corp. has offered to buy the Pioneer Companies chlorinated paraffins plant in Cornwall, Ontario, according to plant employees. If compl ...

Motiva told customers this week that it will postpone a maintenance turnaround that had been scheduled for June at its giant Port Arthur, Texas, base ...

Paradigm Media Group is moving ahead with its plan to spotlight lubricants on the small screen, but it will have to do so without help from the Indepe ...

The Marathon Ashland Petroleum base oil plant in Catlettsburg, Ky., seems likely to become the sole property of Marathon Oil Corp., now that MAPs owne ...