Bel-Ray Co. has contracted two companies to serve as exclusive distributors of its industrial lubricants in central and northern Europe. H. Costenoble ...

Lubricant consumption is shifting to higher quality products around the world, but overall volume growth is generally found only in developing countri ...

Hitching its cart to Asias steadily growing lubricant market, Degussa AG said it will build a 10 million plant in Singapore for its Specialty Acrylics ...

LONDON – Despite an abundance of base oil manufacturing capacity, the past two years have felt awfully snug to base oil buyers worldwide. This i ...

The market for bright stock in the United States remains exceptionally tight – in part, reportedly, because of a drop off in imports from Brazil ...

Graco Inc., a manufacturer of lubricating equipment, has acquired dispenser equipment manufacturers Gusmer Corp. and Gusmer Europe S.L. from affiliate ...

Goldschmidt Chemical Corp.s Industrial Specialties business raised North American prices for all organic surfactants and organomodified siloxanes effe ...

Milacron Inc. reported Monday that operating earnings for its Industrial Fluids business fell 29 percent in 2004, due to increased raw materials costs ...

Dow Chemical Co. announced last week that it will build an integrated world-class specialty alkanolamine plant in Plaquemine, La., to replace existing ...

Ashland Inc. and Marathon Oil Corp. have not given up on their plan for the former to divest its stake in their Marathon Ashland Petroleum joint ventu ...

The more Kline and Co. analyzes demand and supply trends for Group II base oils, the less it thinks lube blenders need to worry. The lubricant market ...

The latest round of earnings reports are beginning to march out, confirming what many already know: Lubricant additive demand continued strong, and so ...

Chevron Oronite Co. said it will close a manufacturing plant in Brazil in an effort to streamline its business. In its place the company will set up a ...

The packaging business appears to be looking up, if investments in machinery offer any guidance. A new study by a market research company concludes th ...

Venezuelas national oil company moved in the past few days to soften statements by President Hugo Chavez last week that it had decided to sell refiner ...

LubesnGreases Magazines February issue is now available online, free to readers worldwide. Highlights include U.S. base oil imports and exports; PAOs ...

The U.S. base oil market had good news on the supply and transportation fronts this week. Ergons Vicksburg, Miss., naphthenic plant emerged a week ear ...

PMC Group said last month thatits specialty chemical subsidiary Crystal has bought ExxonMobil’s North American wax emulsion business. PMC offici ...

A subsidiary of Illinois Tool Works announced last week that it has boughtWynn Oil Company from manufacturing giant Parker Hannifin Corp.Wynn manufact ...

Construction of Polands first premium base oil plant has come to a halt – the result of bankruptcy, triggered by the financing needed to pay for ...