Lubrizol Corp. announced Monday that it will close its manufacturing plant in Bromborough, England, within two years in a cost-trimming measure. The p ...

So much for precluding the development of diesel engine oil standards by individual engine manufacturers. Detroit Diesel Corp. announced a specificati ...

LubesnGreases magazine is now available free to subscribers worldwide in a digital edition. The digital edition is an exact replica of the print editi ...

All is quiet in the U.S. base oil market these days. Buyers and sellers alike say there is little activity beyond regular orders – typical for t ...

The U.S. lubricant industry will lose one of itstenured executives this quarter with the departure of Tony Soriano, president of Total Lubricants USA ...

From the first of January 2005 an historic change has been made in the United Kingdoms lubricants industry representative bodies. The British Lubrican ...

The worlds largest independent lubricant blender is still growing. Fuchs Petrolub AG announced last week that it has acquired Ovoline Lubricants, a di ...

An alliance of international auto manufacturers says it has concrete evidence that API category SA engine oils — long obsolete but still widely ...

Tongyi Beijing Petroleum Chemical Co. – the largest independent lubricant blender in China and owner of the Monarch motor oil brand – plan ...

Skiers prefer their slopes white, of course, but an operator of Colorado resorts is using polyalphaolefins to try to make its lifts greener. Anderol I ...

How can a maintenance shutdown be good news for the naphthenic base oil market? Only if the shutdown is not just for maintenance but also for capacity ...

ILSAC – the auto industrys International Lubricant Specification and Approval Committee – is not letting any grass grow under its feet. It ...

BP is shutting down its linear alphaolefin plant in Pasadena, Texas, again, and this time the company says the closure is permanent. The British oil m ...

Moving to solidify its position in the growing Asia-Pacific market, Cognis Deutschland GmbH announced last week that it has started building a factory ...

Myers Container Corp. announced this month the opening of a 60,000-square-foot steel drum factory in City of Industry, Calif. The new plant replaces a ...

News that Brazils national oil company has resumed normal operations at its largest base oil refinery has been welcomed by American buyers, some of wh ...

Ashland Inc. announced Monday that the Internal Revenue Service has decided not to give a tax ruling that the company had set as a prerequisite for it ...

Questions regarding the reliability of the Sequence VIB (“Six B”) engine test, which is supposed to demonstrate the fuel economy propertie ...

Life is about to become a lot simpler for packagers and users of grease in Europe, thanks to industry acceptance of a new standard that streamlines th ...

Petro-Canada would like to increase capacity at its Mississauga, Ontario, base oil plant and has budgeted funds in 2005 to evaluate alternatives for d ...