Prices for lubricant additives rose sharply over the past year. In that respect, they fit in perfectly with most inputs for lubricant blenders. Base o ...

Barge traffic on a 40-mile stretch of the Ohio River was halted this week, cutting off a conduit of transportation for lubricant blenders and numerous ...

Valvolines operating income fell 10 percent during the quarter ended Dec. 31 compared to the same quarter of 2003, led by a drop in lubricant sales vo ...

Apparently it is too soon to declare a rebound for the U.S. lubricant industry, at least according to the latest sales data from the National Petroche ...

Taiwans Chinese Petroleum Corp. isjoining thegrowing list of Pacific Rim refiners vowing to build capacity for premium base oils. The company said thi ...

The highly competitive, $3.4 billion U.S. lubricant market has a new entry with the potential to upend the sales volume assumptions it has operated un ...

Barge traffic restrictions on the upper reaches of the Ohio River were lifted Monday, to the relief of lubricant blenders who depend upon the river fo ...

Crompton Corp. announced last week that it expects to enter a $97.1 million agreement to settle class action lawsuits filed by three groups of custome ...

If you are itching to unload opinions about unlicensed motor oils, if you have ideas about the fuel economy requirements of the next passenger car mot ...

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 ...