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 ...

Add another name to the growing list of Pacific Rim companies hurrying to enter the premium base oil market. Formosa Petrochemical Corp. told Lube Rep ...

Saudi Aramco this week denied news reports that it is considering a deal to sell part of its stake in S-Oil Corp. to a South Korean conglomerate. An A ...

The new year will begin with new faces leading several of the lubricant industrys largest companies. Additive suppliers Infineum and Lubrizol have a n ...

Petro-Canada announced last month that it has entered contracts with two European distributors – one to carry industrial lubricants in Italy, th ...

It appearsthat Marathon Ashland Petroleums Group I base oil plant in Catlettsburg, Ky., will not become a wholly-owned asset of Marathon during the fi ...

The American Petroleum Institute has updated its Motor Oil Guide, its primary document for educating consumers about engine oils, to include its lates ...

Shell Deutschland Oil plans to cease base oil production at the smaller of two base oil plants outside Hamburg, Germany, next year as part of a plan t ...

Bijur Lubrication Group announced Monday that it has acquired another lubrication system manufacturer, the British company Denco Lubrication Ltd. Biju ...

The lubricant and lubricant additive markets are closing out 2004 on the same note that has characterized much of the year – rising prices. Arke ...

The winter lull appears to be settling over the U.S. base oil market, and marketers say the slowdown is especially welcome this year. Sellers say they ...

HOUSTON — At its Nov. 8 meeting here, members of the American Petroleum Institute’s influential Lubricants Committee reviewed progress tow ...