U.S. base oil exports into Mexico are up, market sources say, due apparently to operational problems at that countrys lone base oil plant. Otherwise t ...

HOUSTON – Traditionally a net exporter of base oils, the United States in the past two years has moved closer to balance in the volumes it impor ...

HOUSTON – The next passenger car motor oil upgrade will leave the U.S. base oil market with a 10,000-barrel-per-day deficit of API Group II base ...

DANA POINT, Calif. — Lubricating grease manufacturing is an energy-intensive, multi-phase effort, beginning with a tricky saponification step in ...

Fuchs Petrolub AG announced Monday that its profit through the first nine months of 2004 was up 31.7 percent from the same period of last year, thanks ...

Nynas USA yesterday denied rumors that production at the Valero naphthenic base oil plant in Three Rivers, Texas, has been hampered since completion o ...

To help airlines slash the number of greases they use, an inter-industry committee has finished developing a standard for general purpose airframe gre ...

China is drawing a lot of attention these days as a growth opportunity for lubricant marketers. But a new study says prospects are also good on the op ...

Milacron Inc. reported last week that earnings from its industrial fluids business fell 42 percent during the third quarter as rising raw materials co ...

Posted prices for paraffinic base oils in the United States were unchanged this week. The market was relatively quiet, with many buyers and sellers as ...

Shell Marine Products (US) Co. will receive a big – and potentially huge – contract to provide lubricants and related services to the agen ...

Earnings reports out the past week spotlighted growing revenue in the lubricant additives and lube industries. That did not necessarily translate into ...

Petronas apparently intends to make a mark with its first step into the base oil business. According to an announcement by ExxonMobil, Malaysias natio ...

HDPE has long been the plastic of choice for lubricant packagers. Now a Toronto-area start-up is challenging that practice by specializing in bottles ...

Paraffinic and naphthenic base oil prices rose again in the United States the past week, even as falling crude oil costs offered prospects that the lo ...

Lubricant sales volumes in the United States fell 3.6 percent in 2003, according to the latest annual report from the National Petrochemical and Refin ...

Sales and marketing managers who work for U.S. lubricant manufacturing companies earn an average of nearly $105,000 a year, up 13 percent from 2002 an ...

A sagging lubricant market did little to hold back Valvoline during its recently completed fiscal year. Parent company Ashland Inc. reported Monday th ...

The Royal Dutch/Shell Group last month closed its base oil plant in Geelong, Australia, leaving the continent with just one domestic base oil producer ...

Paraffinic base oils in the United States appear to have started their eighth round of price hikes in 2004. Motiva triggered the latest cycle, announc ...