Why would two distinct GF-4 passenger car motor oils – which earlier had passed the rigorous Sequence VIB (Six B) engine test for fuel economy & ...

China is the lubricant industrys new frontier, and D.A. Stuart Co. is expanding there by tying up with a maker of cutting edges. The American industri ...

Crompton Corp. announced yesterday that it plans to invest in a new alkylated diphenylamine antioxidant unit at its factory in Geismar, La., the fourt ...

U.S. naphthenic base oil suppliers completed another round of price hikes this week. Observers said it remains a sellers market, with supply still tig ...

Meeting in Detroit last week, ILSAC/Oil, the inter-industry committee responsible for gasoline engine oil upgrades, kicked off planning for the next o ...

The sagging U.S. lubricant market may have finally reached bottom. Sales during the second quarter increased 3 percent from the same period of 2003, a ...

Its one thing to go under the hood to try to pinpoint a cars malfunction. Imagine trying to troubleshoot on a space-age dune buggy from 75 million mil ...

ChevronTexaco completed the latest round of price hikes for paraffinic base oils last week, but market observers said further increases are likely  ...

Ford Motor Co. says it is seeking greater assurance that automatic transmission fluids bearing its Mercon trademark are worthy to bear its seal of app ...

A British agency concluded last month that grease may have played a role in four recent incidents in which landing gear on commercial planes operated ...

Everyone notices that gasoline prices are high, and Calumet Lubricants Co. is no exception. Fuels are profitable enough these days that the company ha ...

Competitive Technologies Inc. announced last week that it has granted EIB Group Inc. a nonexclusive license in the United States to use its lubricant ...

Base oil prices in the United States have been climbing all year, and there are no signs of their rise abating. To the contrary, paraffinic postings u ...

Plant managers who work for U.S. lubricant manufacturing companies are paid an average $94,775 a year, and their counterparts at lube distributors $70 ...

Lubricant demand in the United States is forecast to grow less than 1 percent per year for the next five years, according to a study from the Freedoni ...

After a short respite, record crude oil prices are back, and that is bad news for base oil buyers. Crude prices rose above $50 per barrel for the firs ...

Valvoline significantly increased its share of oil changes performed by independent quick lubes, according to results of a survey conducted by an indu ...

The U.S. grease market has been shrinking for years, but one of its biggest suppliers is sprouting plants left and right. Chemtool Inc. last week anno ...

Several more chemical companies announced price increases the past week for additives used in the lubricant industry. Sources said additive costs may ...

ConocoPhillips has entered an agreement to market a longwall mining fluid produced by Quaker Chemical, the companies announced last week. The product, ...