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 ...

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 ...