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, ...

ConocoPhillips stated yesterday that it has begun selling Group III base oils at terminals on the West Coast and in the Eastern United States. The com ...

Five months later than hoped, the West Coast’s newest lubricating grease plant is fully operational. Tomlin Scientific, which has formulated and ...

A year after forming an alliance to make synthetic esters in Brazil, Cargill Industrial Oils and Lubricants and Hatco Corp. have decided to take their ...

Dana Corp. has selected two chemical managers to servicenearly 100manufacturing facilities in the United States and Canada. The automotive component m ...

German drum and intermediate bulk container manufacturer Mauser-Werke announced last week that it will merge with Italys Mamor, one of the worlds larg ...

ExxonMobil announced last week that it has agreed to participate in a public-private partnership that encourages consumers to recycle used motor oil. ...

SK E&P announced last week that it will begin terminalling Group III base oils in Los Angeles, a move welcomed by West Coast lubricant blenders wi ...

The Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association last week accused ExxonMobil of predatory pricing practices in its finished lubes business and sai ...

Departing from the stereotypical pattern of cross-border trade, a Mexican lubricant company has entered a long-term agreement to acquire a U.S. packag ...

Crude oil costs may have slipped in recent weeks, but chemical companies are still passing on price increases for materials used to make greases, hydr ...

BASF AG and Dow Chemical Co. announced last week that they plan to build a world-scale propylene oxide plant in Antwerp, Belgium. Scheduled to open in ...