Cognis Deutschland GmbH has opened a facility in Jacarei, Brazil, to produce polyol ester refrigeration fluids. Officials said the German specialty ch ...

Container manufacturer BWAY Corp. has reached an agreement to buy North American Packaging Corp., the companies announced last week. Nampac claims to ...

Lubrizol Corp. announced last week that it has closed on its $1.8 billion acquisition of chemical maker Noveon International Inc. The Wickliffe, Ohio, ...

Crude oil prices dropped sharply since last week – enough, said some observers, to ease the threat of further price hikes for base oils. The 12- ...

Lubrizol Corp. has introduced an online learning site aimed at helping sales people do a better job of peddling lubricants. Named K2M, the program tri ...

Shareholders of Ethyl Corp. last week approved a restructuring plan that calls for the companys Petroleum Additives business to be renamed Afton Chemi ...

Lubrizol Corp. disclosed yesterday that President and Chief Executive Officer James L. Hambrick has been diagnosed with testicular cancer and was to b ...

U.S. base oil suppliers said this week that further price hikes are likely as crude oil costs rose even higher in the face of an already tight market. ...

Castrol Consumer North American confirmed last week that it will offer API-licensed GF-4 motor oils beginning Aug. 2, immediately after the American P ...

TORONTO – Ciba Specialty Chemicals has reached an exclusive agreement to market dibasic acid corrosion inhibitors produced at a new plant built ...

Arizona Chemical Co. announced last week that it will expand its plant in Dover, Ohio, and close another in Picayune, Miss., in an effort to streamlin ...

Two European lubricant suppliers reported sizable improvements in their first quarter financial performance. Germanys Fuchs Petrolub AG said its net i ...

ExxonMobil confirmed yesterday that it is limiting some base oil customers from purchasing more than previously projected volumes. The company attribu ...

A variety of factors have been cited as contributing to the elevated level of base oil prices the past year and a half – cost of crude oil, the ...

Finnish refiner Fortum announced this week an expansion that will boost capacity at its Porvoo, Finland, base oil plant by 30,000 metric tons per year ...

Lubricant and fluid supplier Acculube announced last week that it has acquired OEM Fluid Management, a provider of fluid management services. Terms of ...

Graham Packaging Holdings Co. reported last week that its operating income for the first quarter rose 17 percent from the same period of 2003, an anno ...

Sunoco said it is continuing efforts to repair a deasphalting unit damaged by a March 23 fire at its Tulsa, Okla., refinery. The company declined to d ...

After more than a year of often leisurely debate over technical specifications, the American Petroleum Institute’s Lubricants Committee is lungi ...

Ethyl Corp. announced May 5 that it plans to rename its Petroleum Additives business Afton Chemical Corp. following a restructuring that it hopes to h ...