Royal Purple is tickled pink now that it has a corner – in the lubes market, at least – on the companys namesake color. Synthetic lubrican ...

Three more base oil suppliers announced price increases during the past week, completing a round of markups that began when ExxonMobil raised its post ...

SHANGHAI – PetroChina and Sinopec are both striving to rake profits out of Chinas rapidly growing automotive lubricant market, but they are empl ...

SHANGHAI – China is 18 months into an unprecedented economic growth spurt, which may last a total of three to five years. Consumer demand will d ...

The parent company of Kluber Lubrication last week announced the purchase of a U.S. release agents manufacturer and said it will fold the business int ...

U.S.-based consultancy Kline and Co. has established a more direct presence in China by acquiring the Shanghai office of Etonwood Pte. Ltd., its affil ...

ExxonMobil announced increases to its U.S. base oil postings Monday, triggering the second round of price hikes in the market in six weeks. Most major ...

Independent lubricant blenders and quick-lube operators are asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to require an inter-industry promotional c ...

LONDON-After three years of declining lubricant oil sales, India should see healthy growth in 2004 and 2005, according to Gulf Oil, Indias fifth large ...

A Polish oil refinery is building a new base oil plant that will produce Group II or Group III stocks, beginning late this year or early in 2005. The ...

Lubrizol Corp. announced last week that Chairman and Chief Executive Officer William G. Bares plans to retire from the latter post April 26 and that t ...

The U.S. Energy Information Agencylast weekreleasedyear-end figures on2003 base oil production, and the biggest surprise is that output of paraffinics ...

LONDON-Shell International Petroleum Co. Ltd. projects that the Shell gas-to-liquids plant in Qatar will be onstream in 2009, including base oil outpu ...

The Automotive Oil Change Association has filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission accusing Volkswagen of prescribing its own brand of ...

LONDON-Russian base oil production rose 12 percent in 2003, while domestic consumption fell. Attractive prices in the international base oil market ma ...

Great Lakes Chemical Corp. announced recently that it will raise prices for phosphate esters 7 percent, effective March 1. The increases were attribut ...

Purchasers of Group II base oils say the two newest U.S. suppliers have been welcome additions to the market. The entrance of Flint Hills Resources an ...

After seven weeks in winter hibernation APIs Lubricants Committee came sharply awake with two conference calls to develop specifications for APIs new ...

Tractor-trailer tire retreader Bandag Inc. announced Friday that it has purchased a controlling stake in Speedco Inc., a U.S. chain of quick-lubes for ...

Quaker Chemical Corp. announced yesterday that its net income for 2003 was 3.7 percent higher than in 2002, with sales revenue jumping 24 percent. Mil ...