A new consultants report predicts the North American lubricant industry will face a shortage of Group II base stocks within four years. As a result, i ...

Thanks to changing lubricant standards, two new studies say, the wax industry is expected to continue losing traditional sources of supply, even as de ...

U.S. base oil suppliers appear to have received an early holiday present in recent weeks: unusually attractive prices for export. Export prices are es ...

The next passenger car motor oil upgrade is on its home stretch toward adoption, but independent lubricant blenders still arent satisfied with it. The ...

Third-quarter lubricant sales volume in the United States dropped 4.3 percent from the same period of 2002, according to the latest statistics from th ...

U.S.-based Master Chemical Corp. announced last month the opening of a 20,000-square-foot facility in China where it will manufacture metalworking flu ...

When it comes to monitoring base oil production costs, crude oil is usually the ingredient that people watch most. This week, however, that attention ...

An Illinois congressman asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission last week to investigate whether ExxonMobil is using its power in the base oil market ...

Lubrizol Corp. has purchased several small companies in the past few years, but officials say the company is bent on making more and bigger acquisitio ...

After observing the success of a similar case in the United States, a Canadian man has filed a lawsuit claiming Mercedes-Benz set motorists up for eng ...

According to the calendar, winter does not officially start until Dec. 22, but some U.S. base oil suppliers say they have seen signs that the industry ...

The market for metalworking fluids in Asia-Pacific is rosy, according to a new consultant study, even if the regions industrial anchor continues to dr ...

Fuchs Petrolub AG announced yesterday that it has agreed to buy the France-based industrial oils business of American systems manufacturer Parker Hann ...

Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. announced it is preparing to commercialize a mid-viscosity polyalphaolefin designed to make life easier for formulators ...

Producers of Group II-plus base oils lowered posted prices the past week, moves viewed as reaction to competition by Group III stocks from South Korea ...

The Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission last week, accusing DaimlerChrysler Corp. ...

Lubricant sales volumes in the United States dropped 0.4 percent in 2002, falling to the lowest level in a decade, according to the latest report from ...

Even with the GF-4 passenger car engine oil upgrade way into the homestretch, the latest meeting of the ILSAC/Oil committee in Romulus, Mich., attract ...

A subsidiary of Cargill Inc. and Hatco Corp. parent company Kaufman Holdings said Monday that they have broken ground on a synthetic ester plant being ...

Subsidiaries of Koch Industries Inc. have agreed to buy DuPonts Textiles & Interiors subsidiary for $4.4 billion, the companies announced Monday. ...