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Briefly Noted

June 10, 2015

Mike Shannon, executive vice president of global operations at metalworking and hydraulic fluids supplier Houghton International and president of Houg ...

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June 9, 2015

Shell Lubricants opened a downstream commercial hub and training center in Shanghai, China, last week, which includes positions selling lubricants and ...

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June 3, 2015

Troy Corp. signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ashlands industrial biocides business, including biocides used in metalworking fluids, for an undi ...

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June 2, 2015

Reporting its full-year earnings, Indian Oil Corp., Indias leading lubricant supplier, said its Servo brands market share rose 0.6 percent in 2014, wi ...

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May 27, 2015

Russian Gazpromneft-Lubricants opened its first lube change station in Kazakhstan, part of its G-Energy Service car maintenance stations network, now ...

Publisher’s Note

May 27, 2015

The Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers honored LNGs founder and former publisher Nancy DeMarco on May 18 at its Annual Meeting and Exhi ...

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May 26, 2015

SK Lubricants has entered a licensing agreement to supply its Zic-branded lubricants to Rabigh First Lubricants Co. for sale in Saudi Arabia. Allchem ...

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May 20, 2015

Oxea announced May 8 that it lifted a force majeure declared March 9 for production of trimethylolpropane, used in production of synthetic lubricants, ...

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May 19, 2015

Chinese state-owned Sinopec Lubricant Co. will supply grease to and develop compressor oils with German compressor manufacturer Burckhardt Compression ...

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May 6, 2015

BTC will distribute parent company BASFs lubricant oil additives, base stocks and metalworking fluids components in Northern and Central Europe effect ...

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May 5, 2015

ExxonMobil appointed TAT Petroleum Pte., of Singapore, to distribute Mobil lubricants in Vietnam. Indias Tide Water Oil Co. selected Boss Lubricants a ...

Clarification

April 29, 2015

Last weeks article EPA: Chlorinated Paraffins Must Go should have made clear that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency aims to eliminate only medi ...

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April 22, 2015

North American Lubricants of Scottsdale, Ariz., appointed Aaron Read interim president, succeeding Todd Peterson, who resigned to pursue other opportu ...

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April 21, 2015

United Arab Emirates-based Gulf Petrochem last week changed the name of newly acquired Indian lubricant producer, Sah Petroleums to GP Petroleums Ltd. ...

Correction

April 21, 2015

An article in last weeks issue incorrectly identified the location of a Singapore base oil plant that ExxonMobil recently expanded. The expanded API G ...

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April 15, 2015

Clean Harbors closed on its $85 million acquisition of Nuverra Environmental Solutions used motor oil collector subsidiary Thermo Fluids, of Scottsdal ...

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April 14, 2015

Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd. will develop and sell co-branded lubricants with construction maker Schwing Stetter India, in addition to their factory ...

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April 8, 2015

Transformer oil rerefiner Hydrodec acquired the business and assets of Eco-Oil International and its subsidiaries, along with the Eco-Oil trade name, ...

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April 7, 2015

Shell Lubricants India has launched a new Rimula-branded 10W-30 diesel engine oil exclusively for Tata Motors commercial vehicles. Chevron named Calte ...

Calumet Specialty Products Partners L.P. hired Bill Hatch, a former chief operating executive for Citgo Petroleum Corp., as interim CEO. The company p ...