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February 18, 2022

OQ Chemicals announced on Feb. 14 that due to supply and demand and increased raw material costs, it will increase prices for isononanoic acid, used i ...

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February 16, 2022

North Charleston, South Carolina-based Ingevity announced a general price increase effective April 1 – to exceed upwards of 50% in certain markets a ...

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February 15, 2022

The new head of Cologne, Germany-based Lanxess’ lubricants additives business will be Neelanjan Banerjee as of July 1. He has been head of India reg ...

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February 11, 2022

Japan’s sales of new automobiles declined 14% to 329,699 in January, compared to the same month last year, according to data released by the Japan A ...

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February 9, 2022

RelaDyne acquired Kent, Ohio-based The Farley Co., a distributor of lubrication and chemical products, including its own private label and Shell.  Va ...

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February 8, 2022

Vivo Energy Cote d'Ivoire, which distributes and markets Shell branded lubricants and fuels in Cote d'Ivoire in West Africa, appointed Abou Sow as its ...

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February 4, 2022

BP, Castrol and Petrolimex recently agreed to a 20-year renewal of their Vietnamese joint venture, Castrol BP Petco Co., which supplies Castrol and BP ...

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February 2, 2022

Axel appointed Serdar Firkan as North America private label sales manager. Axel, with its companies Axel Americas and Axel Royal, supplies lubricating ...

Correction

February 1, 2022

The base oil price report in the Jan. 25 issue initially reported speculation that Chevron, after last year’s purchase of Neste’s base oil busines ...

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January 28, 2022

Achala Danait was appointed as managing Director for Clariant India Ltd., which is a 100% subsidiary of Switzerland-based specialty chemicals company ...

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January 26, 2022

Westlake, Ohio-based specialty additives distributor Sea-Land Chemical Co. added two inside sales representatives – Stephen Coburn, who will manage ...

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January 25, 2022

Nynas AB announced it settled payment in full on Jan. 19 to trade creditors with claims remaining, in accordance with an agreement following the compl ...