NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Handheld outdoor power equipment sales are around $15 billion in the U.S., which allows for a correspondingly large – b ...

Lubrication equipment maker Gits Manufacturing announced last week that it will lay off 78 employees by June 2014 and move its Iowa production to Mexi ...

Swiss lubricant company Strub opened a subsidiary in Russia to expand its operation in the region, the company said last week. The company’s of ...

Pinto Energy on Monday said it plans to begin building a 2,800 barrels per day gas-to-liquids plant in Ashtabula, Ohio, in the first half of 2014, wit ...

U.S. quick lubes data showed a higher average daily number of oil changes but lower average total cars per day, along with an uptick in yearly sales p ...

Gazprom Neft and Chevron recently signed an agreement to widen the sales network of Texaco branded marine oils in the Baltic region. Produced by Gazp ...

ATIEL, the European lubricants industrys technical association, released a new version of its Code of Practice, which provides guidance for developers ...

A new Chinese-run refinery expected to start up by Oct. 20 in Kyrgyzstan will produce base oil by 2014, the countrys energy minister said. The $300 m ...

Transformer oil rerefiner Hydrodec Group acquired used lube oil collector OSS for 4.7 million (U.S. $6.3 million), securing feedstock for a planned pi ...

A Michigan agency on Sept. 12 announced stop-use and stop-removal orders for motor oils and transmission fluids from City Petroleum of Dearborn and St ...

The first licensing date for GF-6, the next passenger car engine oil upgrade, has been delayed until January 2017, according to several industry sourc ...

Shell signed a memorandum of understanding to supply lubricants to Geely Motors, the Russian marketer of Chinese cars, the oil major said last week. ...

South Korean refiner Hyundai Oilbank plans to produce 180,000 barrels of Xteer brand engine oil by 2014 to sell at home and abroad, according to a Sep ...

Base oil production at U.S. refineries reached 27.8 million barrels in the first six months of this year, slumping 5 percent from the 29.3 million bar ...

Heartland Automotive Services, the largest U.S. Jiffy Lube franchisee, appointed Jim Marcum as interim CEO and formed a new Southeast division followi ...

The Russian Ministry of Energy proposed a bill for collection and treatment of waste lubricants, according to its Aug. 13 post in the state portal for ...

The European Commission has approved Nynas proposal to acquire the base oil production units at Shells Harburg refinery in Hamburg, Germany, an acquis ...

ExxonMobil and Chevron informed U.S. customers of finished lubricant price hikes that take effect in early October, following an earlier markup by She ...

Haver Filling Systems is expanding its warehouse in Conyers, Ga., to increase production capacity so it can meet growing demand for its German-enginee ...

Lubricants production in Russia is expected to grow 2 to 3 percent by 2016, driven by automotive and industrial growth, introduction of higher quality ...