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PMC Group completed the acquisition of Dow Chemicals global methyl tin stabilizers and solid lubricants business, including a manufacturing facility i ...

Filter Maker Plans Expansion

February 6, 2013

Baldwin Filters plans to break ground this spring on a new 400,000 square foot distribution center at its headquarters location in Nebraska. The comp ...

ROSENHEIM, Germany – Lubricant formulators have been pushed hard enough to improve product performance. Now theyll also have to worry about wher ...

NewMarket’s Afton Chemical additives subsidiary and Ashlands Valvoline division each reported strong increases in operating profit and revenue f ...

Robots Boost Singapore Lab

January 30, 2013

Intertek has added a robotic sample-handling system to its lubricant testing and oil condition monitoring lab in Singapore. The robotic sample handli ...

Gazprom to Oil Chinese Cars

January 30, 2013

Russian lube marketer Gazprom Neft-SM forged a technical and marketing partnership with the Chinese automaker Lifan, the energy giant said last week. ...

Chem-Trend and Kluber Lubrication India, business units of Freudenberg Group, are building a regional technical center in Mysore, India, for their spe ...

Dexron Going Beyond ATF

January 23, 2013

General Motors Powertrain is extending its Dexron brand beyond automatic transmission fluid and gear oil, and is preparing to offer hydraulic fluid, m ...

Shell on Friday announced the opening of its new 30,000 metric tons per year grease plant in Zhuhai, in Chinas Guangdong province. The grease plant, ...

A leak at Lubrizols Rouen, France, plant 120 kilometers (75 miles) northwest of Paris sent a cloud of harmless gas smelling of sweat and rotten eggs i ...

Lubricating Specialties Co. has completed the startup phase of its new blending and packaging facility in Azusa, Calif. The company also promoted Sydn ...

Slavneft-Yanos reported its Yaroslavl refinery processed 15.3 million tons of crude oil in 2012, 3.4 percent more than in 2011. But base oil productio ...

Raaj Unocal Lubricants will manufacture and market co-branded engine oils exclusively for Hindustan Motors vehicles under an agreement signed in Kolka ...

Shell Petroleum Co. Ltd. and Hyundai Oilbank yesterday confirmed plans for a new 650,000 metric tons per year API Group II base oil plant in Daesan, S ...

CNOOC Adding Group II Plant

January 16, 2013

China National Offshore Oil Co. recently signed a contract to license Chevron Lummus Globals technology for a 400,000 metric tons per year API Group I ...

Sea Horse Petrochemicals, one of Turkeys biggest lubricant marketers, recently broke ground on a new 600,000 tons per year blending plant, boasting it ...

ORourke Petroleum recently acquired Penco Oil in East Texas. Both companies are Shell lubricants distributors. Mush Khan, president and chief operati ...

Rosneft Starts 2013 Off Big

January 16, 2013

Rosneft, one of Russia’s biggest lubricants marketers, increased its supply of automotive lubricants in 2012 and recently introduced two key pro ...

Additive maker R.T. Vanderbilt Co. yesterday announced a new organization structure, and that it plans to complete the $30 million expansion of its Mu ...

The troubles over the Mizushima plant continue to build for Japanese petroleum company JX Nippon. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) ...