Greases can offer advantages over gear oils in helping to prevent wear of precision reducers – known as RV reducers or robot joints – an official ...

Royal Dutch Shell has accelerated its timeline for reducing the crude oil throughput capacity of its refinery on Singapore’s Pulau Bukom island. Tha ...

Petrobras on Tuesday extended until the end of July the negotiations completion deadline for the sale of a refinery with a naphthenic base oil plant i ...

Uzbek authorities last week announced the government’s intention to sell the Fergana Oil Refinery LLC, the second-largest refining complex in the co ...

Poland consumed almost 220,000 metric tons of lubricants in 2020, down 7% from the year before due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an oil indus ...

Spain’s lubricant consumption dropped 13% to 397,074 metric tons in 2020, according to Sigaus, a non-profit entity that manages used lubricants in t ...

Finished lubricants consumption in Japan grew 15% year-to-year in March, the third month in the past four that output exceeded the corresponding month ...

For the quarter ending March 31, MJL Bangladesh Ltd. and Pakistan’s Hi-Tech Lubricants both reported higher profit and sales. Hi-Tech noted that its ...

For the fiscal year ending March 31, India’s domestic automotive sales declined for all segments, most sharply in the two-wheeler and three-wheeler ...

Gerdau, Brazil’s largest steel producer, has launched a new company, Gerdau Graphene, to develop products, including lubricants, based on graphene a ...

Disrupted by severe cold weather in Texas, base oil production in the United States fell back in February following two months of matching levels that ...

The European Automobile Manufacturers Association published a long-awaited update to its passenger car engine oil specifications on April 30 – more ...

The first quarter of 2021 was bullish for two of the world’s largest lubricant suppliers, BP’s Castrol unit and Fuchs Petrolub SE. Castrol doubled ...

The Chinese government announced on April 25 that the parts of its China VI emission standard applying to heavy diesel vehicles will be implemented na ...

Castrol India and South Korean refiner S-Oil both reported large increases in profits and revenue for the quarter ending March 31, compared to the sam ...

The parent company of SK Lubricants on Wednesday announced an agreement to sell 40% of the business to a South Korean private equity firm for a bit le ...

Canadian National Railway offered to buy Kansas City Southern railway for $33.7 billion last week, exceeding the $29 billion offer from rival Canadian ...

Rounding out a year since COVID-19 struck its home market, Afton Chemical continued to run behind pre-pandemic performance, posting a double-digit yea ...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering a 2019 action that sought to end a policy allowing California to regulate motor veh ...

Researchers at an Austrian university have found lubricating properties in a two-dimensional nanomaterial, mXene, they announced last week. The materi ...