The novel coronavirus pandemic took its toll around the world, putting pressure on economies and shutting down demand for many products, including lub ...

Xeriant, a start-up in the aerospace industry, has jumped into the lubricants business, too, launching a line of metal conditioners and other lubes fo ...

Italmatch Chemicals Group acquired Israel Chemicals’ RecoPhos Project Technology, boosting the group’s development of a process for production of ...

Russian oil major Gazprom Neft started construction last week on a modernization of an obsolete base oil plant at its refinery in Omsk, Western Siberi ...

Naftan wants to upgrade base oil production at its refinery in Novopolotsk, Belarus, by increasing output of API Group III stocks by 2026, according t ...

Lubricant sales in France were 2% lower in November than in the same month of 2019, according to data released recently by an industry organization, f ...

Passenger car registrations in the European Union dropped by 23.7% to 9.9 million units in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic and measures taken to ...

WD-40 Co. reported net income of $23.6 million for the quarter ending Nov. 30, up 94% from $12.2 million in the same period in 2019. The company cited ...

A watchdog of the United Kingdom’s lubricant market has lodged a complaint against a German marketer, contending that it promoted one of its engine ...

A year after its initial implementation, the European Union has extended for six more months its duty and 200,000 metric ton quota on imports of API G ...

Fuchs Group issued a preliminary report yesterday showing a 7% decline in sales revenue for 2020 and a bit smaller decline in earnings before interest ...

A December survey of lubricant suppliers in Russia showed their outlook on their business took a downturn from September, suggesting that the market w ...

The European Lubricating Grease Institute launched an effort recently to lobby against a proposal for the European Union to classify lithium salts as ...

German lubricant and aftermarket additive manufacturer Liqui Moly reported 26% higher sales in November and 38% higher sales in December, compared to ...

The European Council recommended this month that the European Union set a more ambitious goal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, endorsing ...

Nynas AB announced yesterday that its reorganization is formally expected to be completed in January after resolving an appeal filed last week by the ...

For the lubricants industry in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, 2020 was dominated by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic while also seeing many o ...

Portuguese energy company Galp said yesterday that it will close the smaller of its two refineries – a facility in Matosinhos, Portugal, that includ ...

A small API Group I base oil rerefinery opened last week in Amur Oblast in the Russian Far East, the region’s government announced.

German lubricants producer Oest Group has installed tanks with capacity to store 480,000 liters of raw materials at its blending plant in Freudenstadt ...