Oil giant Shell signed an agreement to sell its retail and lubricant businesses in Russia to privately owned Lukoil, the largest lubricant marketer an ...

Evonik announced last week that it will exit its Performance Materials business unit, which supplies some intermediate chemicals used to make lubrican ...

The European Automobile Manufacturers Association published this month an update to its ACEA Engine Oil Sequences for heavy-duty engines, providing in ...

Shell is negotiating with an unidentified party to sell its lubricant blending plant in Torzhok, Russia, along with its network of fuel stations in th ...

The European Union announced last week firm plans to impose an embargo on Russian oil and refined products, including base oils and lubricants, by the ...

German lubricant maker Fuchs Petrolub SE posted a first-quarter 6% decline in earnings after tax and a 16% increase in sales, citing several factors f ...

German oleochemical supplier Peter Greven GmbH announced last week that it has expanded ester production capacity at its factory in Bad Muenstereifel, ...

After a pandemic-induced recession in 2020, lubricant demand in Poland rebounded last year as passenger cars returned to the road and motorists resume ...

German chemicals distributor Oqema acquired the Orosolv Group, a French distributor of lubricants and other products, to expand and develop its busine ...

A French association of lubricant suppliers this month announced the formation of Cyclevia, a nonprofit organization tasked with helping to increase t ...

France’s finished lubricant consumption declined to 42,319 metric tons in February, a 7% decline from the same month last year, according to data re ...

Seven weeks into Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the number of foreign businesses vowing to leave Russia or scale back there continues to grow ...

Specialty chemical supplier Perstorp AB will build a new plant at an existing site in Sweden to bring an additional 70,000 metric tons per year of car ...

The effective date is approaching for a European Union ban on purchases from government-controlled Russian oil companies, and industry observers say i ...

Evonik said March 30 that it has invested at least €10 million to increase capacity for isobutene derivatives by more than 50 percent at its site in ...

Two years after the completion of Brexit, how are lubricant industry players in the United Kingdom faring?

Mol-Lub is expanding its grease factory in Hungary in order to add calcium sulfonate complex greases to its product portfolio. Officials said demand f ...

Shell has vowed to close its lubricant business along with other operations in Russia to protest that country’s invasion of Ukraine. TotalEnergies s ...

Brussels, Belgium-based Solvay announced last week it was reviewing plans to separate the company into two independent publicly traded companies – E ...

Fuchs Petrolub SE, the world’s largest independent lubricant supplier, reported a 15% increase in profits after tax in 2021 – reflecting recovery ...