LLK International, Russia’s biggest lubricant marketer, signed a contract for lubricants supply with the Afghan Ministry of Defense, Russian sta ...

Start-up manufacturer Voltrion has begun commercial production of its electrically polymerized esters for the lubricants and greases industry at its p ...

Exol Lubricants announced March 1 it is investing more than 2 million (U.S. $2.6 million) to redevelop its head office and manufacturing site in the U ...

Led by strong vehicle sales, Russian automotive lubricants demand is expected to grow around 3 percent annually, reaching 765,000 metric tons by 2017, ...

Essar Energy reached an agreement with its base oil customers that will allow it to shut down the base oil plant at its Stanlow, U.K., refinery within ...

Fuchs Petrolub AG reported 2012 earnings of 207 million (U.S. $273 million) on full-year sales revenue of 1.8 billion, up from 2011 earnings of 183 mi ...

Kamaz, Russias biggest truck manufacturer, is now promoting Kamaz-branded heavy-duty motor oils developed with LLK International, the countrys biggest ...

Shamrock Shipping and Trading has warned that any deals concluded by a former employee and his current employer, Feedco, may be challenged in court. I ...

French authorities gave Lubrizol the go-ahead last week to resume operations at its Rouen, France, additive plant, following a late January release of ...

Russian oil major Lukoil is building a 100,000 metric tons per year lubricants blending plant in Kazakhstan. According to an official Kazakh governme ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

MOSCOW-Russias fast growing vehicle market is causing significant changes in the country’s motor oil sales, stricter compliance by lube manufact ...

LISBON, Portugal-With API Group I base oil producers in Europe facing tumultuous times, one presenter told UEILs 2012 Congress that heavy naphthenic m ...

Russian lubricants marketer Gazprom Neft-SM expanded its sales network to Germany, Ukraine, Turkey and Iraq, the company said last week. Earlier this ...

Lukoil filed for arbitration in its 2008 acquisition of a lubricants blending plant and other assets in Turkey, fearing it might lose ground in the co ...

Lukoil is developing a 270,000 tons per year blending plant at its Volgograd refinery, trying to firmly hold its grip on the domestic and internationa ...