U.S. Senate approval for legislation to reform the Toxic Substances Control Act will have to wait until at least June 6, when the Senate reconvenes, a ...

Lubricant demand in the United States is projected to increase 0.3 percent annually to 2.4 billion gallons by 2020, according to a new study by Freedo ...

ExxonMobil and Shell each recently notified U.S. customers of modest cuts in finished lubricant prices, perhaps launching a round of markdowns that th ...

Safety-Kleens parent Clean Harbors has carved out its base oils and lubricants business under the new name Kleen Performance Products. All of rerefine ...

Steve Swedberg gives us a glimpse into the future of car engines (hint: its turbocharged!).

BOCA RATON, Fla. – Congress may finally pass reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act next week, American Chemistry Council lobbyist Rudy Unde ...

U.S. refiners continue to participate vigorously in the global base oils trade: From January to June, they sent 13.5 million barrels of the stuff out ...

While the United States remains the largest country market for finished lubricants, its overall growth is underwhelming, according to a webinar presen ...

U.S. output of lubricant base oils rose 10 percent in the first six months of this year, versus the same period a year earlier, according to data rele ...

Safety-Kleens parent company on Monday announced it will begin charging to collect used oil from all non-contract generators and will expand its appli ...

Trucking will remain the dominant mode of freight transportation in the United States over the next 11 years, with the number of Class 8 trucks projec ...

ExxonMobil plans to close the Group I base oil and wax plant at its Beaumont, Texas, refinery by the second quarter of 2016, the company confirmed to ...

Quaker Chemical Corp. acquired Spanish industrial lubes and grease company Verkol last week for $32.4 million. Quaker, of Conshohocken, Pa., said that ...

The American Chemistry Council launched a U.S. specialty chemical market volume index designed to provide a timely source of market trends for 28 mark ...

North Americas finished lubricants demand will change little, with 0.3 percent compounded annual growth from 2014 to about 2.8 billion gallons in 2019 ...

The deadline for GHS conversion in the United States and Europe has passed, but some companies have not made the transition yet. If youre in this posi ...

Californias bid to compel longer engine oil drain intervals failed, but it churned up a lot of questions in its wake, finds Steve Swedberg.

Calumet Specialty Products and MDU Resources Group marked the completion of their Dakota Prairie diesel fuels refinery this week, noting that its outp ...

The base oil capacity on Jan. 1 in the United States was 237,800 barrels per day, down from 241,500 b/d a year earlier, according to the American Fuel ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is toughening its guidelines to clarify that implied tying – language that implies to a consumer that warranty ...