Colorado adopted Californias low-emissions vehicle standards last week, becoming the latest state to pass measures to reduce greenhouse gases and avoi ...

The ongoing trade war between the United States and China has left the lubricant industry in the crossfire, and some market players are shifting their ...

A HollyFrontier subsidiary will acquire Sonneborn from private equity firm One Equity Partners for $655 million cash under an agreement announced yest ...

Lubricant distributor Lube-Tech opened an expansion of its engine testing facility in Golden Valley, Minnesota, this week. The company uses the facili ...

Reports that ExxonMobil and a second producer would increase posted prices circulated in the market, with steeper crude oil and feedstock costs mentio ...

North Americas lubricant market is expected to inch up from 2.9 billion gallons in 2017 to 3 billion gallons by 2020, with industrial oils continuing ...

Efforts to improve fuel economy and reduce emissions will continue pushing United States engine oils towards lower viscosities while gradually stimula ...

As Moscow faces new constraints on its hydrocarbons industry, the countrys lubricants business could also be damaged. To what extent is up for debate.

U.S. base oil refiners worked in high gear during the first half of 2018, producing nearly 34 million barrels of base stocks - the highest total in at ...

Repsol announced Monday an agreement to acquire 40 percent of lubricant distributor Bardahl de Mexico, which will enable the Spanish energy company to ...

Lanxess Corp. said sales revenue from its Additives business are rising since its acquisition of Chemtura in the spring of 2017, the company said in a ...

Automotive lubricant demand in Canada is expected to fall roughly 5 percent from 390,000 metric tons in 2016 to 370,000 tons in 2021, thanks to length ...

Starburst or none, Toyota is recommending SAE 0W-16 for the 2018 Camry. Will others in the North American market follow suit before GF-6 debuts?

Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P. said on Monday that it acquired Biosynthetic Technologies, a startup that converts sustainable plant oils in ...

Lubricant industry insiders predicted an EPA decision to ditch ambitious fuel economy targets may slow the shift toward 0W engine oils but wont revers ...

The next big, official push toward lower-viscosity passenger car motor oils in North America may still be several years off, but Toyota has already st ...

The American Petroleum Institute advised yesterday that May 1 will be the first licensing date for API SN Plus, the supplemental classification for pa ...

Axel Christiernsson announced Monday its acquisition of Royal Manufacturing, a deal that will triple Axels grease production capacity in the United St ...

Private equity firm Wynnchurch Capital acquired do-it-for-me oil change giant Heartland Automotive Services Inc. for $1.3 billion, the companies annou ...

The Freedonia Group and Kline and Co. agree about the biggest factors that will affect automotive lubricant markets in the Americas in coming years, b ...