Aerospace and defense manufacturer Crane Co. acquired lubrication pump and system components producer Vian Enterprises for $103 million, the company a ...

The United States exported 31% more base oil in October, while the volume of base oil imported into the U.S. plummeted 41%, compared with the same mon ...

Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. and the owner of Refineria Isla have reached an agreement resolving a debt dispute and re-establishing commercial relation ...

Egyptian researchers reported developing a grease made with base stock from the jojoba plant and nano chemical additives from banana peel waste. Jojob ...

Nynas AB has entered a partnership with waste management firm Stena Recycling to collect, process and reuse used electrical transformer fluid. Under t ...

Russia – the largest country in the world, spanning two continents and 11 time zones – consumes a range of motor oil viscosity grades, although 5W ...

Vietnam this week enacted an extended producer responsibility law requiring suppliers of lubricants and other materials to take steps to recycle them. ...

Chinese lubricants blender Copton Tech Co. reported higher net profit and sales revenue for the quarter ending Sept. 30 last year. A decrease in autom ...

India’s total base oil production capacity is set to jump in the next few years due to expansions by state-owned oil companies, a Hindustan Petroleu ...

Base oil production in the United States was flat in October, with a 1% increase in paraffinic production offset by a 9% decline in naphthenic product ...

Brazil imported 26% more base oil and exported 8% less base oil in November than in the same month last year, according to data released Dec. 29 by a ...

Asia is an extremely diverse continent and so is the lubricants landscape in the region.

Germany's finished lubricants demand, including process oils, declined 11% in October, as a year-long trend of falling consumption continued, with the ...

Russian lubricant maker VMPAvto, recently opened a small factory in Saint Petersburg’s heavily industrialized Kirovsky district, which has port acce ...

Neste announced it will convert its Porvoo, Finland, crude oil refinery to process renewable feedstocks, but that change will not affect the site’s ...

Finished lubricant production in Japan declined 14%, while domestic sales increased 2% in November, compared to the same month last year, a government ...

Thai independent lubricant manufacturer P.S.P. Specialties Public Co. reported a 24% jump in net profit despite a 7% decrease in sales revenue for the ...

Richful Lube Additive Co. disclosed this week that it received a warning from securities officials who concluded that some funds raised from a 2020 pu ...

United Kingdom-based Millers Oil Ltd., manufacturer and independent blender of oils and lubricants, reported a 21% decline in net profit despite a 9% ...

Brazil refineries produced just 29,000 metric tons of base oil in November, 37% less than the same month of 2022 and the third consecutive month that ...