Russia’s retail market for automobile spare parts, including motor oils, is facing supply shortages, according to Autodoc.ru, the country’s larges ...

Japanese specialty lubricant manufacturer Moresco Corp. reported higher sales of both specialty lubricants and synthetic oils for its second fiscal qu ...

A Malaysian joint venture between BASF and Petronas will double its capacity to make 2-ethylhexanoic acid due to growing demand in applications such a ...

Lanxess said this week that it will expand its output of aminic antioxidants for lubricants at a chemical factory in Taiwan. The German chemical compa ...

Toyota revealed that by 2025, its iconic Prius would be powered by a hydrogen-fueled internal combustion engine, according to Japanese automotive medi ...

Vertex Energy shareholders voted in favor of its proposed sale of used motor oil collection and recycling assets – including two rerefineries – to ...

ExxonMobil Synthetics today announced plans to expand the production capacity of its metallocene high viscosity polyalphaolefin plant in Baytown, Texa ...

Multipurpose fluids play a key role for electric vehicle motors as evolving technologies raise cooling and lubrication performance requirements, a Tot ...

Shell broke ground last week on the new building and storage facility that will house the capacity expansion of its 180,000-tons-per-year blending pla ...

A German research institute said today that it is leading twin projects aimed at achieving superlubricity in vehicles and industrial machinery in orde ...

Sinopec has finally started up an API Group II base oil unit at its Yanshan Petrochemical refining complex, eight years after the unit was built. The ...

Sales of new energy vehicles – mostly electric vehicles and hybrids – in China reached a record 321,000 in August, the fourth consecutive month of ...

Chinese lubricants blender Qingdao Copton Tech Co. reported increases in net profit and operating income for the first half of this year, compared to ...

Base oil output in the United States retreated in July, dipping slightly below the level produced in June and falling below amounts produced before th ...

Neste has agreed to sell its API Group III business to Chevron, the companies announced Monday, a deal that expands Chevron’s presence in the growin ...

U.S. Base Oil Production Continues on the Path to Recovery The COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on United States base oil production during the firs ...

Japan's finished lubricants consumption and production both declined sharply in August, compared to the same period last year, according to data relea ...

The lubricants business of Hong Kong-based Yip’s Chemical Holdings Ltd. reported improved operating profit and sales for the first half of this year ...

Specialty chemical supplier Albemarle Corp. announced yesterday that it has agreed to purchase Guangxi Tianyuan New Energy Materials Co., a start-up t ...

South Korean-based DL Chemical Co. Ltd. will acquire Houston-based Kraton Corp. for $2.5 billion in cash under a definitive merger agreement announced ...