A court last month ordered that transformer oil rerefiner Hydrodec Group’s dormant Australian subsidiary be wound down to insolvency, calling it the ...

Japanese specialty lubricant manufacturer Moresco Corp. reported higher sales of specialty lubricants and lower sales of synthetics oils for its first ...

Lubricant additive sales volumes in the United States rebounded in May after retreating the previous month, according to statistics released recently ...

Motor oils and filters were among the fastest growing automotive aftermarket categories online in 2020 in the United States, as the pandemic altered t ...

Gazprom Neft’s lubricant sales stood flat last year because of Russia’s stagnated industrial output and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on both d ...

Egypt’s Misr Petroleum has reached an agreement for the company’s joint venture with Emirates National Oil Co. to produce finished lubricants at M ...

Lubricant demand in Spain this year through May was up 33% from the same period in 2020 – during which pandemic restrictions and lockdowns had the m ...

GP Global disclosed recently that it has tabled plans to build a lubricant blending plant in Saronda, India, because of economic uncertainties stemmin ...

Japan’s finished lubricants consumption grew 32% in May, compared to the same month last year. It marked the fourth consecutive month this year that ...

The average age of light vehicles in the United States increased 9%, to 11.9 years in 2020 from 10.9 years in 2011, and is projected to rise to 12.1 y ...

Russian oil major Lukoil increased production at its standalone lubricant blending plants by 17% to 161,000 metric tons in 2020, Lukoil said in its an ...

France’s Ministry of Ecology last week implemented a system giving increased regulatory scrutiny to industrial sites that have had accidents or a hi ...

Used oil collection in Italy fell 11% in 2020, reflecting the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on lubricant consumption, according to the National Con ...

South Korea exported a larger volume of base oil in May than in the same month last year, marking the fourth consecutive month with a year-to-year inc ...

For the quarter and fiscal year ending March 31, Savita Oil Technologies Ltd. reported higher net profit, while Continental Petroleums Ltd. reported l ...

Sales at oil change and lubrication shops in the United States declined 3% to $6.4 billion in 2020, down from $6.6 billion in 2019, according to a joi ...

Local firefighting officials said last week that a June 14 blaze that heavily damaged a Chemtool grease plant in Rockton, Illinois, was triggered by a ...

Saudi Arabia’s main business association formed a committee this month to promote reforms for the nation’s finished lubricant and base oil markets ...

Belarus’ base oils effectively stopped flowing to the West last week after the European Union imposed sanctions against the country. The EU was reta ...

Lubricant consumption in France jumped 61% in April, compared to the same month in 2020, likely reflecting a rebound from the first full month of COVI ...