The troubles over the Mizushima plant continue to build for Japanese petroleum company JX Nippon. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) ...

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. widened a recall on Dec. 20 for an oil leak issue on vehicles sold in Japan to about 1.7 million vehicles, prompting a rebuke ...

A crankcase defect led Kawasaki to recall 4,170 model year 2011 to 2012 motorcycles. The recall includes several variants of the ZX-10R Ninja motorcy ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued Hydrodec Group a final permit for storage and treatment of used transformer oil contaminated with poly ...

The European Council repealed an anti-dumping duty on furfuraldehyde from China, saying in recent years the EUs industry had fully recovered while pri ...

General Motors will recall more than 400,000 2011 and 2012 model Chevrolet Cruzes in the United States because of an engine shield flaw that could tra ...

Health Canada postponed lowering the limits on the popular metalworking fluid biocide triazine to 500 ppm, a change originally scheduled to go into ef ...

Citgo sued distributor Mid-State Energy and subsidiary Highland Oil, alleging they sold poor quality, non-Citgo bulk lubricants falsely labeled with C ...

IQ Products sued WD-40 for breach of contract, alleging WD-40 terminated a long-term packaging agreement as retaliation when IQ Products notified it o ...

Z Technologies filed an antitrust suit against Lubrizol, alleging its acquisition of Lockharts wax oxidate business in 2007 resulted in a monopoly and ...

The former president of a South Carolina lubricant blender was arrested in May on charges of exporting aviation oils in violation of a U.S. economic e ...

Jiffy Lube International has become the target of a class action lawsuit filed in California Superior Court for the County of Los Angeles. The suit, f ...

Regulatory pressures continue to push metalworking fluid formulators to find alternative chemistries, even in the absence of hard data to back up rest ...

Fuel and lubricants packager and distributor SMF Energy and its subsidiaries filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy petitions in Florida, saying efforts to reduc ...

The U.S. Department of Commerce has ordered a temporary halt to exports by lubricant manufacturer Delfin Group USA, alleging that the company violated ...

Philippine law enforcement officials confiscated 8,878 bottles of counterfeit Castrol lubricants worth U.S. $37,000 during a raid, the nations state-r ...

OSHA yesterday released the final rule revising its Hazard Communication Standard, to align with the United Nations global chemical labeling system. ...

The Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association and WD-40 are at odds over a California Senate bill to amend South Coast Air Quality Management Di ...

Milacron and subsidiary Cimcool have sued Stough Tool Sales for marketing pink industrial fluids, alleging trademark infringement and unfair competiti ...

Dover Chemical will pay $1.4 million in civil penalties for unauthorized manufacture of chlorinated paraffins at facilities in Dover, Ohio, and Hammon ...