Lubricants Group Ballots SN Plus

January 10, 2018

The American Petroleum Institutes Lubricants Group closed its ballot on SN Plus Dec. 29, with a healthy majority voting to adopt the supplemental category, industry...

Coolants Plus Acquires Scot

January 10, 2018

Coolants Plus, the marketer of Starfire brand lubricants, announced last week that it had purchased Scot Lubricants Inc., giving the company its first blending and...

Grease Research Earns NLGI Grant

January 10, 2018

A scientific investigation into the mysteries of lubricating grease degradation and entropy has been awarded the NLGI Research Grant for 2017, the National Lubricating Grease...

Briefly Noted

January 10, 2018

Chugoku Kogyo Co. Ltd. of Hiroshima will distribute Grundy Center, Iowa-based Environmental Lubricants Manufacturing Inc.s biobased grease and lubricants in Japan. The Automotive Oil Change...

SSY Base Oil Shipping Report

January 10, 2018

Markets in Asia, Europe and the United States all got off to a fairly sedate start to the year. Encouraging signs have been seen on...

U.S. Base Oil Price Report

January 10, 2018

Motiva, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Phillips 66, Flint Hills Resources and Kleen Performance Products issued price increases over the past few days. The price hikes were said...

Editor’s Letter

January 3, 2018

Beginning this week, LubesnGreases is switching to a regional format for Lube Report - and launching a third online newsletter. The new newsletter is Lube...

From Other Editions of Lube Report

January 3, 2018

UAE Blender Changes HandsQuaker Buys Out India JVWuerth Group Acquires Liqui MolySinopec Project Doubles NPG Capacity

U.S. Base Oil Price Report

January 3, 2018

Crude oil futures ushered in the New Year registering two-year highs, which prompted base oil participants to keep an anxious eye on developments as feedstock...

SSY Base Oil Shipping Report

January 3, 2018

Adrian Brown is away. His column will reappear in the Jan. 10 issue.