Volume 3 Issue 26

GF-4 Showdown Set for July 16

Development of GF-4, the new gasoline engine oil quality upgrade, was becalmed throughout most of the winter. Forward movement resumed in the spring and a budding optimism emerged that final GF-4 specifications could be agreed upon at last Thursday’s meeting of ILSAC/Oil – the joint committee representing automobile manufacturers and the oil and additive industries which is developing the GF-4 specifications. It didn’t happen. Instead, the auto industry’s International Lu...

Dover's Latest Catch: Keil Chemical

Dover Chemical Corp. announced yesterday that it has acquired the Keil Chemical Division of Ferro Corp. The transaction unites the two largest North American producers of chlorinated paraffins and sulfurized fats and oils. Rumors of the deal have circulated for several months, raising concerns among blenders of metalworking fluids about the elimination of competition for the supply of chlorinated paraffins. Dover and Keil claim nearly all of the market for these additives, which are used to prov...

Bodie-Hoover Pulls the Plug

Lubricant blender Bodie-Hoover Petroleum Corp. is going out of business – the result, say company officials, of a tough economy and an unfavorable lease. The Chicago-area company has sold off inventories and plans to vacate its quarters by the end of this month. We were actually selling more of our own motor oil this year than we ever have before, said Manager of Plant Operations Dan Lyons. But we lost a couple of large contract blending accounts and werent able to overcome the loss of bus...