When Omni Specialty Packaging was created in 2000, company officials planned to focus on exporting to Latin America. That strategy has not panned out, but Omni says it is doing well nonetheless – well enough to warrant an expansion that will more than double its size. The five-year-old lubricant packager and blender is in the midst of a 75,000-square-foot expansion at its Shreveport, La., manufacturing site. Although the new space is devoted to warehousing, it will allow the company to add...

MUMBAI, India–On June 16, TotalFinaElf India Ltd., wholly owned subsidiary of Total, the fourth-largest oil major worldwide, announced its plan of doubling its market share by the year 2010 and unveiled the new Elf logo. With a turnover upwards of 2.75 billion rupees (U.S. $63.2 million) and sales of 40,000 metric tons last fiscal year, the Indian unit ranks sixth in the Total Groups worldwide lubricants revenue. The companys avowed business strategy entails strengthening the distributor n...

Investment firm Sun Capital Partners on Friday completed its acquisition of Crompton Corp.s Refined Products business. The newly spun-offcompany was named Sonneborn Inc., adopting the identity it used for the first half of the 20th century. Sun Capital of Boca Raton, Fla., paid $80 million for the business, which includes plants in Petrolia, Pa., as well as Amsterdam, Koog aan de Zaan and Haarlem, Netherlands. With 470 employees and annual revenues of $265 million, Sonneborn is the worlds larges...

Claiming to be the nations leading auto parts retailer, AutoZone sells a lot of motor oil and collects a lot of used oil. California says the company has a lot to learn about what to do with that used oil. The states attorney general filed a $12 million civil lawsuit Friday charging AutoZone, Inc. with a pattern of improperly disposing used oil and improperly storing used filters and other materials. Attorney General Bill Lockyer and three local prosecutors said they took action to show that Cal...