Lube marketer Atlantis International Inc. last week acquired the Automotive Chemicals and Lubricant division of Daks Industries LLC. Both businesses exported Super S-branded products to corners of the world, while Atlantis also peddles lubricants under the Crown flag. Both companies were doing basically the same thing with Super S, said Dawn Boyd, formerly president of Daks and now a sales representative with Atlantis. We didnt have the volume that [Atlantis] had, so we thought could create some...

Cognis Deutschland GmbH announced yesterday a multi-phase project to expand its capacity to make synthetic esters at its factory in Cincinnati. The company uses the plant-based esters as base stocks in transmission and axle lubricants marketed primarily for heavy-duty trucks. Cognis, which is headquartered in Dusseldorf, Germany, did not disclose the cost or size of the project. Management did say it expects to complete the first phase during the first quarter of 2007. The company described the ...

A year after dropping Texaco from its corporate identity, Chevron Corp. is renaming subsidiaries that operate under the Caltex moniker. Subsidiaries in eight countries in the Asia-Pacific region have already adopted the Chevron name, and more will do so later this year. Officials say the parent company is making the change to present the same face wherever it operates. Caltex was created in 1936 as a joint venture between Chevron and Texaco and became part of what is now Chevron when Chevron acq...