Seeking New Ingredients for Metalworking Fluids

Performance demands and regulation are pushing metalworking fluid formulators to try new types of base stocks and additi...


Pandemic Dominated 2020

The coronavirus pandemic upended lubricant markets in the Americas in 2020, as it did for industries everywhere, but the...


Equity Firm Buys Angus Chemical Stake

France-based private equity firm Ardian paid $2.3 billion to acquire a 50% ownership stake in Angus Chemical Co. from Go...


Formulating in a Legislative Straitjacket

Once the traumas of lost production and lost customers due to Covid-19 are over, metalworking fluid formulators will hav...


Clearing the Air

Air is an enemy of lubricants. One of a formulator’s major challenges is keeping out the entrained air caused by slidi...


Long-life Fluids Bring Unintended Challenges

Extending service life for metalworking fluids seems like a win, but potential pitfalls lurk for uneducated operators.


PlacesnFaces

Agreements Near for GF-6 Automakers and the lubricants industry are closer to wrapping up the long-delayedILSACGF-6 pass...


Newsmakers

Doing Deals Saudi Aramco is after a 19.9 percent stake in South Korean refiner Hyundai Oilbanks Daesan plant. Daesan pro...


PlacesnFaces

Ford Makes Headway on Diesel Test Ford has progressed in developing a shorter test for valvetrain wear in its 6.7-liter ...


New Twists on Metalworking Fluids

Neutralizers and twist compression tests are putting an unexpected spin on fluid development.