Industrial Greases

Grease Touted for Robot Joints

Grease Touted for Robot Joints

May 14, 2021

Greases can offer advantages over gear oils in helping to prevent wear of precision reducers – known as RV reducers or ...

Meridian Buys Malaysian Lube Producer

Meridian Buys Malaysian Lube Producer

April 9, 2021

Meridian Adhesives Group acquired Pacific Adhesive Systems, a Malaysia-based corporation with lubricant and grease opera ...

Lopal Exports Lubricants to Pakistan

Lopal Exports Lubricants to Pakistan

April 2, 2021

Chinese lubricants marketer Jiangsu Lopal Tech recently exported its first batch of lubricants to Pakistan, which it sai ...

Grease Holds Promise for Evolving Industry

Grease Holds Promise for Evolving Industry

April 1, 2021

As electric vehicles threaten to drain away the lifeblood of the lubricants industry—engine oil accounts for about 40% ...

DuPont to Build Lubes Facilities

DuPont to Build Lubes Facilities

March 12, 2021

DuPont said last week that it is investing $40 million to construct specialty lubricant manufacturing units at existing ...

A Whistle Stop Tour of Locomotive Lubes

A Whistle Stop Tour of Locomotive Lubes

March 4, 2021

Since the first steam trains of early 19th century England, locomotives have been an invaluable boon to trade and civili ...

Profits Rise for Indian Companies

Profits Rise for Indian Companies

February 12, 2021

Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd., Apar Industries’ transformer oil and specialty oil segment, Balmer Lawrie’s grease s ...

India May Break Up Balmer Lawrie

India May Break Up Balmer Lawrie

January 15, 2021

India’s central government will probably break apart Balmer Lawrie & Co. and divest its units – including its gr ...

Idemitsu to Buy Up Toa Shares

Idemitsu to Buy Up Toa Shares

January 8, 2021

Japan’s Idemitsu Kosan Co. will consolidate its lubricant and grease business by buying up stock of Toa Oil Co. to mak ...

Prohibited Chemical Allowed in Lubes

Prohibited Chemical Allowed in Lubes

January 6, 2021

The United States Environmental Protection Agency last month excluded the lubricant industry from a new prohibition on p ...

Lithium Loosens Its Grip on Grease

Lithium Loosens Its Grip on Grease

December 1, 2020

At the end of March, India implemented the world’s most stringent lockdown in response to the novel coronavirus pandem ...

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Sri Lanka’s First Grease Plant Almost Built

November 27, 2020

Lanka IOC said recently that it expects to complete construction of Sri Lanka’s first grease plant by the end of this ...

Most Indian Companies’ Profits Increase

Most Indian Companies’ Profits Increase

November 13, 2020

Castrol India Ltd. reported higher profit for the quarter ending Sept. 30, compared to the same period in 2019, while Gu ...

Fuchs Acquires Silicone Lubes Maker

Fuchs Acquires Silicone Lubes Maker

November 4, 2020

Fuchs Group acquired Sanford, North Carolina-based PolySi Technologies, which formulates and manufactures silicone lubri ...

Seeking New Business During a Pandemic

Seeking New Business During a Pandemic

September 23, 2020

Advice for lubricant manufacturers weathering the COVID-19 storm continues to point toward finding new sources of revenu ...

Rebound Forecast for Industrial Lubes

Rebound Forecast for Industrial Lubes

September 16, 2020

Global demand volumes for general industrial oils and grease will decline 13% this year due to COVID-19’s impacts, con ...

Industrial Lubes Roughed up by Pandemic

Industrial Lubes Roughed up by Pandemic

September 11, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic will reduce global demand volumes for general industrial oils and greases by 13% this year, consul ...

Greases Keep Components Moving in Space

Greases Keep Components Moving in Space

September 9, 2020

“Greases are absolutely the space lubricant of choice,” Christopher DellaCorte, senior technologist of tribology at ...