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Motul Buys Metalworking Fluid Firm

Motul Buys Metalworking Fluid Firm

October 30, 2024

French performance lubricant company Motul has acquired Chem Arrow Corp., a move aimed at expanding its market reach and ...

Italy’s Model for Waste Oil Regeneration

Italy’s Model for Waste Oil Regeneration

October 30, 2024

Italy is the European Union’s leading collector and regenerator of waste oil, said the head of the country's waste oil ...

Gazpromneft Singapore Unit Calls it Quits

Gazpromneft Singapore Unit Calls it Quits

October 23, 2024

Gazpromneft’s Singapore subsidiary, Gazpromneft Marine Lubricants, will close down after a final general meeting of bo ...

Norway Goes Full EV

Norway Goes Full EV

October 23, 2024

Norway is the first country in the world where there are more electric vehicles than internal combustion engine cars, ac ...

Total Keeps Lube Business, Sells Fuels

Total Keeps Lube Business, Sells Fuels

October 23, 2024

French energy giant TotalEnergies is to sell off its Brazilian fuel retail network to SIM Distribuidora. The company sa ...

Moove Launches Comma in Spain

Moove Launches Comma in Spain

October 23, 2024

Brazilian lubricant maker Moove launched its engine oil and automotive chemicals brand Comma in Spain. The launch is par ...

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PCF Methodology Gets Industry-first Certification

October 17, 2024

Certification agency TÜV Rheinland Energy GmbH has given the thumbs up to the “Methodology for Product Carbon Footpri ...

Norac Builds Esterification Line  

Norac Builds Esterification Line  

October 16, 2024

Norac Additives broke ground on a new esterification line at its production site in Helena, Arkansas, giving German pare ...

Chinese Adco Eyes Foreign Markets

Chinese Adco Eyes Foreign Markets

October 16, 2024

Aorun is a relative newcomer to the lubricant additives business and is one of several Chinese companies looking to supp ...

Dumping Claims May Trigger U.K. Tariffs

Dumping Claims May Trigger U.K. Tariffs

October 16, 2024

Authorities in the United Kingdom are mulling the imposition of import tariffs on certain engine oils and hydraulic flui ...

Moove Suspends IPO

Moove Suspends IPO

October 16, 2024

Lubricant maker Moove postponed its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange a few hours before it was due ...

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TPC Expands Di-isobutylene Output

October 9, 2024

TPC announced its chemical plant in Houston has increased its capacity to make di-isobutylene, in response to growing de ...

Perstorp Gets Top Sustainability Rating

Perstorp Gets Top Sustainability Rating

October 9, 2024

Sustainability ratings agency EcoVadis put Perstorp among the top 1% of companies it assessed for sustainability.

Court Battle for Citgo Goes On

Court Battle for Citgo Goes On

October 9, 2024

Amber Energy Inc. made the successful bid for Citgo, the formerly Venezuelan refiner.

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Domestic Preferences Bring Challenges

October 9, 2024

China’s leader Xi Jinping has prioritized supply chain self-reliance, leading Chinese manufacturers to prefer compatri ...

Ingevity Stock Tumbles after CEO Walks

Ingevity Stock Tumbles after CEO Walks

October 9, 2024

Specialty chemicals company Ingevity saw the company’s value tumble after its CEO John Forston left the boardroom for ...

Recycler Vertex Files for Bankruptcy

Recycler Vertex Files for Bankruptcy

October 2, 2024

Vertex Energy Inc., a renewable fuels and environmental services company, filed for bankruptcy last week after its attem ...

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Chinese MWFs Flow to Belt and Road

October 2, 2024

Chinese metalworking fluids producers are following their automotive clients as they seek out new markets, especially th ...