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France Lube Sales Fall in July

September 20, 2022

France’s lubricant consumption fell 11% to 44,253 tons in July, compared to the same month last year, according to data released last week by the Pa ...

Lubricant consumption in France decreased 3% to 46,452 metric tons in June, compared to the same month last year, according to data released Aug. 4 by ...

France’s lubricant consumption rose 9% to 45,368 tons in May, compared to the same month last year, according to data released by the Paris-based Pr ...

France Lube Demand Slips

June 28, 2022

Lubricant consumption in France decreased 8% to 44,086 metric tons in April, compared to the same month last year, according to data released on Satur ...

Specialty chemicals distributor and service provider Azelis reached agreements to buy two related distributors in India – Chemo India and Unipharm L ...

German chemicals distributor Oqema acquired the Orosolv Group, a French distributor of lubricants and other products, to expand and develop its busine ...

A French association of lubricant suppliers this month announced the formation of Cyclevia, a nonprofit organization tasked with helping to increase t ...

France’s finished lubricant consumption declined to 42,319 metric tons in February, a 7% decline from the same month last year, according to data re ...

Seven weeks into Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the number of foreign businesses vowing to leave Russia or scale back there continues to grow ...

Lubricant sales in France were up slightly for 2021 and in December, compared to the same periods in 2020, according to an industry association’s da ...

France Lube Demand Rises

January 18, 2022

Lubricant demand in France was up year over year in November 2021 for the first time since August and only the second time since May, lifted by substa ...

Residents in proximity to Lubrizol’s lubricant additive plant in Rouen, France, experienced elevated incidence of mood disorders such as anxiety and ...

Investment firm SK Capital has completed its purchase of a controlling stake in Seqens, a French producer of chemicals for pharmaceuticals, as well as ...

France Demand Down Again

December 21, 2021

France consumed 46,886 metric tons of finished lubricants in October, once again running behind the same month of 2020, according to the latest data f ...

France Sales Fell in September

November 23, 2021

France’s lubricant demand dropped more than 10% in September, compared to the same month in 2020, but was up sequentially from August. Sales for the ...

Lehvoss Group, a producer and distributor of raw materials for lubricant additives and base oils based in Hamburg, Germany, acquired French lubricant ...

Lubricant demand in France showed a moderate year-over-year increase in August, but several lubricant segments posted their lowest monthly sales of th ...

Multipurpose fluids play a key role for electric vehicle motors as evolving technologies raise cooling and lubrication performance requirements, a Tot ...

France Demand Slowed in July

September 28, 2021

Although lubricant demand in France slowed year on year for the second consecutive month in July, the sales volume was the second-highest for a month ...

France’s Lube Demand Slows

September 14, 2021

Although lubricant demand slowed in France in June – declining from the same month in 2020 for the first year-on-year decline since February – dem ...