Lubricants World articles from June 2001

Lubricants World archives from June 2001

Think Globally, Act Locally.(International Lubricants Conference for the Americas)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... The first worldwide diesel heavy-duty engine oil standard (Global DHD-1) notwithstanding, lube makers and marketers (and packagers and shippers and so on) must be prepared to face marketplaces as they move out of their own regions, recognizing...

Valero Energy to Acquire Utramar Diamond Shamrock.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Valero Energy Corp. (San Antonio) and Ultramar Diamond Shamrock Corp. (UDS; San Antonio) jointly announced on May 7 that the companies have reached an agreement for Valero to acquire UDS, which will make Valero the second-largest U.S. refiner...

Schlumberger Measurement Division.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... The Schlumberger Measurement Division has established a flow measurement subsite within the Schlumberger Web Site, www.slb.com...

Hangsterfer's Laboratories Inc.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Hangsterfer's Laboratories Inc. has renewed its ISO 9001 registration through Bureau Veritas Quality International...

awp industries inc.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... awp industries inc. has achieved QS-9000/ISO 9001 certification...

Hoover Materials Handling Group.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Hoover Materials Handling Group has achieved ISO 9002 certification at its Anniston, AL, and Charlotte, NC, facilities, meaning that all of the company's manufacturing fadUties now hold this certification...

Castrol Syntec.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Castrol Syntec has been named the official motor oil for the 2001 Championship Season of the National Import Racing Association...

USF Filtration & Separations Group Inc.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... the Filterite division of USF Filtration & Separations Group Inc. has launched a Web site at www.filterite, Com...

Envera.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Envera announced its newest trading members, Peak Chemical LLC and Southern Chemical...

FuelSpot.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... FuelSpot is expanding its operations to include Houston; Sacramento, CA; and Jacksonville, FL.

Lubricant Business Restructuring to Continue.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... The landscape of the U.S. lubricants market is undergoing tremendous change, including a host of mergers, acquisitions, and consolidations, and the latest research by Kline & Company Inc. (Little Falls, NJ) indicates that industry participants...

Chevron Reports Net Income of $1.6 Billion.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Chevron Corp. (San Francisco) reported record quarterly net income for the 3 months ended March 31 of $1.600 billion ($2.49/share, diluted), an increase of 53% from 2000 first-quarter net income of $1.044 billion ($1.59/share, diluted)....

Texaco's First Quarter Is Up.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... At the end of April, Texaco (White Plains, NY) reported first-quarter 2001 income before special items of $836 million ($1.54/share), compared with $1.10/share for the same quarter in 2000). Net income for the period was $833 million...

Pennzoil-Quaker State Results Move Positive.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Pennzoil-Quaker State Co. (PQS; Houston) has announced first-quarter net income from continuing operations of $8.7 million, or $0.11/share, versus a toss of $0.02/share a year ago. Prior-year first-quarter results from continuing operations...

Ethyl Corp. Results Reflect Crankcase Woes.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Ethyl Corp. (Richmond, VA) has reported first-quarter 2001 earnings of $4 million, or $0.04/share, excluding nonrecurring items. First-quarter 2000 earnings on the same basis were $1 million, or $0.01/share. Including nonrecurring items, the...

Lubrizol First-Quarter Profit Drops.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Lubrizol Corp. (Wickliffe, OH) has reported that its first-quarter profit dropped, mainly due to higher costs and the impact of the strong dollar. The company said its profit in the first quarter ended March 31 was $18.5 million, or...

Crompton Petroleum Additives to Represent Memphis Products.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Crompton Corp's (Middlebury, CT) Petroleum Additives business is now responsible for sales, marketing, and customer service support for Kemester, Kemamine, Hystrene, and Industrene oleochemical friction modifiers. These products will continue...

Solvay Interox Expands Product Line.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Solvay Interox Inc. (Houston) has expanded its chemical product line, offering high-purity Solvay Diglycerol through the company's Houston headquarters. Diglycerol can be converted to a variety of derivatives, including fatty acid esters that...

Conoco Adds Motor Oil to Hydroclear Line.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... After extensive engine and fleet testing with a major automobile manufacturer, Conoco has added SAE 5W-20 motor oil to its Hydroclear product Line for retail sales. Conoco says its scientists developed the SAE 5W-20 motor oil from proprietary...

Auto Program Cut.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... The Bush Administration has canceled a 2004 deadline for automakers to develop prototype five-person sedans that would get up to 80 mpg. The initiative, which was run through the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV) and...

Pennzoil-Quaker State Completes Shreveport Sale.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Pennzoil-Quaker State Co. (Houston) announced at the end of April that it had completed the sale of its Shreveport, LA, refinery and related assets to Calumet Lubricants Co. LP (Indianapolis). Financial terms of the transaction were not...

Motiva Posts Group II-Plus Prices.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Motiva (Houston) is the first refiner to post its prices for Group II-plus base oils with ICIS-LOR (London). It has also raised the premium on that grade of basestock over the value traditionally assigned by the major producer, ExxonMobil...

Walnut Hill Sells Wax Division.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Walnut Hill Enterprises (Fallsington, PA) has sold its Specialty Wax Products Division to Bareco Products (Rock Hill, SC). Walnut Hill Enterprises has been a marketer of specialty wax products throughout the world. The acquisition by Bareco...

Federal Agency Settles with Metalworking Lubricants.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 recently reached agreement with Metalworking Lubricants Co. (Pontiac, MI) for allegedly violating the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Metalworking Lubricants paid a $15,000...

Foster Wheeler Gets Italian Contract.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Foster Wheeler Corp. (Clinton, NJ) announced that Foster Wheeler Environmental Italia was awarded a 3-year environmental services contract in northern and southern Italy valued at approximately $20 million by AgipPetroli, S.p.A. Foster Wheeler...

RohMax Agrees to Buy Rhodia Business.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... RohMax Additive GmbH (Darmstadt, Germany) has agreed to acquire the U.K.-based Empicryl Lubricant additives business from Rhodia (Watford, U.K.). The transaction was anticipated to close by the end of last month. Production based at...

BP Issues Quarterly Results.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... For the first quarter of 2001, BP (London) has posted pro forma results, adjusted for special items, of $4.126 billion, compared with $2.707 billion a year ago. This translates to just over $0.18/share, compared with $0.13/share a year ago, an...

Rebis Inc. Establishes Rebis Scandinavia A/S.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Rebis (Walnut Creek, CA), a market leader in plant design and management software, has launched Rebis Scandinavia A/S, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rebis Inc. Rebis Scandinavia A/S, Located in Copenhagen, marks another milestone in Rebis Inc.'s...

Petro-Canada Reports Record Earnings.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Petro-Canada (Calgary) announced its best-ever quarterly operating earnings in April. Earnings from operations for the quarter were $327 million ($1.22/share), up from $148 million ($0.54/share) before a reorganization charge of $33 million...

Tribospec Inaugurates New Facility.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Tribospec has established its head office and production unit in LaSalle, QC. The building covers 61,000 square feet of land. All facilities are inside buildings, with no tanks visible from the outside. The company manufactures lubes and...

Association Plugs Into Joint Projects.(Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association )
June 1, 2001... Ongoing projects by the Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association (ILMA) demonstrate the group's commitment to maximizing its assets and relationships for the benefit of its members and others in the lubricants industry that participate...

Speakers, Format to Enhance Fall Meeting.(Petroleum Packaging Council )(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... The Petroleum Packaging Council (PPC) is putting the finishing touches on its Fall Meeting, which bears the title "E-Commerce, the Global Solution" and which promises to offer unique insight from leading experts in the petroleum and packaging...

Upgraded Web Site Yields Round-the-Clock Benefits.(Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers ()
June 1, 2001... The Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE) recently launched several online initiatives to benefit its worldwide membership and the lubrication industry in general. At the same time, STLE's Web site, www.stle.org, is showing a...

Measure by Measure.
June 1, 2001... There's nothing special about oil analysis in condition monitoring--except the technological advances, the volume of work, the phenomenal growth, and the savings potential. By some estimates, condition monitoring has been around for more...

WD-40 Co.: Building on Demonstrable Value.
June 1, 2001... With its roots in lubricants, and yet somehow just on the edge of the lubricants industry, the WD-40 Co. finds a simple formula for success. How can you stand on formality when your company's flagship product has its own fan club and its...

Transformer Oils Prove Extended-Life Strategies.
June 1, 2001... Interest in extending the useful life of oils and other fluids is an elusive goal in some applications, but those who service electrical transformers and transformer oils have achieved a good balance between achieving long oil life from the...

New Specification Test Standard for Hydraulic Fluids Is Designed to Reduce Fire Losses.
June 1, 2001... Without hydraulic systems, our industrialized world would be very different and our lives more difficult. Hydraulic systems stop our cars, control our jet aircraft, compress our trash, help construct our roads, and form hot metal into usable...

Reformulated Grease Sets Industrial Standard.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... 76 Unolife Grease has a new, more distinct dark teal color and has been reformulated with a new-technology polyurea thickener and a passive extreme pressure (EP) additive for improved lubrication performance and expanded use in industrial...

Stainless Steel Mixer Produces Uniform Emulsions.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Force-Flo stainless steel mixers use plant water line operating pressure to dispense in approximately 1/10th the time of manual mixing methods. The mixers are simple to operate and have no moving parts. Fingertip control allows fine adjustment...

Ashless Corrosion Inhibitor Enhances Industrial Lubes.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Ciba Specialty Chemicals' Irgacor L 17 corrosion inhibitor is designed to be used in the formulation of lubricants to meet increasingly demanding field performance requirements--longer drain intervals, lower maintenance schedules, no filter...

Pail Inserts Promote More Use.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... CDF Corp.'s 2-, 3.5-, and 5-gal inserts for plastic pails are seamless and semi-rigid, keeping plastic pails clean and in constant use. The Pail Savers cut cleaning costs and reduce product and environmental contamination by capturing problem...

Vertical Conveyors Deliver.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... TKF Inc. stainless steel continuous vertical conveyors provide high-speed up-and-down service for up to 40 loads a minute. They feature simple, low-maintenance designs, a wide selection of standardized units from modular components, and fully...

Web-Browser Interface Permits Manual Trading.(Envera)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Envera has introduced ED, or Envera-Direct, Envera's "Intelligent Browser Interface," a Web-browser link for companies without ERP systems to access systems and services offered by Envera. ED permits a company to manually access Envera and send...

Hyprotech.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Hyprotech has appointed Larry Schavey president of the Americas. Schavey previously served as Honeywell's hydrocarbon processing industries marketing director, and as the Honeywell Industrial Automation & Control Group's vice president. Most...

Komatsu America International Co.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Kenichi (Ken) Nakamura has been named president and chief operating officer of Komatsu America International Co. Nakamura also serves as president of Komatsu Utility Corp.

WD-40 Co.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... WD-40 Co. has named Michael J. Irwin chief financial officer. Irwin most recently served as vice president of marketing for WD-40 Co. Prior to joining WD-40 in May 1995, Irwin served in a variety of positions at Hybritech Inc.

WD-40 Co. (PEOPLE).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Tom Tranchina, who has served as WD-40 Co.'s CFO since 1998, will serve as vice president-strategic integration, and will be responsible for the full integration of the recently acquired Global Household Brands business into the WD-40 Co....

Lubhreol Consultants.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Dr. Robert B. Rhodes, president of Lubhreol Consultants, has been awarded the Sydney D. Andrews ASTM D02 Scroll of Achievement.

Shamrock Technologies Inc.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Shamrock Technologies Inc. has appointed Christophe Fillion to the newly created position of technical marketing specialist, lubricants. Fillion has extensive experience in grease applications for the industrial, automotive, and aerospace...

Lube International.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Marc Graham president of Jiffy Lube International, has been named chairman of the Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association's board of directors for 2001-2002. Graham is a 30-year veteran of the motor vehicle aftermarket and previously was...

Hexagon Enterprises Inc.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Milton A. Berube has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer of Hexagon Enterprises Inc. and its CCI Division.

INDUSTRY PRICE WATCH.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Estimated Paraffinic Base Oil Prices(*) May 2001 Viscosity Average Low-High Light (90-150) 143 132-148 Medium (195-350) 145 132-151 Heavy (500-600) 153 ...

the TOOLBOX 2001 Buyers Directory.(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2001... ADDITIVES ANTIFOAM Allegheny Petrol. Prods. Amitech BASF Corp. Blue Chip MWFs Boehme Filatex Carl Becker Chemie Chempet Corp. Chevron Oronite Clariant Corp. Crompton Crystal Inc. D.A. Stuart Delta...