August 2026

Valvoline Global Operations will create a new global headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A., and turn its current Lexington, Kentucky site into the central hub for its Americas region. More than 400 employees will remain in Lexington, focusing on the company’s

Lubrizol has launched the Lubrizol CV1700 Series, a suite of heavy-duty engine oil additive solutions built for the American Petroleum Institute’s (API’s) next diesel engine oil specification, and has begun shipping in

Singapore-based Pertamina International Marketing and Distribution Pte. Ltd. (PIMD) is looking to Singapore as the first reference market for Indonesian biomethanol, with physical exports expected to begin after a commercial-scale plant, targeted for around 2028, comes online, Aditya Prabowo, managing

Clariant has opened two research and development (R&D) laboratories for its additives business in China, giving the Swiss specialty chemicals company full local synthesis capability for flame retardants and performance additives for the first time. The laboratories are at the

MAL Pakistan Limited, the marketing alliance of ExxonMobil Lubricants & Specialties, has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with Hascol Petroleum Limited to sell Mobil lubricants through Hascol’s

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened an engineering analysis into whether General Motors Co.’s (GM) recall remedy for its 6.2-litre L87 V-8 engine worked, covering 997,743 vehicles from the 2021 through 2026 model years. The investigation,

Sinopec’s lubricant arm has completed final verification of a cold plate liquid cooling fluid for data centres and brought it to market as Great Wall Chipray CY-E25, after an ultra-long-cycle corrosion test lasting 1,000 hours. Researchers at the Beijing Research

The Chemours Company has launched two refrigerants for stationary chiller applications, Opteon ZE (R-1234ze(E)) and Opteon 515B (R-515B), aimed at large-scale cooling in data centres, commercial buildings and other mission-critical environments. The Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.-based chemistry company announced the

Sefas Group has agreed to acquire 100% of Shell’s fuel station business in Indonesia, subject to regulatory approvals and other customary conditions, the Indonesian lubricants distributor said on 19 August. The company said it would proceed with the process of

The Australian government has opened consultation on the next phase of its fuel security agenda, part of an AUD 14.8 billion (USD 10.5 billion) Fuel Security and Resilience Package announced in the 2026-27 Budget. In a joint media release on