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Byline: Valerie Strauss Eighth-graders in Chicago just received their high school placements for the next school year, decisions made through a new system that uses an algorithm to match students [...]

Byline: Ellen Ostrow and M.J. Tocci Establishing a women's initiative can be a wonderful marketing tool for a law firm, but designing it to have a real impact is another [...]

Byline: Ellen Ostrow and M.J. Tocci Establishing a women's initiative can be a wonderful marketing tool for a law firm, but designing it to have a real impact is another [...]

Byline: by Jim Tocci Almost 50 years ago, President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered a farsighted address to the United Nations. In that December 1953 speech, he proposed to establish an […]

The EU's approach to Iran has emerged as one of the few successes of European foreign policy. In particular, the signing of an interim agreement in November 2013 that put [...]

Rerefining: Wave of the Future? From throughout British Columbia, from as far away as 1,500 miles, used oil is gathered and brought to North Vancouver. There, it is rerefined and [...]

Shortage of U.S. Naphthenic Oil Appears on Horizon In barely a year, major U.S. refiners have shuttered some 14,000 barrels per day of their naphthenic base oil capacity. Is that [...]

Imaging a world without lubrication equipment. Lifesavers candies would have no hole in the middle. Metalworking factories would grind to a halt. As would farm machinery. You'd have to get [...]

GM Will Detail New Automatic Transmission Fluid Specifications Makers of automatic transmission fluid, eager to get their first detailed look at General Motors Corp.'s new specifications for Dexron-IIE, are about [...]

ATLANTA -- Managers, superintendents andengineers are meeting here February 10-13 to examine the latest trends in refinery and petrochemical plant maintenance. At the 14th annual Refinery & Petrochemical Plant Maintenance [...]

Despite a sometimes financially tumultuous year, the U.S. Refining Giants saw relatively few changes during 1990 in their other key operating indicators. Once again, Chevron outstripped its competitors in the [...]

Two-Cycle Engine Builders Calling For Improved Lubricants Builders of two stroke cycle engines say they want lubricants which provide better rust protection, less smoke, and reduced emisions. Along with good [...]

Insurers Ponder Fire Potential of Plastic Bottles in Warehouses Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the warehouse, some insurance companies and steel container makers are [...]

Chlorinated Paraffins Help Lower Cutting Forces and Improve Finishes SAN FRANCISCO -- For more than a decade, debate has clouded the use of chlorinated paraffins, an effective additive for metalworking [...]

Collection Company Finds DIY Disposal Sites Complement Industrial and Commercial Pickups SAN FRANCISCO -- 'Nearly 500 million gallons of used oil are dumped each year,' says Leon Hicks of Westland [...]

New Base Stock 'Like A Synthetic' If it looks like a polyalphaolefin, sounds like a polyalphaolefin and acts like a polyalphaolefin, it must be a synthetic base oil. Right? Not [...]

MVMA Still Pushing to Replace API 'Donut' on Oil Containers When the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association (MVMA) started working on a new system for engine oil standards and certification, one [...]

Additive Code Developers Expect Implementation by September Independent testing is a cornerstone of product approval, but at times can seem more like a millstone. A voluntary code being developed by [...]

PTFE Engine Treatments: More Than Just Slick Talk? PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene) has been in use as a solid lubricant since World War II. Some people call it the 'slipperiest solid substance [...]

Bottles: Buy them or Make them? When word got out that Conoco would blowmold quart bottles at its packaging plant in Hartford, Ill., a lump of envy must have risen [...]

Government, Industry Teamwork Seen Key to Used Oil Problem According to a Department of Energy report, six of 10 do-it-yourself oil changers improperly dispose of their used motor oil, dumping [...]

Has ASTM's Cone Penetration Test Outlived Its Usefulness? 'Lubricating grease has one outstanding property compared to other lubricants,' says Lennart Hamnelid.' Consistency.' One might think that such an important property [...]

A Closer Look to the East At Different Lube Markets Do opportunities abound in Central and Eastern Europe for lubricant makers? Although this region has been subject to great scrutiny, [...]

U.S. Automakers Widen Engines for Customers 'Whenever American luxury car buyers have the option, they seem to overwhelmingly choose large, naturally aspirated engines, preferably with eight cylinders,' says Roger Fennema, [...]

Synthetics Share in Woes of Oil Market as Feedstock Prices Jump With crude oil prices so high, one might think synthetic-based greases are more price-competitive these days. One would be [...]

Statistics Reflect Marketplace with Few Hills or Valleys in Sight DENVER -- Like pancakes and the Great Plains, U.S. grease production seems to be defined by flatness. Figures presented here [...]

Railroaders Studying Environmental Effects of Track Greasing Railroaders long have known that a little oil or grease squirted onto their silvery tracks could help trains glide more smoothly and reduce [...]

NLGI's Portwood Reviews a Year of Considerable Accomplishment When he took over as president of the National Lubricating Grease Institute last year, Bob Portwood of Pacer Lubricants in Houston inherited [...]

Gas Pipeline Projects Abound in U.S., Canada Although the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recently disappointed the Iroquois Gas Transmission System by saying it will have to wait until November for [...]

Reformulation Dominates Questions Prepared for NPRA Meeting Offer a refiner a penny for his thoughts about reformulated gasoline and he might point out that meeting reformulation specifications could cost up [...]

Some Views Of a Peak In Refining Michael Young sees good new and bad news for the refining industry. 'There's no question that 1990 will be a banner year for [...]

An Insider's Look at How Williams Cares for Tanks With 667 aboveground tanks, Williams Pipe Line Co. is one of the nation's largest independent liquid storage companies, responsible for millions [...]

In `Slow to No Growth' Market, Process Oils Do well IF, a some Pollyannas would say, every challenge is an opportunity, then the industrial lubricants market fairly drips with opportunities. [...]

Compressor Market Setting the Pace ENCOURAGED by their success in tackling the compressor lubricant market, synlube sellers say they are continuing to gain ground in industry. 'For us, synthetics are [...]

Bromilow: Base Oil Supply Deficit Possible by End of Decade IS the world facing a shortage of base oil by the end of this decade? That's a distinct possibility, according [...]

Shell's Truck Guard Carves Market Niche DURING a brainstorming session, Shell Oil technical, marketing and advertising people were tossing around ideas for boosting lubricant sales. Somebody suggested an oil for [...]

Spot Shortages Raise Prices of Base Stocks PRICES of raw materials for lubricants have risen dramatically in the past six months. Yet retail lubricant prices have remained depressed, in part [...]

Upheaval Clouding Forecasters' Crystal Ball IN CASE you haven't noticed it, says Louis Taigen, 'We're in an era of radical change. Changes are coming very fast.' If you're a businesman, [...]

The 1980s were not kind to independent oil and gas producers. A list of leading independent oil and gas producers published 10 years ago by The Oil Daily reads today [...]

Exhaust, Not Engine, Now Top Consideration SAN FRANCISCO -- Federally mandated emission levels for heavy-duty engines -- coming for 1994 -- are driving a host of changes in diesel trucks [...]

Autodom: Lubricant-Gobbling Giant Beset by Troubles These are the times that try automakers' souls. Instead of holding steady or slightly rising, as the Big Three had hoped, total car and [...]

Crystal Ball Cloudy on TEA Outlook Ever since diethanolamine, commonly known as DEA, was singled out as a toxic chemical, metalworking fluid compounders and users have turned a skeptical eye [...]

Recycler Finds Use as Fuel Profitable And Says It 'Benefits the Environment' What happens to most of the used oil in the United States? According to Gary Bills, vice president [...]

NALSAS Draft Document Drew Considerable Criticism Although the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association has refused to divulge -- even to other industry groups -- comments made to it regarding a proposal [...]

Mobil Paulsboro Facility In World-Class Category It's not every day that a grass-roots lubricants facility is built, so the industry is naturally curious about what's going on in Paulsboro, N.J., [...]

Syndicated Columnist Warns Motorists to Avoid 'Cheap Junk' 'There are a lot of cheap 'junk' additives out there,' warns Bob Sikorsky, an automotive columnist with the New York Times Syndicate [...]