Martin Midstream Partners L.P. announced last Friday that its subsidiary, Martin Operating Partnership L.P., has entered into an asset purchase agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets and inventory of Kansas City, Missouri based NL Grease, LLC, a grease manufacturer that specializes in private-label packaging of commercial and industrial greases.

ExxonMobil Fuels, Lubricants & Specialties Marketing Company announced last Monday that it is the only lubricant manufacturer to have NSF H1-registered lubricants produced in facilities that have earned ISO 22000 certification.

The Great Lakes division of Maxum Petroleum, comprised of Hartney Fuel Oil Company and Paulson Oil Company announced last week that its transport and railroad fuel businesses have been acquired by Mansfield Oil Company and its lubricants and tank wagon fuel businesses have been acquired by RelaDyne.

Chevron is conducting a review of its fuels operations in Egypt and Pakistan, which includes its shareholding in Pakistan Refinery Ltd, as well as fuels marketing, in Egypt and Pakistan, but the company’s lubricants business is not a part of this review. Chevron stated that no decision had yet been made to sell any assets.

Oxea last Wednesday announced that it successfully commenced operations at its new state-of-the-art plant for the production of carboxylic acids in Oberhausen, Germany. This new facility will boost Oxea’s global carboxylic acid production capacity by around 40 percent. Carboxylic acids are used in the manufacture of products such as energy-efficient lubricants.

The Synthetic EP Industrial Gear Lubricants Chart is the seventh of a 12-chart series of the Sixth Edition of our Synthetic Industrial Lubricant Cross Reference Chart Series. This 12-set series consists of fully synthetic lubricants marketed by hundreds of worldwide lube manufacturing & marketing companies and industrial equipment OEMs.

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