Rerefined Base Oils

Poland’s government will introduce a waste oil management bill to encourage that used lubricants be recycled into base stocks instead of being burne ...

For the quarter ending June 30, Calumet Specialty Products Partners LP reported a net profit, while Quaker Chemical, HollyFrontier’s lubricants and ...

Revenues Drop for HCC

July 29, 2020

Heritage-Crystal Clean’s oil business segment – which includes oil collection activities, rerefining activities and sales of recycled fuel oil – ...

Rerefiners in North America are feeling the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic in the form of reduced demand for their base oil and finished lubes, alon ...

Clean Harbors acquired a small API Group II+ rerefinery in New Hampshire last month, providing its Safety-Kleen subsidiary with a foothold in the Nort ...

Clean Harbors’ Safety-Kleen segment and Heritage-Crystal Clean’s oil business segment both reported higher revenues for the first quarter, compare ...

Southwest Dingsheng Energy plans to build a base oil rerefinery in Xi Feng County, Guizhou province. A local government environmental assessment was r ...

Automotive

April 1, 2020

Steve Swedberg traces the evolution of used oil from careless disposal to rerefining.

Clean Harbors announced on Monday that its Safety-Kleen subsidiary and all of its waste oil collection businesses will raise prices related to collect ...

Quaker Chemical reported an increase in fourth quarter net income, but a decline for 2019. Its net sales were higher for the quarter and 2019, followi ...

United Kingdom-based transformer oil rerefiner Hydrodec Group posted a full-year loss for 2019 and said its revenues declined by more than 22 percent, ...

The Middle East may be finally kicking its monograde engine oil dependence, but dealing with the disposal of low-grade used oil could galvanize an inc ...

Rerefining Rate up in Spain

December 31, 2019

Seventy-two percent of waste oil generated in Spain in 2018 was refined into base stocks, according to a recent annual progress report by Sigaus, a no ...

Africa Lags in Rerefining

December 24, 2019

Africa recycles less of its used lubricants into base oils than other regions, and several obstacles stand in the way of increasing that amount, indus ...

Rerefinery Planned in Turkey

November 26, 2019

Turkish waste oil collector Tayras announced that it is building an API Group II rerefinery with enough capacity to process 20 percent of the used lub ...

Base Oils from Plastic

November 13, 2019

A group of American researchers claimed last month to have developed a catalyst that effectively recycles plastic grocery bags into lubricating oil an ...

Chile enacted a law last week that aims to recycle used lubricants by giving producers and end-users responsibilities to help recover waste oils. One ...

Clean Harbors Safety-Kleen segment posted an uptick in revenue and waste oil collection, while HollyFrontiers lubricants and specialty products segmen ...

Results Down for HCC, WD-40

October 23, 2019

Heritage-Crystal Cleans oil business segment reported a small decline in revenues for its third quarter, and WD-40 posted steep declines in net income ...

United Kingdom-based Hydrodec Group this week unveiled details of the sale of its Australian hydrotreater - to its biggest shareholder, who will have ...