Rerefined Base Oils

How are used oil recyclers staying afloat in the wake of low crude prices? By controlling what they can, and jettisoning the risk.

Uzbek-Bulgarian joint venture Uz-Prista Recycling started its rerefinery in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in trial mode and scheduled a grand opening for May, ...

Puralube plans to partner with NexLube Tampa to complete its Florida rerefinery and enable it to produce API Group III base oil by 2018, according to ...

Q4 Wrap-up

March 9, 2016

Heritage-Crystal Cleans oil business segment posted lower sales, and Milacron reported lower operating earnings for its Industrial Fluids segment in t ...

Citing tough market conditions, Hydrodec Group sold its United Kingdom operations – including its waste oil collection business and a proposed r ...

Vertex Sells Nevada Rerefinery

February 10, 2016

Clean Harbors acquired Vertex Energys rerefinery in Fallon, Nevada, for $35 million to boost plans to increase its rerefining presence in California a ...

Puralube plans to upgrade one of its rerefineries in Troeglitz, Germany, to enable production of API Group III base oil in the first quarter of 2017. ...

Low crude oil prices, decreased demand from industrial burners and growth in rerefining capacity have been the three major contributors to the rerefin ...

Safety-Kleens blended oils business steps out on its own with a green and optimistic attitude.

Clean Harbors Safety-Kleen subsidiary will impose an increase of $80 per stop on all customers across its used oil customer base, citing continued dec ...

LAGOS, Nigeria – A call for federal legislation on waste oil disposal and collection gained traction at the Nigerian Lubricant Summit held from ...

Chief Executive Ian Smale stepped down Dec. 4, and Chief Financial Officer Chris Ellis was appointed acting chief executive, the United Kingdom-based ...

CleanOil Investment and a subsidiary of Jebsen Group inaugurated their joint venture used oil rerefinery and lubricant blending plant on Saturday in Z ...

Safety-Kleens parent Clean Harbors has carved out its base oils and lubricants business under the new name Kleen Performance Products. All of rerefine ...

Charge!

October 21, 2015

As used oil generators wince, the pendulum swings back to charging for collection services.

New Zealands antitrust regulator has settled on a resolution to proceedings against a waste oil collection division of EnviroWaste over alleged anti-c ...

Tough Half Year for Hydrodec

September 30, 2015

Transformer oil rerefiner Hydrodec Group posted a $7.5 million loss for the six months ending June 30, compared to a $3 million loss during the first ...

China has over 400 facilities capable of recycling used lubricants, but many are small and dont produce base oils, according to a Chinese rerefiner wh ...

After years in the doldrums, the rerefined base oils market is garnering an increasingly sizeable market share in the Middle East despite suffering fr ...

Safety-Kleens parent company on Monday announced it will begin charging to collect used oil from all non-contract generators and will expand its appli ...