Following years of dialogue with regulators, used oil recycling's largest trade group believes a sensible stance on PCB-contaminated oil may be within ...

FAJARDO, Puerto Rico-With feedstock costs rising and demand for used oil-derived products sinking, the used oil market is upside down, said recycling ...

Announcements by Clean Harbors and Vertex Energy last week suggest a trend in the U.S. used oil collection business towards paying no fee or charging ...

Transformer oil rerefiner Hydrodec said it plans to appoint a contractor early in 2015 to develop the front-end engineering design of its planned rere ...

Vertex Energy Inc. closed on its acquisition of Heartland Group Holdings – a used oil collection network and rerefinery in Columbus, Ohio – ...

The opening of the first waste oil rerefinery in Central Asia has been delayed for administrative reasons, Bulgarian lube maker Prista Oil told Lube R ...

Century Refineries Pvt. has sold its land and unfinished rerefinery in Bay City, Texas, and agreed to acquire an 8 million gallon terminal near Annapo ...

Air Products is building a hydrogen lab in Pennsylvania designed to help oil rerefiners optimize their hydrotreatment processes. The lab is scheduled ...

Transformer oil rerefiner Hydrodec has settled with its insurers on a $20 million claim following the fire damage its Canton, Ohio, rerefinery incurre ...

Heritage-Crystal Clean acquired FCC Environmental for $90 million, adding 54 million gallons per year of used oil volume. Heritage officials said Frid ...

Nigeria held its first Lubricant Summit in Lagos in August to discuss the state of the industry and plan the sectors future. Attendees paid particular ...

Industrial Finance Finland STR Ltd. purchased the Hamina, Finland, rerefinery formerly owned by bankrupt Finnish rerefiner L&T Recoil Oy, and pla ...

Vertex Energy Inc. plans to acquire Heartland Group Holdings – including its rerefinery in Columbus, Ohio – for $16.5 million. Heartlands ...

Hydrodec signed engineering, licensing and technology collaboration agreements with Chemical Engineering Partners for a planned U.K. rerefinery capabl ...

Hydrodec is rebuilding its Canton, Ohio, transformer oil rerefinery after a fire destroyed the plant’s processing unit last December, with two n ...

Puralube is considering upgrading its rerefinery operations in Germany to produce rerefined API Group III base oil, and it named a former Safety-Kleen ...

Italian rerefiner Viscolube agreed to develop a waste oil rerefinery in cooperation with Chinese steelmaker Baosteel. Construction of the facility, wh ...

Prista Recycling expects to stream base oil at its rerefinery in Uzbekistan by October, the Bulgarian refiner told Lube Report last week. The base oil ...

Australia will continue to support oil recycling through its consumer-funded rebate program after vetoing a proposal to cut benefits.

It seems that hardly a week goes by it without bringing word of a new rerefinery project. What could keep these pipedreams from turning into reality?