Rerefined

Blue Tide’s Baytown Facility Finished

Blue Tide’s Baytown Facility Finished

April 4, 2025

Blue Tide and Pennzoil-Quaker State have completed their new rerefinery in Baytown.

Base Stocks Adjust to Changing Markets

Base Stocks Adjust to Changing Markets

April 2, 2025

Steve Haffner explores how advances in additive and base stock technology have impacted base oil demand and how they wil ...

Rerefined Base Oils Step into the Light

Rerefined Base Oils Step into the Light

February 3, 2025

How have rerefined base oils benefitted the industry up until now, and how might they help to secure the future of the i ...

Vertex Settles EPA Commitments

Vertex Settles EPA Commitments

January 1, 2025

Vertex settled its compliance obligations with the US EPA as part of bankruptcy proceedings.

ReGen III Secures More Funding

ReGen III Secures More Funding

November 27, 2024

Waste oil rerefiner ReGen III aims to be the world’s largest producer of regenerated API Group III base oil when the ...

Denmark Refinery Undergoing Expansion

Denmark Refinery Undergoing Expansion

November 20, 2024

Madrid – Avista Green will undertake an expansion of its used lubricant rerefinery in Kalundborg, Denmark, and aims to ...

Pentas Flora Upgrades Rerefinery

Pentas Flora Upgrades Rerefinery

November 20, 2024

View from Banting, Malaysia, site of Pentas Flora’s waste oil rerefinery.

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Chile Mandates Lubricant Recycling

November 20, 2024

Chile recently adopted an extended responsibility law that will require lubricant suppliers to ensure that their product ...

Clean Harbors Ups Collection Fees

Clean Harbors Ups Collection Fees

November 13, 2024

Clean Harbors Inc. warned customers that it has “significantly” raised waste oil collection fees to offset depressed ...

November Base Oil Report

November Base Oil Report

November 4, 2024

Geopolitical conflict, severe weather systems, a longshoremen’s strike and more induced some anxiety in the base oil m ...

Italy’s Model for Waste Oil Regeneration

Italy’s Model for Waste Oil Regeneration

October 30, 2024

Italy is the European Union’s leading collector and regenerator of waste oil, said the head of the country's waste oil ...

Recycler Vertex Files for Bankruptcy

Recycler Vertex Files for Bankruptcy

October 2, 2024

Vertex Energy Inc., a renewable fuels and environmental services company, filed for bankruptcy last week after its attem ...

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Exxon Enters French Rerefining Arena

September 30, 2024

ExxonMobil's French subsidiary Esso Societe Anonyme Francaise will start rerefining base oil at its Port Jerome facility ...

Petromaca Builds Rerefinery in Venezuela

Petromaca Builds Rerefinery in Venezuela

September 18, 2024

Venezuelan petrochemical and environmental management company Petromaca’s rerefinery is the latest used lubricant recy ...

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The Arduous Path of Rerefining in Asia

August 14, 2024

As global environmental concerns and sustainability efforts continue to grow, many governments have started to implement ...

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Avista, IFP Urge Price Support in India

July 10, 2024

Avista Oil and IFP Petro – two companies partnering to develop a waste lubricant rerefinery in India – said recently ...

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Clean Harbors Stock Continues Climb

July 3, 2024

Clean Harbors Inc.'s stock price edged past U.S.$220 per share this week, up by more than 140% since July 2022. The comp ...