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Conou Cuts Italian Tax on Lube Sales

August 23, 2022

An Italian association that promotes recycling of waste lubricants has sharply cut a finished lubricant tax designed to ...

Sales Up for HCC

Sales Up for HCC

August 3, 2022

Heritage-Crystal Clean’s oil business segment reported 45% higher revenue for its second fiscal quarter ending June 18 ...

Italy Recycles Close to Half of Lubricants

Italy Recycles Close to Half of Lubricants

July 26, 2022

Italy recycled 98% of used lubricating oils collected in the country in 2021 – the fifth straight year that it met or ...

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SK Signs on to Rerefining Effort

July 15, 2022

SK Lubricants and South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy signed a memorandum of understanding last week ...

Safety-Kleen Rebrands Base Oils

Safety-Kleen Rebrands Base Oils

June 8, 2022

Safety-Kleen has rebranded its rerefined base oils, putting them under the Kleen+ name that emphasizes their reduced car ...

Profits, Sales up for Vertex, Perimeter

Profits, Sales up for Vertex, Perimeter

May 25, 2022

Vertex Energy Inc. reported large increases in gross profit and revenues for its used motor oil collection and processin ...

Ecuador Program Beats Collection Goal

Ecuador Program Beats Collection Goal

April 27, 2022

Ecuador collected 4.1 million gallons of used lubricants in 2021 – a fifth of the amount of lubes it consumes – thro ...

Vertex Posts Jump in Earnings

Vertex Posts Jump in Earnings

March 16, 2022

Vertex Energy Inc. reported large increases in gross profit and revenues for the quarter ended Dec. 31 and full year 202 ...

Heritage-Crystal Clean Posts Sales Jump

Heritage-Crystal Clean Posts Sales Jump

March 9, 2022

Heritage-Crystal Clean’s oil business segment – including oil collection and rerefining activities and sales of recy ...

Calumet Posts Bigger Losses

Calumet Posts Bigger Losses

March 2, 2022

Calumet Specialty Products Partners L.P. reported a steeper net loss for the quarter ending Dec. 1 and the full year of ...

China Moves to the Top of the Heap

China Moves to the Top of the Heap

February 22, 2022

A new nation is king of the hill in terms of base oil capacity, after China surpassed the United States in 2021 followin ...

Rerefiners Rebounding from Pandemic

Rerefiners Rebounding from Pandemic

February 15, 2022

Rerefiners of used lubricants suffered some of the same problems that have impacted producers of virgin base oils during ...

Base Oil Rerefiners Rebounding from Pandemic

Base Oil Rerefiners Rebounding from Pandemic

February 1, 2022

The pandemic wreaked havoc on the base oil market, but rerefiners may have emerged stronger than ever.

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Slicker Buys Hydrodec Rerefinery

November 24, 2021

Transformer oil recycler Hydrodec and its Ohio rerefinery were acquired by United Kingdom-based Slicker Recycling Ltd., ...

Profits Rise for Vertex Recycling Unit

Profits Rise for Vertex Recycling Unit

November 24, 2021

Vertex Energy Inc. reported higher gross profit and increased revenues for the quarter ended Sept. 30 for its used motor ...

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Earnings Up for HollyFrontier, Clean Harbors

November 3, 2021

HollyFrontier Corp.’s lubricants and specialty products segment reported large increases in income and revenue from op ...

Profits Down for Afton, Sales up for HCC

Profits Down for Afton, Sales up for HCC

October 27, 2021

Afton Chemical reported a lower operating profit despite increased sales – citing such factors as rising costs for raw ...

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Vertex Sale to Safety-Kleen Progresses

October 13, 2021

Vertex Energy shareholders voted in favor of its proposed sale of used motor oil collection and recycling assets – inc ...