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OQ Restarts Production at German Plants

May 7, 2024

OQ Chemicals today announced the restart of production at its German plants in Oberhausen and Marl after overcoming a re ...

Secondary Polyol Ester Technology: A Novel Base Oil Family for Developing Bio-Lubricants

Secondary Polyol Ester Technology: A Novel Base Oil Family for Developing Bio-Lubricants

April 30, 2024

VBASE Oil Co. has designed and evaluated a new family of high-performance sustainable base stocks. How can they be used, ...

Big Growth Seen for Immersion Cooling

Big Growth Seen for Immersion Cooling

April 9, 2024

Data center density and accompanying energy consumption continue to rapidly grow, highlighting needs for more efficient ...

Lubes’n’Greases February Issue Available

Lubes’n’Greases February Issue Available

February 10, 2024

Discover how extended producer responsibility in India might affect rerefining in the country, how the automotive indust ...

Lubes’n’Greases February Issue Available

Lubes’n’Greases February Issue Available

February 7, 2024

Discover how extended producer responsibility in India might affect rerefining in the country, how the automotive indust ...

Lubes’n’Greases February Issue Available

Lubes’n’Greases February Issue Available

February 6, 2024

Discover how extended producer responsibility in India might affect rerefining in the country, how the automotive indust ...

Crafting Biobased Fatty Acids from Food Waste

Crafting Biobased Fatty Acids from Food Waste

February 1, 2024

A Dutch startup may have discovered a new, more sustainable way to manufacture fatty acids using food waste as a feedsto ...

Savita Commissions Synthetic Ester Plant

Savita Commissions Synthetic Ester Plant

October 20, 2023

India’s Savita Oil Technologies Ltd. commissioned a new synthetic ester manufacturing plant, citing opportunities in n ...

Demand Growth Slows for Esters Used in Lubes

Demand Growth Slows for Esters Used in Lubes

October 18, 2023

The shift towards better quality lubricants has resulted in slower growth in demand for esters that are used in lubrican ...

Shell Acquires Transformer Fluid, Coolant Lines

Shell Acquires Transformer Fluid, Coolant Lines

October 10, 2023

Shell Lubricants acquired two product lines from United Kingdom-based M&I Materials Ltd. – one for synthetic and e ...

Tsuno Makes Esters from Used Cooking Oil

Tsuno Makes Esters from Used Cooking Oil

July 28, 2023

Tsuno Group, a Japanese chemical company, announced the launch of fatty acid esters made from used cooking oil. The lub ...

TAIF Plant Now Makes Esters, Polyalkylene Glycol

TAIF Plant Now Makes Esters, Polyalkylene Glycol

July 5, 2023

Russia’s only polyalphaolefins complex now can also produce polyalkylene glycols and complex esters, after completing ...

Oleochemicals Companies Step into Base Stocks Arena

Oleochemicals Companies Step into Base Stocks Arena

February 1, 2023

Many oleochemical producers are looking to increase their presence in the lubricants industry. How are factors such as p ...

Oleon Acquires Blending Plant in Texas

Oleon Acquires Blending Plant in Texas

December 7, 2022

Oleochemical producer Oleon acquired a blending plant in Conroe, Texas, the company announced this week. Oleon’s ester ...

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Peter Greven Boosts Esters Output

April 26, 2022

German oleochemical supplier Peter Greven GmbH announced last week that it has expanded ester production capacity at its ...

Custom Content in association with Oleon

Custom Content in association with Oleon

January 1, 2021

Performance without Compromise Esters have become almost synonymous with high-performance formulations used in demand ...

BASF Expands Esters Plant in China

BASF Expands Esters Plant in China

October 16, 2020

BASF said Monday that it will almost double synthetic ester base stocks production capacity at its Jinshan, China, site ...