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Nigeria Plots Lube Industrys Future

Lubes'n'Greases EMEA - October 21, 2014

Nigeria held its first Lubricant Summit in Lagos in August to discuss the state of the industry and plan the sectors fut ...

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Trecora Gets Wax Maker SSI Chusei

Lube Report - October 8, 2014

Specialty chemicals manufacturer Trecora Resources closed last week on a $73 million acquisition of Schumann/Steiers Tex ...

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Big Wax Plant Opening in India

Lube Report Asia - August 19, 2014

Numaligarh Refinery Ltd. is preparing to open to open the largest wax plant in India - a 50,000 ton per year facility be ...

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Calumet Invests in La. GTL Plant

Lube Report - June 11, 2014

Calumet Specialty Products Partners invested as a joint venture partner in construction of a Lake Charles, La., commerci ...

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Are Europes Waxes Up to Snuff?

Lubes'n'Greases - January 3, 2014

Europe's Waxes: Up to Snuff? Production is sputtering, even as the region's appetite for petroleum waxes grows. Will the ...

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Calumet Clears the Air with EPA

Lube Report - November 13, 2013

In a settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency, Calumet Shreveport Lubricant and Waxes has agreed to pay a $32 ...

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Petroleum Wax Supply Melts

Lube Report - August 7, 2013

Petroleum wax made up just 73 percent of global wax supply in 2012, down from 90 percent in 2002, as API Group I capacit ...

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U.S. Base Oil Capacity Stays Steady

Lube Report - April 17, 2013

Base oil capacity in the United States totaled 218,000 barrels per day on Jan. 1, compared to 217,300 b/d a year earlier ...

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Is Wax Supply About to Gutter?

Lube Report - November 21, 2012

Paraffin wax, once a near-afterthought to base oil manufacturing, today is a valuable prop to API Group I refinery margi ...

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Lubrizol Sued Over Lockhart Acquisition

Lube Report - May 30, 2012

Z Technologies filed an antitrust suit against Lubrizol, alleging its acquisition of Lockharts wax oxidate business in 2 ...

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BASF Launches Wax Plant

Lube Report - April 11, 2012

BASF commissioned a new oxidized polyethylene waxes manufacturing plant at its Ludwigshafen site in Germany. The low-de ...