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IOCL Starts Chennai Lube Complex
Cars in Mumbai, India – a rapidly growing market for Infineum’s products. ©Manoej Paateel / shutterstock

IOCL Starts Chennai Lube Complex

January 21, 2025

Indian Oil Corporation Ltd started the trial run at its new integrated lubricant complex at Manali, Chennai. Once fully ...

Ingevity Mulls Industrial Product Line Selloff

Ingevity Mulls Industrial Product Line Selloff

January 21, 2025

Ingevity is considering divesting from certain performance chemicals industrial specialties product lines at its site in ...

Fuchs Buys Boss Lubricants

Fuchs Buys Boss Lubricants

January 15, 2025

Fuchs Group acquired compatriot company Boss Lubricants GmbH & Co. KG., a family-owned and operated company based in ...

Perstorp Sets Up Dutch Ester Site

Perstorp Sets Up Dutch Ester Site

January 13, 2025

Perstorp will start making a new range of synthetic esters this year from its recently acquired production plant near Am ...

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ALS Buys Chemlube’s Lube Division

January 10, 2025

Advanced Lubrication Specialties has bought Chemlube International LLC’s lubricants division, which features a finishe ...

Shell Aims to Buy Raj Petro Specialities

Shell Aims to Buy Raj Petro Specialities

January 8, 2025

Shell awaits final approval from the Competition Commission of India before it can buy Raj Petro Specialities Private Lt ...

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Lubes Production and Sales Fell in Japan

January 1, 2025

Japan’s production and sales of finished lubricating oils both fell in November, compared to the same month of last ye ...

YPF Sells Brazil Lube Plant

YPF Sells Brazil Lube Plant

January 1, 2025

Argentina’s state-owned energy company YPF sold its finished lubricant factory near Sao Paul, Brazil, to local company ...

Career Moves: End of an Era at Liqui Moly

Career Moves: End of an Era at Liqui Moly

January 1, 2025

Who's working where in the lubricant industry.

Gulf Oil India Partners with Nayara Energy

Gulf Oil India Partners with Nayara Energy

January 1, 2025

Gulf Oil Lubricants India inked a three-year partnership with fuel retailer Nyara Energy to sell its entire automotive p ...

Fergana Starts New Refinery Units

Fergana Starts New Refinery Units

December 25, 2024

The Fergana refinery in Uzbekistan will start up a hydrogen generator to supply gas to a hydrocracker currently under co ...

U.S. Base Oil Demand Slumps, Exports Soar

U.S. Base Oil Demand Slumps, Exports Soar

December 25, 2024

Domestic base oil demand in the United States has steadily declined over the past two years, pushing suppliers to boost ...

Demand Dropping for Group I in Europe

Demand Dropping for Group I in Europe

December 18, 2024

Europe is still the biggest consumer and producer of API Group I base oils, even as demand is falling, leading to an ove ...

Perstorp Buys OQ’s Dutch Esters Plant

Perstorp Buys OQ’s Dutch Esters Plant

December 18, 2024

Swedish chemical company Perstorp last week announced it had bought OQ Chemicals’ Dutch esters manufacturing facility.

Ingevity Spends on Charleston Plant

Ingevity Spends on Charleston Plant

December 11, 2024

United States-based chemical maker Ingevity will invest more than U.S.$53 million into a facility near its headquarters ...

September U.S. Base Oil Imports Jump

September U.S. Base Oil Imports Jump

December 11, 2024

Lubricant makers in the United States gobbled up record quantities of imported base stocks in September, according to re ...

Fuchs Completes Strub Purchase

Fuchs Completes Strub Purchase

December 4, 2024

Fuchs Group completed the acquisition of the Swiss industrial lubricant company Strub. In Sepetmber, the company signed ...