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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 Usiquimica.

Who's working where in the lubricant industry.

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

The Fergana refinery in Uzbekistan will start up a hydrogen generator to supply gas to a hydrocracker currently under construction. The new units are ...

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

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

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

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

Lubricant makers in the United States gobbled up record quantities of imported base stocks in September, according to recent data published by the Ene ...

Fuchs Group completed the acquisition of the Swiss industrial lubricant company Strub. In Sepetmber, the company signed a letter of intent to absorb t ...

Vibra Expands Rio Plant

December 4, 2024

Brazilian lube company Vibra completed expansion works of its Lubrax lubricant plant in Duque de Caxias to the tune of $16.55 million.

Lots of chairs moving around in Europe in November, with some of the big companies filling positions across their businesses. In Germany, Thomas Klost ...

Running a Lubricant Plant

December 2, 2024

A lot goes into running a successful lubricant plant, but good leadership might be the most important factor.

Stop measuring business performance by volume sales, argues Yana Wilkinson, Kline & Co.’s energy practice lead.

An explosion at Turkish refinery Tupras injured 12 people. The incident happened during maintenance of a compressor.

German independent lubricant company Fuchs Petrolub SE has invested €11 million on improvements to the production center, labs and headquarters of i ...

S-Oil blamed a weaker won and tighter refining margins on its third quarter net loss. The same period in 2023 saw brisk business for the South Korean ...

October was a busy month for the industry’s human resources departments.

Emerson’s Izzy Rivera outlines some essential strategies designed to optimize return on investment in maintenance.

China’s lubricant industry stands to benefit from the government’s economic stimulus pledges aimed at stemming the current economic instability, s ...