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Thailand Picked for Biobased Acids Plant
View from an aerial drone of trucks loaded with sugar cane in a parking zone outside a sugar cane factory. © 99Art

Thailand Picked for Biobased Acids Plant

Lube Report Asia - January 27, 2023

French biochemical company Afyren and Thai sugar producer Mitr Phol Group will partner to establish a biorefinery in Tha ...

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Butylene Oxide Plant Being Built in China

Lube Report Asia - September 23, 2022

Sinopec’s Yanshan Petrochemical is installing a production line to make butylene oxide, a chemical intermediate used t ...

Perstorp Announces Another Expansion

Perstorp Announces Another Expansion

Lube Report EMEA - April 12, 2022

Specialty chemical supplier Perstorp AB will build a new plant at an existing site in Sweden to bring an additional 70,0 ...

KH Neochem Approves Expansion

KH Neochem Approves Expansion

Lube Report Asia - December 31, 2021

The board of directors of Japan’s KH Neochem Co. decided on Dec. 27 to invest ¥9.5 billion at its manufacturing plant ...

Profits Jump at KH Neochem, Yushiro

Profits Jump at KH Neochem, Yushiro

Lube Report Asia - November 26, 2021

In Japan, KH Neochem Co. and metalworking fluid and industrial oil producer Yushiro Chemical Industry Co. both reported ...

A Quieter, Colder New World

A Quieter, Colder New World

Lubes'n'Greases - October 4, 2021

Federal and state regulations for fuel economy and emissions of passenger cars, light- and heavy-duty trucks, and buses ...

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Oxea Boosts Isononanoic Acid Capacity

Lube Report EMEA - October 13, 2020

OQ Chemicals – formerly Oxea – recently completed an expansion at its site in Oberhausen, Germany, increasing its is ...

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Keeping Our Cool

Lubes'n'Greases - April 29, 2020

As climate change causes the world to heat up, refrigerants with low global warming potential—and compatible lubricant ...