Biobased Lubricants

Making Bio-lubes from Cashew Shells
Black in color, cashew nut shell liquid is extracted during the process of obtaining the cashew nut kernel. Photo by Viktor Braga/UFC

Making Bio-lubes from Cashew Shells

Lube Report Americas - February 15, 2023

Creating bio-lubricants using the liquid by-product extracted during processing of cashew nuts is the subject of a new p ...

Outlook for Grease Working Groups

Outlook for Grease Working Groups

Lubes'n'Greases - January 3, 2023

NLGI and ELGI’s grease working groups stay busy. What are some of the latest and most pressing things on their to-do l ...

Kline Forecasts Growth for Bio-lubes

Kline Forecasts Growth for Bio-lubes

Lube Report Americas - December 14, 2022

Bio-lubricant demand in 14 major markets will outpace overall lubricant demand for at least the next decade, with demand ...

Shell Acquires Panolin’s Biolubes Business

Shell Acquires Panolin’s Biolubes Business

Lube Report EMEA - November 8, 2022

Shell agreed to acquire the environmentally considerate lubricants business of Switzerland-headquartered independent lub ...

API Drafts Sustainable Practice for Lubes

API Drafts Sustainable Practice for Lubes

Lube Report Americas - July 20, 2022

A special committee of the American Petroleum Institute is drafting a recommended practice for calculating the environme ...

Repsol Boosts Startup Nuspec

Repsol Boosts Startup Nuspec

Lube Report EMEA - July 19, 2022

Nuspec Oil, a United Kingdom-based company developing biobased base oils and advancing commercialization of novel rapese ...

Thailand Develops Palm Transformer Oil

Thailand Develops Palm Transformer Oil

Lube Report Asia - July 15, 2022

Thailand’s National Energy Technology Center is heading a consortium working to develop biobased transformer oils form ...

Cosmo Product Gains Biomass Mark

Cosmo Product Gains Biomass Mark

Lube Report Asia - June 10, 2022

Cosmo Energy Holdings Co. announced recently that its Carboneut-brand 10W-30 diesel engine oil became the first engine o ...

Bio-based and Sustainable: When They’re Synonyms and When They’re Not

Bio-based and Sustainable: When They’re Synonyms and When They’re Not

Lubes'n'Greases - May 2, 2022

Bio-based and sustainable lubricants are not always one and the same. What are the nuanced differences between them?

Forestry Forecast to Use More Biolubes

Forestry Forecast to Use More Biolubes

Lube Report Americas - April 27, 2022

The amount of biolubricants used in the forestry industry should increase in coming years, a new study by Freedonia says ...

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Thailand Wants Biolubes Industry

Lube Report Asia - March 11, 2022

Thai officials working to foster agriculture-based industry have highlighted lubricants as one of two types of products ...

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ExxonMobil Helps Scale Bio Base Stocks

Lube Report Americas - December 22, 2021

ExxonMobil entered a joint development agreement with biobased base stock manufacturer BioAccelergy to commercially scal ...

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Factory Will Make Castor Derivatives

Lube Report Asia - December 10, 2021

France-based Arkema announced on Monday a 50% increase in global capacity for its Oleris castor oil derivatives, which a ...

India Palm Oil Imports Expected to Rise

India Palm Oil Imports Expected to Rise

Lube Report Asia - November 12, 2021

Boosted by cuts in import duties, India’s palm oil exports are projected to rise 6% to 8.5 million tons for fiscal yea ...

Tax Change to Aid Malaysian Palm Producers

Tax Change to Aid Malaysian Palm Producers

Lube Report Asia - November 5, 2021

The government of Malaysia – the world’s second-largest palm oil producer – is raising the threshold of its windfa ...

Spotlight on Biobased Lubricants

Spotlight on Biobased Lubricants

Lubes'n'Greases - September 1, 2021

Entering an important phase for greener, more sustainable lubricants Gone are the days when biobased lubricants were ...

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Utility Buying Emery’s Asian Unit

Lube Report Asia - August 20, 2021

The joint venture owners of esters supplier Emery Oleochemicals have agreed to sell the Asia-Pacific portion of that bus ...