Biobased Lubricants

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API Drafts Sustainable Practice for Lubes

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

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

July 15, 2022

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

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Cosmo Product Gains Biomass Mark

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

May 2, 2022

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

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Forestry Forecast to Use More Biolubes

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

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

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

December 10, 2021

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

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India Palm Oil Imports Expected to Rise

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 ...

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Tax Change to Aid Malaysian Palm Producers

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

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

August 20, 2021

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

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India Cuts Palm Oil Import Duty

July 23, 2021

India implemented a temporary cut in the duty charged on palm oil imports, part of an effort to offset a sharp run-up in ...

The Beauty of Being Biobased

The Beauty of Being Biobased

June 10, 2021

Lubes'n'Greases talked to Mark Miller, the CEO of Biosynthetic Technologies, about the sustainability of his company’s ...

Thailand to Boost Bio-lubes, Palm Oil

Thailand to Boost Bio-lubes, Palm Oil

May 21, 2021

Thailand’s central government is working to develop its palm oil industry, and the strategy includes promoting demand ...

Sustainability Strikes Again

Sustainability Strikes Again

May 3, 2021

Additive technology goes green. Green additives are escaping their hamster wheel of low volumes, high costs, incremen ...

U.S. Blocks Sime Darby Palm Oil

U.S. Blocks Sime Darby Palm Oil

January 8, 2021

The United States Customs and Border Protection agency last week announced a ban on palm oil produced in Malaysia by Sim ...