Finished Lubricants

Shareholders of lithium suppliers Livent Corp. and Allkem Ltd. both approved their proposed merger this month, the last main steps in a deal expected ...

Heat management is a big challenge in the information technology industry – especially in data centers, which are proliferating. To solve the challe ...

A base oil rerefinery that opened recently in Severodvinsk, Russia, may not be large, but it appears to be the northernmost such facility in the world ...

Chinese lubricant marketer Lopal Tech Co. reported that increases in the average selling prices by its lubricants segment allowed the unit to overcome ...

Graphene Manufacturing Group Ltd. commissioned a natural gas-to-graphene production plant in Richlands, Australia, that is intended to make different ...

Saudi Aramco signed definitive agreements to acquire a 40% equity stake in Gas & Oil Pakistan Ltd. – a diversified downstream fuels, lubricants ...

Lubricating oil producers in Chile will need to organize programs to collect and recycle waste oil under a decree approved last month by the country ...

Lanxess completed an expansion at its Mannheim, Germany, factory of production capacity for sustainable light-color sulfur carriers – used as extrem ...

A project to upgrade Uzbekistan’s only base oil plant has been delayed and is now scheduled to be completed in 2025, instead of 2024, according to a ...

South Korea’s GS Caltex reported a 52% third quarter drop in operating profit for its lubricants and base oils business, noting a decline in the spr ...

Fuchs Expands in South Africa

December 11, 2023

Fuchs Lubricants announced it is investing 218 million rand (U.S. $11.4 million) in the second phase of an expansion that will increase production cap ...

Shell and Mobil remain two of the three most popular motor oil brands in Russia, despite Shell and ExxonMobil exiting the country following its 2022 i ...

China’s government will prohibit the use of short-chain chlorinated paraffins beginning Jan. 1, aligning with numerous other countries that have out ...

Blender Hi-Tech Lubricants reported strong rebounds in net profit and operating profit for its lubricants segment in the quarter ended Sept. 30, while ...

UMW Moves to Bigger Plant

December 8, 2023

Independent toll blender UMW Lubetech Sdn. has increased its production capacity by more than two-thirds to 60 million liters (54,000 metric tons) per ...

Chemical company Novvi LLC filed what it described as a voluntary bankruptcy petition Sunday, stating that it intends to repay all outstanding externa ...

Sintec Expands Grease Plant

December 5, 2023

Russian lubricant producer Sintec Group recently doubled the size of its grease plant, increasing production capacity to 12,000 metric tons per year i ...

A Germany-based leading testing service provider validated a methodology co-developed by the Union of the European Lubricant Industry and the Technica ...

Despite an imminent decline in demand for passenger car motor oil, the North American lubricants market may be on the up and up.

The Hidden Side of Viscosity

December 4, 2023

What is viscosity, and how has the quest to lower it affected engine oil formulations?