Plants & Equipment

BPCL Tenders for New Lube Units at Bina Refinery

BPCL Tenders for New Lube Units at Bina Refinery

June 18, 2025

Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. intends to install a base oil unit and a finished lubricant blending plant at its refinery ...

Industry 4.0: The Lubricants Industry Enters the Digital World

Industry 4.0: The Lubricants Industry Enters the Digital World

June 5, 2025

The implementation of Industry 4.0 in automation technologies is expected to increase the need for lubricants in advance ...

Zeller+Gmelin Opens Lube Plant in China

Zeller+Gmelin Opens Lube Plant in China

June 3, 2025

Zeller+Gmelin, a chemical company based in Germany, has opened a lubricant production facility in Huzhou, China, as part ...

Ethanolamines Plant in Nanjing Back on in May

Ethanolamines Plant in Nanjing Back on in May

May 28, 2025

Operations at the joint BASF-Sinopec ethanolamines plant in Nanjing are expected to resume at the end of May.

Fuchs’ New Brazil Plant Signals Latin America Push

Fuchs’ New Brazil Plant Signals Latin America Push

May 28, 2025

Fuchs Petrolub SE, the German lubricants manufacturer, is investing more than 220 million Brazilian real (U.S.$39 millio ...

Luberef Replaces Catalyst Amid Lower Q1 Revenue

Luberef Replaces Catalyst Amid Lower Q1 Revenue

May 7, 2025

Saudi-based base oil producer Luberef completed the replacement of its hydrocracker catalyst at its Yanbu site.

Gazprom Opens White Oils Plant

Gazprom Opens White Oils Plant

May 7, 2025

Gazpromneft-Lubricants starts white oils production in Russia.

Navigating the Future

Navigating the Future

April 30, 2025

Kline & Co.’s David Tsui explains how sustainability, resiliency and specification upgrades will impact the global lub ...

TIMWOOD: The Unsung Powerhouse in Operations Excellence

TIMWOOD: The Unsung Powerhouse in Operations Excellence

April 30, 2025

Industry veteran Ganesan Ganapathi outlines how employing the TIMWOOD principle can help to eliminate waste and increase ...

New Perstorp Lab in Shanghai

New Perstorp Lab in Shanghai

April 28, 2025

Perstorp and BRB have opened a new research laboratory in Shanghai, China.

Shell’s Wesseling Plant Producing by 2028

Shell’s Wesseling Plant Producing by 2028

April 16, 2025

Shell expects base oil production at its Wesseling refinery to start in 2028.

Big Ramp Up at Fuchs Spain

Big Ramp Up at Fuchs Spain

March 19, 2025

Fuchs Spain has increased production capacity by 25% at the company's Castellbisbal plant in Catalonia.

Additive

Richful, Farabi Build Saudi Additive Plant

March 19, 2025

Richful Lube Additive Co. and Farabi Petrochemicals have inked an agreement to build the first full-fledged lubricant ad ...

What’s Next for Polymer Dissolving Technology?

What’s Next for Polymer Dissolving Technology?

March 3, 2025

Gero Thalemann explains how a new, patented polymer dissolving process can improve lubricant quality while increasing pr ...

Additive

Sinopec Makes Marine Lubes in Tianjin

February 26, 2025

Sinopec has opened a production unit making marine lubricants and hydraulic fluids at its finished lube blending plant i ...

Fuchs Finishes South Africa Expansion

Fuchs Finishes South Africa Expansion

February 26, 2025

Fuchs Group inaugurated its expanded production facility in South Africa after shelling out €26 million to add new equ ...