Plants & Equipment

The new president of the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers said such professional organizations can play meaningful roles in helping i ...

Shell is negotiating with an unidentified party to sell its lubricant blending plant in Torzhok, Russia, along with its network of fuel stations in th ...

Companies in China’s lubricant industry are striving to continue delivering products to clients during stringent government lockdowns – imposed in ...

New engine oil performance categories mean renewed attention to the testing protocols that accompany them. Discover how one company is making sure tha ...

Sinopec’s Yanshan Petrochemical Co. has begun producing API Group III base oils, joining the growing list of Chinese refiners that claim to make Gro ...

An Illinois judge on Monday approved an order holding Lubrizol’s Chemtool Inc. responsible for cleaning up the site of its former grease and additiv ...

German oleochemical supplier Peter Greven GmbH announced last week that it has expanded ester production capacity at its factory in Bad Muenstereifel, ...

An expansion of the Nanjing, China, petrochemical joint venture between BASF and Sinopec will bring the site’s capacity for ethanolamine production ...

TotalEnergies has opened a lubricant blending plant on Algeria’s Mediterranean coast to cater to the growing market in that country. The plant, loca ...

Seven weeks into Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the number of foreign businesses vowing to leave Russia or scale back there continues to grow ...

Evonik said March 30 that it has invested at least €10 million to increase capacity for isobutene derivatives by more than 50 percent at its site in ...

Sara Lefcourt explains how the crisis in Ukraine may affect your business and offers tips for managing the situation.

Ted Selby, founder of the Savant Group and a giant in the field of lubricant testing, died Monday at the age of 93. Over a career of more than six dec ...

China National Offshore Oil Corp. is finalizing plans for a large base oil expansion at its refinery in Taizhou, Jiangsu province – part of an effor ...

Al-Manar, an Egyptian automotive parts dealer and lubricant blender, announced it started operations at a new production facility last week. The plant ...

Specialty chemical supplier Perstorp AB will begin this month to produce isononanoic acids at its factory in Stenungsund, Sweden. The Malmo, Sweden-ba ...

Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. said it has begun designing a pilot factory that will use materials from plants to make what it calls sustainable methyl met ...

A 10-month lockout at ExxonMobil’s Beaumont, Texas, refinery and lubricant plant is over after union workers voted Monday to accept a contract with ...

Following a handful of failures, Refineria di Kursou is once again starting another search of a new operator for the Isla Refinery. But RdK, the gover ...

The South African base oil market will become completely import-dependent from March when Sapref – the joint venture between BP and Shell – halts ...