Plants & Equipment

The expansion of lube manufacturer Chem-Trends European headquarters near Munich will provide facilities and logistics functions for it and fellow Fre ...

Oil depot operator Linxan Petrochemical opened a blending plant Friday in the port city of Tianjin, China, with capacity to make 200,000 metric tons p ...

One person was killed and four others injured by an explosion last week at a metalworking fluids and chemicals complex operated by Ivhimprom in Ivanov ...

Hascol Petroleum, which claims to be one of the fastest-growing oil products suppliers in Pakistan, plans to open a lube and grease blending plant in ...

The base oil plant at Sinopecs refinery in Maoming, China, has completed an expansion and upgrade that gives it capacity of 400,000 metric tons per ye ...

An Azeri state investment promotion fund is pitching the idea of a small API Group II and Group III base oil plant to potential investors, according t ...

Singaporean lubricant manufacturer and trader United Global filed a preliminary offer document for an initial public offering on Catalist, a secondary ...

Pertamina became one of the worlds 30 largest lubricant companies by growing organically in its home market. Now the Indonesian company is turning to ...

BASF began making polyalkylene glycol-based base stocks and industrial lubricants at its new facility in Germany in May, positioning the company to ta ...

Kazakh lube maker Hill Corp.s base oil production project has moved forward after a previous unsuccessful bid to find a contractor, the company told L ...

United Kingdom-based Exol Lubricants will invest in packaging equipment at its Wednesbury, West Midlands facility, to meet increasing demand for the c ...

The Singapore Lube Park - a joint venture between Sinopec, Total and Shell - officially opened in the islands Tuas area last week. The facility includ ...

Calumet Specialty Products Partners L.P. confirmed a worker at its Shreveport, La., facility died from injuries suffered in an incident at the site la ...

South Korean specialty chemicals manufacturer Songwon Industrial Co. is expanding its product range of phenolic antioxidants for the Asian fuel and lu ...

Afton Chemical opened a lubricant additives factory in Singapore last week, joining the ongoing march of lubricant and additive suppliers to Asia and ...

Abu Dhabis state-owned petroleum products distribution firm will open a lubricants and greases plant by 2022 at Khalifa Ports Khalifa Industrial Zone ...

Hyrax Oil, of Malaysia, will construct a blending plant in Sri Lanka to supply lubricants for national oil company Ceylon Petroleum Corp. as part of a ...

Fuchs Petrolub is building a new lubricants blending plant in Suzhou, Chinas Wujiang district to replace a smaller existing plant in Shanghai. The new ...

Most car companies rely on lube producers for their factory-fill engine oils, but one Chinese automaker is committed to making its own. In late April, ...

Q8Oils, the downstream arm of Kuwait Petroleum International, last week opened its expanded and upgraded 111,000-metric tons per year lube blending pl ...