Plants & Equipment

Nigerian energy company Ardova has opened a sparkling new lubricant blending plant in Apapa, a district of the capital Lagos.

Running a Lubricant Plant

December 2, 2024

A lot goes into running a successful lubricant plant, but good leadership might be the most important factor.

An investigation is ongoing into the cause of a fire at Axel Royal’s Tulsa factory last Tuesday. The blaze sent plumes of black smoke into the air, ...

Oil giant ExxonMobil will fork out U.S.$200 million on expanding recycling operations at its Beaumont and Baytown refineries in Texas. The company ...

View from Banting, Malaysia, site of Pentas Flora’s waste oil rerefinery.

Emerson’s Izzy Rivera outlines some essential strategies designed to optimize return on investment in maintenance.

TPC announced its chemical plant in Houston has increased its capacity to make di-isobutylene, in response to growing demand from refrigerant lubrican ...

British oil major Shell’s plans to convert a hydrocracker at its Wesseling, Germany, refinery into a production unit for API Group III base oil now ...

Exxon Opens UK Distribution Hub

September 18, 2024

ExxonMobil is opening a new supply terminal in Dagenham, United Kingdom, providing an extension in the supply chain for its API Group II base oil plan ...

The state’s acquisition of the Sapref refinery in Durban could revive local base oils production in South Africa’s import-dependent lubricant mark ...

An industry veteran describes how lubricant blenders can challenge conventional thinking to better satisfy their needs now and in the future.

Lubrizol Corp. announced plans to build a U.S. $200 million factory in India to make chemical additives for lubricants and automotive and industrial f ...

Industrial process fluid company Quaker Houghton broke ground last week on a new manufacturing facility in Zhangjiagang, China. The facility will expa ...

People living within a three-mile radius of the Chemtool plant in Rockton, Illinois, may be eligible for a U.S. $94.5 million settlement if they were ...

Smartcorr explains how equipment reliability can mitigate financial losses, environmental damage and safety hazards.

How can a novel blending process reduce the carbon footprint of lubricant manufacturing operations?

Shell announced last week that it has completed an expansion of its grease manufacturing plant in Bangkok, tripling the facility’s production capaci ...

Lucas Oil last week announced that it will open a grease production unit at its lubricant factory  in Indiana later this summer.

Bericap, a manufacturing of closures for lubricant containers and other applications, announced last week that it has opened a factory in Nairobi.

A Costa Rican lubricant company this week opened what it claims to be the first waste lubricant refinery in Central America.