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 ...

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates – Takreer, the refining arm of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. has started commercial production of base oils at the ...

Japanese metalworking fluids manufacturer Yushiro Chemical Industry Co. expects to complete construction of two plants in China in the second half of ...

BASF announced the start-up last week of a new specialty amines plant in Nanjing, China. The facility will make dimethylaminopropylamines primarily fo ...

Clariant recently started up additional capacity for phosphate esters at its chemicals manufacturing site in Gendorf, Germany. Phosphate esters are co ...

Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd.s plan to build a blending plant at Chennai, India, is moving ahead once again and is on track to open by late 2017, com ...

ExxonMobil announced last week the completion of an expansion at its lubricants blending facility in Taicang, China, a response to long-term growth th ...

Fuchs Petrolub AG has announced it is expanding two production facilities in Australia, bucking the trend of rival lube and grease makers to move offs ...

Bensalem, Pennsylvania-based Advanced Lubrication Specialties received a loan through the Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority to acquire a 1 ...

Axel Americas manufacturing plant in Rosedale, Mississippi is operating at normal capacity after repairing damage that a Feb. 29 fire caused to new pr ...

Shell closed the API Group I base oil plant at its refinery in Pernis, Netherlands, in the first quarter this year, a company spokesperson told Lube R ...

Uzbek-Bulgarian joint venture Uz-Prista Recycling started its rerefinery in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in trial mode and scheduled a grand opening for May, ...

Croda International Plc plans to build a new production facility at its Chocques manufacturing site in northern France to increase capacity at the sit ...

Russian lube maker Rosneft more than doubled the output of its blending plant in its Angarsk refinery located in eastern Siberia. The company upgraded ...

Spanish multinational oil and gas company Cepsa opened a fully automated lubricants warehouse in San Roque, Cadiz province, to improve logistics. The ...

Savita Oil will soon complete a consolidation project that moves all of its lubricant manufacturing and storage operations to one facility in Silvassa ...

Filipino oil giant Petron said its lubes sales in Malaysia grew by double digits last year thanks to marketing at its service stations and increased b ...

Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. said yesterday it reached a final investment decision to expand low-viscosity polyalphaolefin capacity at its Cedar Bayo ...

When Royal Dutch Shell and Fuchs Petrolub opened Russias first foreign-owned lubricant factories, in 2012 and 2013, respectively, both companies wante ...