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Latvia Tightens Waste Oil Collection Regs
Traffic on streets in Riga, Latvia. Riga is the country’s capital and largest city. © Emvat Mosakovskis

Latvia Tightens Waste Oil Collection Regs

Lube Report EMEA - October 23, 2023

Latvia’s national agency for waste management recently unveiled a campaign to improve handling of waste oil and to str ...

Podcast: The Sound of the Blending Revolution

Podcast: The Sound of the Blending Revolution

Lubes'n'Greases - October 2, 2023

The cost of powering a blending plant is immense. The power of sound could be the solution.

Fuchs Opens Vietnam Blending Plant

Fuchs Opens Vietnam Blending Plant

Lube Report Asia - September 15, 2023

Fuchs Group opened a 20,000 metric tons per year lubricants blending plant in Vietnam to serve growing demand in the reg ...

Timken Buys Filtration Products Maker Des-Case

Timken Buys Filtration Products Maker Des-Case

Lube Report Americas - September 13, 2023

The Timken Co. acquired Des-Case Corp., a Nashville, Tennessee-based manufacturer of specialty filtration products for i ...

Virtual Lab Aims to Optimize Formulations

Virtual Lab Aims to Optimize Formulations

Lube Report EMEA - September 6, 2023

Researchers at Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials say they have developed a virtual lab to pred ...

Calls in Russia for More Waste Oil Recycling

Calls in Russia for More Waste Oil Recycling

Lube Report EMEA - August 22, 2023

Approximately 500,000 metric tons of waste lubricants are collected in Russia each year, but the vast majority is reused ...

Report Sees Dual Sustainability Roles for Lubes

Report Sees Dual Sustainability Roles for Lubes

Lube Report Americas - August 2, 2023

Like businesses in many industries, lubricant companies are busy looking for ways to reduce amounts of greenhouse gases ...

Indian Oil Enters Joint Venture in Nepal

Indian Oil Enters Joint Venture in Nepal

Lube Report Asia - June 9, 2023

Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. and Nepal’s Golchha Group signed a joint venture agreement to manufacture lubricants in the Himi ...

Hill Plans Rerefinery in Lithuania

Hill Plans Rerefinery in Lithuania

Lube Report EMEA - June 6, 2023

Kazakhstan’s Hill Group expects to break ground in Lithuania soon on an API Group II base oil rerefinery. The project ...

Avista Partners with IFP Petro in India

Avista Partners with IFP Petro in India

Lube Report Asia - June 2, 2023

India rerefiner IFP Petro Products announced last week that it has entered a partnership with Germany-based Avista Oil A ...

Algerian Distributor Opens Blending Plant

Algerian Distributor Opens Blending Plant

Lube Report EMEA - May 30, 2023

Aiming to serve what it describes as a vibrant Algerian transportation market, petroleum products distributor Petro Bara ...

Lube Formulation, Tribology Draw Young People

Lube Formulation, Tribology Draw Young People

Lube Report Americas - May 24, 2023

Lubrication formulation and tribology face a number of pressing challenges, and this is helping attract young people to ...

Spain Maintains Waste Lube Recycling Rate

Spain Maintains Waste Lube Recycling Rate

Lube Report EMEA - May 16, 2023

Spain in 2022 once again rerefined more than three-quarters of its collected used oil back into base stocks, according t ...

Blending Plant Opened in Turkmenistan

Blending Plant Opened in Turkmenistan

Lube Report Asia - May 5, 2023

An industry association in Turkmenistan recently opened a finished lubricant factory, according to a news release by the ...

Two Blending Plants Announced in Turkey

Two Blending Plants Announced in Turkey

Lube Report EMEA - May 2, 2023

Petronobel Mineral Oils San and Tic A.S. announced plans last week to build a lubricant blending plant in an industrial ...

Terpel Invests in Peru Blending Plant

Terpel Invests in Peru Blending Plant

Lube Report Americas - April 19, 2023

Colombian oil and gas company Terpel is making investments to expand production capacity at its blending plant in Peru, ...

ExxonMobil to Build Blending Plant in India

ExxonMobil to Build Blending Plant in India

Lube Report Asia - April 7, 2023

Citing the opportunity of a growing market, ExxonMobil announced Friday that it will invest nearly Rs 900 crore to build ...