Equipment

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Russian Blender Makes Metal Containers

March 12, 2024

Russian lubricant blender United Petrochemicals opened a line that produces metal motor oil containers designed to comba ...

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Lack of Upkeep Hampers Turkmenbashi

February 13, 2024

Turkmenistan’s only base oil plant has been running at less than half of its 150,000 metric tons per year capacity due ...

Lubes’n’Greases January Issue Available

Lubes’n’Greases January Issue Available

January 10, 2024

Will PTFE be banned in the coming years, and how might increasing regulation affect lubricant formulations? What did Nor ...

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Nynas, Stena Link to Recycle Transformer Fluid

January 9, 2024

Nynas AB has entered a partnership with waste management firm Stena Recycling to collect, process and reuse used electri ...

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Vietnam Requires Lube Suppliers to Recycle

January 5, 2024

Vietnam this week enacted an extended producer responsibility law requiring suppliers of lubricants and other materials ...

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Rerefinery Opens Near Arctic Circle

December 26, 2023

A base oil rerefinery that opened recently in Severodvinsk, Russia, may not be large, but it appears to be the northernm ...

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Chile Raises Waste Oil Recycling Targets

December 20, 2023

Lubricating oil producers in Chile will need to organize programs to collect and recycle waste oil under a decree approv ...

Lubes’n’Greases December Issue Available

Lubes’n’Greases December Issue Available

December 15, 2023

Will PTFE be banned in the coming years, and how might increasing regulation affect lubricant formulations? What did Nor ...

Lubes’n’Greases December Issue Available

Lubes’n’Greases December Issue Available

December 13, 2023

Will PTFE be banned in the coming years, and how might increasing regulation affect lubricant formulations? What did Nor ...

Lubes’n’Greases December Issue Available

Lubes’n’Greases December Issue Available

December 11, 2023

Will PTFE be banned in the coming years, and how might increasing regulation affect lubricant formulations? What did Nor ...

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UMW Moves to Bigger Plant

December 8, 2023

Independent toll blender UMW Lubetech Sdn. has increased its production capacity by more than two-thirds to 60 million l ...

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Latvia Tightens Waste Oil Collection Regs

October 23, 2023

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

Podcast 13: The Sound of the Blending Revolution

Podcast 13: The Sound of the Blending Revolution

October 2, 2023

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

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Fuchs Opens Vietnam Blending Plant

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 ...

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Timken Buys Filtration Products Maker Des-Case

September 13, 2023

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

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Virtual Lab Aims to Optimize Formulations

September 6, 2023

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

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Calls in Russia for More Waste Oil Recycling

August 22, 2023

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

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Report Sees Dual Sustainability Roles for Lubes

August 2, 2023

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