Blending & Manufacturing Equipment

The Importance of Equipment Reliability
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The Importance of Equipment Reliability

July 1, 2024

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

Cold Blending Is a Step Toward Sustainability

Cold Blending Is a Step Toward Sustainability

July 1, 2024

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

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Industrial Projects to Build Lube Plant in Russia

May 21, 2024

Russian company Industrial Projects expressed intentions last week to build a lubricant blending plant in the Rostov obl ...

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Chinese Blenders Aim to Differentiate

April 26, 2024

Major Chinese blenders believe investing in differentiation, efficiency and expansion is the only way to attract big cli ...

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Lukoil Builds Grease and Additives Plant

April 9, 2024

Lukoil broke ground recently on a grease, metalworking fluids and lubricant additives production facility in Volgograd.

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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 ...

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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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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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Indian Oil Enters Joint Venture in Nepal

June 9, 2023

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

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Hill Plans Rerefinery in Lithuania

June 6, 2023

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

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Algerian Distributor Opens Blending Plant

May 30, 2023

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

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Blending Plant Opened in Turkmenistan

May 5, 2023

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

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Two Blending Plants Announced in Turkey

May 2, 2023

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

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Terpel Invests in Peru Blending Plant

April 19, 2023

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

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ExxonMobil to Build Blending Plant in India

April 7, 2023

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

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TotalEnergies Relinquishes Russia Plant

March 14, 2023

French oil major TotalEnergies handed over management of its Russia lubricant business to a Russian entity, and the tran ...

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Dongfeng Castrol JV Plant Starts Production

February 24, 2023

The Dongfeng Castrol Oil Products Co. Ltd. joint venture announced early last month the first batch trial lubricants pro ...