Today’s lube manufacturers blend hundreds of different products on the same equipment, necessitating periodic flushing to prevent cross-contaminatio ...

Arguments about who is responsible for lube-plant line wash finding its way into applications where it causes harm often echo the oversimplified logic ...

A one-time Quaker State plant in Newell, W.Va., now part of Shell, depends on both robots and its savvy human workforce to get the work done.

As noted in last months column, line wash is the material used to flush the lines and pipes when lubricant blenders switch production from one type of ...