Equipment

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

Will PTFE be banned in the coming years, and how might increasing regulation affect lubricant formulations? What did North American lubricant demand l ...

Nynas AB has entered a partnership with waste management firm Stena Recycling to collect, process and reuse used electrical transformer fluid. Under t ...

Vietnam this week enacted an extended producer responsibility law requiring suppliers of lubricants and other materials to take steps to recycle them. ...

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

Lubricating oil producers in Chile will need to organize programs to collect and recycle waste oil under a decree approved last month by the country ...

Will PTFE be banned in the coming years, and how might increasing regulation affect lubricant formulations? What did North American lubricant demand l ...

Will PTFE be banned in the coming years, and how might increasing regulation affect lubricant formulations? What did North American lubricant demand l ...

Will PTFE be banned in the coming years, and how might increasing regulation affect lubricant formulations? What did North American lubricant demand l ...

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 liters (54,000 metric tons) per ...

Latvia’s national agency for waste management recently unveiled a campaign to improve handling of waste oil and to strengthen regulation of its coll ...

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

Fuchs Group opened a 20,000 metric tons per year lubricants blending plant in Vietnam to serve growing demand in the region and to speed its response ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

India rerefiner IFP Petro Products announced last week that it has entered a partnership with Germany-based Avista Oil AG to expand its rerefining and ...