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

Fluor Corp. announced on Sept. 15 that it safely achieved mechanical completion of Valvoline’s lubricants blending plant in Zhangjiagang, China, ahe ...

Fuchs Lubricants announced that it is investing 250 million South African rand (U.S. $14.9 million) as part of a project to build a warehouse, offices ...

The United States base oil market is still waiting for information about the reopening of the Excel Paralubes plant in Westlake, Louisiana, after Hurr ...

Refineries in eastern Texas and Louisiana are closing or scaling back operations as an intensifying Hurricane Laura barrels toward the United States.

Idemitsu Kosan Co. opened its second wholly owned lubricant blending plant in China last week, a facility in the southern coastal city of Huizhou with ...

Joint venture Avista Green announced last week that its new base oil rerefinery in Kalundborg, Denmark was operational. The facility replaces an Avist ...

Total Lubricants last week announced an expansion plan to develop and upgrade its blending plant site in Ferrybridge in the United Kingdom.

A city on South Korea’s Jeju Island says a project that recovers waste lubricants generated by fishing vessels is helping to protect the local marin ...

A joint venture between Uzbekneftegaz and Russian energy giant Gazprom says it is moving forward with a previously announced revamp of a refinery in F ...

The next heavy-duty engine oil category in North America is not expected for seven years, and industry insiders worry that test hardware for existing ...

Africa recycles less of its used lubricants into base oils than other regions, and several obstacles stand in the way of increasing that amount, indus ...

Malaysias Petronas Lubricants International recently closed its lubricant blending plant near Buenos Aires, Argentina, and canceled plans to build a l ...

Maintenance shutdowns can trigger fear in the hearts of base oil and lubricant plant operators, but the right leadership approach could help avoid cos ...

Lubricating Specialties Co. Jamaica Ltd. plans to expand its Rockfort, Jamaica, facility to add a lubricants blending plant - its second in the Caribb ...

Ask a high school senior or soon-to-be college graduate about the career they intend to pursue, and its likely that lubricant manufacturing will not b ...

Hill Corp. recently finished building a used oil rerefinery and a small grease unit at its lubricant blending plant in Shymkent, in southern Kazakhsta ...

Biskra, Algeria-based Sarl Sopremac opened a lube oil blending plant in Algeria that has already begun production of multigrade motor oils and industr ...

Shell plans to invest $16 million to expand its lubricant blending and packaging plant in Brockville, Canada, according to an Ottawa newspapers report ...

An aftermarket product claiming to improve gear efficiency might sound like snake oil, but it could be just what the doctor ordered for power-hungry m ...