Lanxess said this week that it will expand its output of aminic antioxidants for lubricants at a chemical factory in Taiwan. The German chemical compa ...

Vertex Energy shareholders voted in favor of its proposed sale of used motor oil collection and recycling assets – including two rerefineries – to ...

ExxonMobil Synthetics today announced plans to expand the production capacity of its metallocene high viscosity polyalphaolefin plant in Baytown, Texa ...

Shell broke ground last week on the new building and storage facility that will house the capacity expansion of its 180,000-tons-per-year blending pla ...

Sinopec has finally started up an API Group II base oil unit at its Yanshan Petrochemical refining complex, eight years after the unit was built. The ...

U.S. Base Oil Production Continues on the Path to Recovery The COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on United States base oil production during the firs ...

In the Eye of the Storm One of the unrelenting concerns for base oil market participants over the past several months was the fact that both buyers ...

African Fuels & Lubricants Manufacturing Ltd. of the Tristar Group will blend, distribute and market Chevron Brands International LLC’s Caltex l ...

Kazakhstan is working on several new petrochemical refining projects carrying a combined price tag of U.S. $12 billion, and some of them – including ...

Chinese grease producer Hengmei Technology Grease Co. still plans to establish a lubricant blending plant in Pakistan’s Balochistan Province as part ...

The search for a new operator for the Isla Refinery in Willemstad, Curacao, may be on once again as the government’s patience wears thin with its la ...

The United States lubricant industry seemed to largely dodge a major scare as facilities along the Gulf of Mexico coast appeared to have avoided serio ...

From the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic to frequentsevere weather, the past few years have presented noshortage of obstacles for the lubricants in ...

Ken Hope, global polyalphaolefins technical services manager for Chevron Phillips Chemical, assumed the role of the Society of Tribologists and Lubric ...

Stalled negotiations are once again threatening Refineria di Korsou’s years-long search to find a new operator for the Isla Refinery in Willemstad, ...

An operator of a chain of automobile maintenance stores announced last week that it has opened one of the largest privately owned lubricant blending p ...

Automobile distributor Ifad Group was recently allotted 30 acres in a Bangladesh industrial park where it plans to build a manufacturing complex that ...

Axel Christiernsson Group announced on July 15 that it is proceeding with an additional expansion and improvement plan across its three grease plants ...

GP Global disclosed recently that it has tabled plans to build a lubricant blending plant in Saronda, India, because of economic uncertainties stemmin ...

France’s Ministry of Ecology last week implemented a system giving increased regulatory scrutiny to industrial sites that have had accidents or a hi ...