Chemical company BRB International announced last week the groundbreaking for a lubricant additive factory that it will operate Echt, Netherlands – ...

The COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on the United States base oil market during 2020. It was, as industry veteran Stephen Ames called it, the “year ...

Be Careful What You Wish For A little over year ago, when an unknown virus plunged the world into a pandemic, base oil market participants started ...

The American Petroleum Institute invoked provisional licensing this month for most active North American industry heavy-duty diesel engine oil specifi ...

Gen III Oil Corp. announced on Monday that it has contracted Koch Project Solutions to provide engineering, construction and licensed vendor teams for ...

Fuchs Petrolub SE opened a polyurea lubricating grease factory at its Kaiserslautern, Germany, site, the company announced last week. The new facility ...

A year and a half after a fire at a local lubricant additive factory, the northern France city of Rouen has adopted a system that will use SMS alerts ...

DuPont said last week that it is investing $40 million to construct specialty lubricant manufacturing units at existing factories in South Carolina an ...

Gazpromneft-Lubricants boosted the production capacity of its Moscow lubricants blending plant by 50% and introduced a significant level of automation ...

Three lubricant brands and two manufacturers of plastic containers announced yesterday the formation of the National Lubricant Container Recycling Coa ...

German lubricant Zeller+Gmelin said this week that it is expanding in China, relocating into a larger factory after agreeing to buy out its joint vent ...

OQ Chemicals said Monday that it was declaring force majeure for the supply of chemicals produced at its Bay City, Texas, plant after closing the faci ...

An Australian court last week ruled in favor of Australian rerefiner Southern Oil Refining in its litigation against transformer oil rerefiner Hydrode ...

Ineos declared force majeure last month on supply of low-viscosity polyalphaolefins after an unexpected disruption to feedstock supply involving facil ...

Lukoil last week commissioned a new API Group II base oil plant at its refinery in Volgograd, Russia. The 10 billion ruble (U.S. $132 million) investm ...

Picture a refinery and you probably think of the endless industrial landscape of the Texas Gulf Coast, not the rolling hills and pine forests of Anato ...

While the novel coronavirus pandemic has impacted the lubricants industry in some unexpected ways—by motivating some lube manufacturers to temporari ...

Russian oil major Gazprom Neft started construction last week on a modernization of an obsolete base oil plant at its refinery in Omsk, Western Siberi ...

The parent company of SK Lubricants is looking for partners for base oil and chemical joint ventures, according to a New Year’s address by its CEO. ...

Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. opened a lubricant blending plant in Kolkata last month, saying the plant will support and benefit the economic development of E ...