Plants & Equipment

Lubes’n’Greases January Issue Available

Lubes’n’Greases January Issue Available

Lube Report Americas - January 10, 2024

Will PTFE be banned in the coming years, and how might increasing regulation affect lubricant formulations? What did Nor ...

Agreement Aims to Restart Curacao Refinery

Agreement Aims to Restart Curacao Refinery

Lube Report Americas - January 10, 2024

Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. and the owner of Refineria Isla have reached an agreement resolving a debt dispute and re-es ...

Vietnam Requires Lube Suppliers to Recycle

Vietnam Requires Lube Suppliers to Recycle

Lube Report Asia - January 5, 2024

Vietnam this week enacted an extended producer responsibility law requiring suppliers of lubricants and other materials ...

India’s Base Oil Supply Base Set to Jump

India’s Base Oil Supply Base Set to Jump

Lube Report Asia - January 5, 2024

India’s total base oil production capacity is set to jump in the next few years due to expansions by state-owned oil c ...

VMPAvto Opens Small Blending Plant

VMPAvto Opens Small Blending Plant

Lube Report EMEA - January 2, 2024

Russian lubricant maker VMPAvto, recently opened a small factory in Saint Petersburg’s heavily industrialized Kirovsky ...

Base Oils Said Unaffected by Porvoo Conversion

Base Oils Said Unaffected by Porvoo Conversion

Lube Report EMEA - January 2, 2024

Neste announced it will convert its Porvoo, Finland, crude oil refinery to process renewable feedstocks, but that change ...

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Richful Receives Warning from Securities Bureau

Lube Report Asia - December 29, 2023

Richful Lube Additive Co. disclosed this week that it received a warning from securities officials who concluded that so ...

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Base Oil Capacity: Plants

Factbook - December 28, 2023

The world’s 12 largest base oil refineries account for more than a quarter of the world’s base oil capacity. With th ...

Rerefinery Opens Near Arctic Circle

Rerefinery Opens Near Arctic Circle

Lube Report EMEA - December 26, 2023

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

Graphene Manufacturer Opens Australia Plant

Graphene Manufacturer Opens Australia Plant

Lube Report Asia - December 22, 2023

Graphene Manufacturing Group Ltd. commissioned a natural gas-to-graphene production plant in Richlands, Australia, that ...

Chile Raises Waste Oil Recycling Targets

Chile Raises Waste Oil Recycling Targets

Lube Report Americas - December 20, 2023

Lubricating oil producers in Chile will need to organize programs to collect and recycle waste oil under a decree approv ...

Lanxess Completes Sulfur Carrier Expansion

Lanxess Completes Sulfur Carrier Expansion

Lube Report EMEA - December 19, 2023

Lanxess completed an expansion at its Mannheim, Germany, factory of production capacity for sustainable light-color sulf ...

Lubes’n’Greases December Issue Available

Lubes’n’Greases December Issue Available

Lube Report Asia - December 15, 2023

Will PTFE be banned in the coming years, and how might increasing regulation affect lubricant formulations? What did Nor ...

Lubes’n’Greases December Issue Available

Lubes’n’Greases December Issue Available

Lube Report Americas - December 13, 2023

Will PTFE be banned in the coming years, and how might increasing regulation affect lubricant formulations? What did Nor ...

Lubes’n’Greases December Issue Available

Lubes’n’Greases December Issue Available

Lube Report EMEA - December 11, 2023

Will PTFE be banned in the coming years, and how might increasing regulation affect lubricant formulations? What did Nor ...

UMW Moves to Bigger Plant

UMW Moves to Bigger Plant

Lube Report Asia - December 8, 2023

Independent toll blender UMW Lubetech Sdn. has increased its production capacity by more than two-thirds to 60 million l ...

Sintec Expands Grease Plant

Sintec Expands Grease Plant

Lube Report EMEA - December 5, 2023

Russian lubricant producer Sintec Group recently doubled the size of its grease plant, increasing production capacity to ...

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Arteco Builds Coolants Factory in China

Lube Report Asia - December 1, 2023

Citing opportunity in the booming electric vehicle market, Belgium-based Arteco announced recently that it is building a ...