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

The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped the lubricants industry, but it’s not the only factor forcing industry players to change up their game plans. Suz ...

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 ...

France’s public health agency is conducting a survey to assess health and quality of life impacts of a September 2019 fire at a Lubrizol lubricant a ...

The American Chemistry Council last week extended to Dec. 31 its emergency protocol meant to give companies flexibility to cope with scarcity of autom ...

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 ...

Chevron and Novvi LLC announced the first production of fully renewable base oil from Novvi’s Deer Park facility in Houston, Texas.

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 ...

Shell intends to increase the production capacity of its 180,000 tons per year blending plant in Torzhok by 50 percent by 2023, a company official sai ...

ExxonMobil has decided to build its first lubricant blending plant in India, a Rs 760 crore facility in Maharashtra, according to the chief minister o ...

Order volumes for every lubricants market sector, from base oils and additives to finished lubes, dropped by 40% in April and May due to the economic ...

Two energy start-up companies – Houston-based Oil Group Investments and Rio de Janeiro’s EnP – have agreed to study the feasibility of developin ...

India-based Siddharth Grease & Lubes Pvt.’s subsidiary opened a lubricant and grease manufacturing plant in the United Arab Emirates to supply m ...

Chinese refiner Shandong Qinghe Chemical Technology Co. Ltd. is testing its newly completed 600,000 metric tons per year API Group III base oil plant ...

Chinese additives maker Kangtai Lubricant Additives Co. started construction in June on a 50,000 metric tons per year additive manufacturing plant in ...