Plants & Equipment

Fuchs Opens Vietnam Blending Plant

Fuchs Opens Vietnam Blending Plant

September 15, 2023

Fuchs Group opened a 20,000 metric tons per year lubricants blending plant in Vietnam to serve growing demand in the reg ...

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Petronas and Pertamina Mull Base Oil Venture

September 15, 2023

Petronas announced Wednesday that it has agreed with Pertamina to explore the possibility of the companies building a ba ...

Timken Buys Filtration Products Maker Des-Case

Timken Buys Filtration Products Maker Des-Case

September 13, 2023

The Timken Co. acquired Des-Case Corp., a Nashville, Tennessee-based manufacturer of specialty filtration products for i ...

Virtual Lab Aims to Optimize Formulations

Virtual Lab Aims to Optimize Formulations

September 6, 2023

Researchers at Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials say they have developed a virtual lab to pred ...

Omsk to Stream Group II, III in September

Omsk to Stream Group II, III in September

September 6, 2023

Gazprom Neft’s new 220,000 metric tons per year Group II and III base oil production in Omsk is scheduled to start str ...

Rerefinery and Lube Factory Planned in Turkey

Rerefinery and Lube Factory Planned in Turkey

August 29, 2023

A waste oil rerefinery and lubricant manufacturing complex will be constructed in Mersin province in southeastern Turkey ...

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Jax Opens New Headquarters in Wisconsin

August 23, 2023

Jax Lubricants has completed construction of a new headquarters and a factory expansion that increases its lubricants an ...

Calls in Russia for More Waste Oil Recycling

Calls in Russia for More Waste Oil Recycling

August 22, 2023

Approximately 500,000 metric tons of waste lubricants are collected in Russia each year, but the vast majority is reused ...

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Conditions Eased for Potential Isla Operator

August 16, 2023

The Curacao government has received interest from at least 15 companies to operate the Isla Refinery, the director of th ...

Chaoshui Opens Metalworking Fluid Production

Chaoshui Opens Metalworking Fluid Production

August 11, 2023

Aiming to offer replacements for foreign products, Chaoshui Technology Co. last week formally opened a metalworking flui ...

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PIB Expansion Planned at Ludwigshafen

August 8, 2023

BASF will expand its capacity to produce medium-molecular weight polyisobutenes at its Verbund petrochemical refinery in ...

Report Sees Dual Sustainability Roles for Lubes

Report Sees Dual Sustainability Roles for Lubes

August 2, 2023

Like businesses in many industries, lubricant companies are busy looking for ways to reduce amounts of greenhouse gases ...

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Chinese Blender Commissions Second Plant

July 28, 2023

Chinese lubricant blender Shengbaolu Petrochemical Co., known as Sarlboro, recently completed construction of and commis ...

Chevron Expands Group III Output in Richmond

Chevron Expands Group III Output in Richmond

July 26, 2023

Chevron said Sunday that it began making 4 centiStoke API Group III base stocks this month at its refinery in Richmond, ...

Rerefinery Planned in Russia’s Tula Oblast

Rerefinery Planned in Russia’s Tula Oblast

July 18, 2023

A public-private partnership to build a rerefinery capable of producing base oils was announced recently during an event ...

Belarus Additives Joint Venture Expands

Belarus Additives Joint Venture Expands

July 18, 2023

Additech, a lubricant additive joint venture between the Russian and Belarus oil majors Lukoil and Naftan, expanded its ...

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New Ghana Refinery Will Make Base Oils

July 18, 2023

Sentuo Group is scheduled to begin commissioning its new refinery in Tema, Ghana, next month, bringing sub-Saharan Afric ...

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Satellite Plans Another PAO Plant in China

July 7, 2023

The march of China companies stepping into the polyalphaolefin business continues, as acrylic acid producer Satellite Ch ...