ExxonMobil opened its first lubricants products technology center in Europe, where it will collaborate with original equipment manufacturers and other ...

Quaker Chemical Corp. reported that one of its employees died as the result of an explosion at General Motors Marion Metal Center in Marion, Ind., on ...

Infineum opened a research and development center in Shanghai, China, last week, as part of its growth plan for the Asia-Pacific region.

Q8Oils spent 80,000 (U.S. $136,000) to convert its Leeds, United Kingdom, location from lubricants blending to filling and storage. The Antwerp, Belgi ...

Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LP plans to expand normal alpha olefin production capacity at its Cedar Bayou plant in Baytown, Texas, by 100,000 metric ...

Italian rerefiner Viscolube agreed to develop a waste oil rerefinery in cooperation with Chinese steelmaker Baosteel. Construction of the facility, wh ...

Afton Chemical began construction last week of a lubricant additive plant on Jurong Island, Singapore, The facility is scheduled to begin operating in ...

Japanese metalworking fluids manufacturer Yushiro Chemical Industry Co. recently announced plans to expand its business in India, following the commen ...

Oxea Chemicals finished construction of a specialty esters plant in Nanjing, China. Some of the output will go to the lubricants industry for applicat ...

An oil depot which supplies nearly all of the lubricants consumed in the Philippines is set to be closed in January 2016.

Daubert Chemical completed a multi-million dollar, three-year expansion of its calcium sulfonate plant in Chicago that more than doubles its capacity. ...

Shell Egypt will increase capacity of its lubricants blending plant near Cairo by more than 100 million liters per year by 2017, an official told Lube ...

Prista Recycling expects to stream base oil at its rerefinery in Uzbekistan by October, the Bulgarian company told Lube Report Asia.

Japans Sanyo Chemical Industries Ltd. will build a plant in Jiangsu Province, China, with capacity to produce 5,000 tons per year of viscosity index i ...

JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp. began commercial operations last month at its new lubricant factory in Haiphong, Vietnam. The Japanese energy giant is ba ...

This month will see the startup of a new, privately owned polyalphaolefin plant in China. By early July, say officials with Naco Lubrication Co. Ltd., ...

BASF will construct a new polyalkylene glycol-based lubricants manufacturing facility in Ludwigshafen, Germany and start operations by the beginning o ...

BASF and Sinopec will build a neopentylglycol plant at their joint venture petrochemicals complex in Nanjing, China. NPG is used as a building block i ...

Arguments about who is responsible for lube-plant line wash finding its way into applications where it causes harm often echo the oversimplified logic ...

A one-time Quaker State plant in Newell, W.Va., now part of Shell, depends on both robots and its savvy human workforce to get the work done.