Plants & Equipment

Fuchs Ups China Production

October 30, 2013

Fuchs Petrolub SE on Monday opened a blending plant in Yingkou, China, one of two that the company now operates in the country. The new facility repla ...

Prista Recycling of Bulgaria recently broke ground on its first base oil rerefinery in Ukraine, a $60 million investment, claiming it is the first suc ...

FCC Environmental said it is on track to break ground on its $50 million rerefinery in Baltimore in the second quarter of 2014, and to commence operat ...

Petronas Lubricants International will invest $50 million to build its first lubricants blending plant in India, with the first phase expected to be c ...

Gazprom Bunkers in Primorsk

October 16, 2013

Gazpromneft Lubricants is offering marine oil bunkering services at a key Russian port to enhance its maritime product competitiveness and sales, the ...

Boss Grows in Canada

October 9, 2013

Boss Lubricants added a new warehouse and blending facility in Edmonton, Canada, to grow its opportunities to supply and service the northern Alberta ...

EMI Revs Up Hydrotreater

October 2, 2013

Environmental Management Inc. opened a hydrotreating unit in Kansas City, Kan., where it will produce 9 million gallons of rerefined and recycled tran ...

Gits Downsizes, Outsources

September 25, 2013

Lubrication equipment maker Gits Manufacturing announced last week that it will lay off 78 employees by June 2014 and move its Iowa production to Mexi ...

Hydrodec Adds UK Collector

September 18, 2013

Transformer oil rerefiner Hydrodec Group acquired used lube oil collector OSS for 4.7 million (U.S. $6.3 million), securing feedstock for a planned pi ...

Hyundai Oilbank to Make Lubes

September 11, 2013

South Korean refiner Hyundai Oilbank plans to produce 180,000 barrels of Xteer brand engine oil by 2014 to sell at home and abroad, according to a Sep ...

Heartland Automotive Services, the largest U.S. Jiffy Lube franchisee, appointed Jim Marcum as interim CEO and formed a new Southeast division followi ...

Haver Filling Systems Grows

August 28, 2013

Haver Filling Systems is expanding its warehouse in Conyers, Ga., to increase production capacity so it can meet growing demand for its German-enginee ...

Evonik Ups Capacity in Asia

August 21, 2013

Evonik Oil Additives will expand its Singapore oil additives plant, with completion scheduled for early 2015, in response to Asia driving above-averag ...

Fuchs Keen on Australia

August 21, 2013

Fuchs completed an A $4.5 million (U.S. $4.1 million) warehouse facility in Melbourne, Australia, the first phase of an A $6 million plan to increase ...

Chevron USA pleaded no contest to six charges in a criminal complaint by California state and local authorities related to the Aug. 6, 2012, fire at i ...

QualiChem, which manufactures metalworking fluids and water treatment chemicals, announced last week it has expanded its headquarters, laboratory and ...

Calumet Specialty Products Partners recently announced plans to invest up to $40 million to double synthetic lubricants production at its esters facil ...

The U.S. federal court of Charleston, S.C., sentenced former Delfin Group USA president Markos Baghdasarian to three years in prison for exporting lub ...

Puralube is investing 40 million to build a third rerefinery at its Zeitz Chemical and Industrial Park in Troeglitz, Germany, bringing its API Group I ...

Valvoline Cummins Ltd. has opened a plant in India with capacity to manufacture and package 120 million liters of lubricants per year, with possible e ...