Plants & Equipment

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VMPAvto Opens Small Blending Plant

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

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

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

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 ...

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Rerefinery Opens Near Arctic Circle

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

December 22, 2023

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

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Chile Raises Waste Oil Recycling Targets

December 20, 2023

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

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Lanxess Completes Sulfur Carrier Expansion

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

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

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

December 11, 2023

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

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UMW Moves to Bigger Plant

December 8, 2023

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

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Sintec Expands Grease Plant

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

December 1, 2023

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

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BASF-YPC Makes Ethanolamines in China

November 24, 2023

Sinopec and BASF recently inaugurated the downstream expansion of their petrochemicals joint venture in Nanjing, China ā ...

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Petrol Ofisi Expands Blending Plant

November 21, 2023

Energy company Petrol Ofisi announced recently that it is expanding its lubricant blending plant in Kocaeli, Turkey, inc ...

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Ingevity to Close Crude Tall Oil Fatty Acid Plant

November 8, 2023

Ingevity announced last week that it will close by mid-2024 its Deridder, Louisiana, processing plant, which produces cr ...

Eneos Shutters Wakayama Refinery

Eneos Shutters Wakayama Refinery

October 26, 2023

Eneos Corp. this month permanently closed its crude oil refinery in Arida city, Wakayama prefecture, Japan, including it ...