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Latvia Tightens Waste Oil Collection Regs

October 23, 2023

Latvia’s national agency for waste management recently unveiled a campaign to improve handling of waste oil and to str ...

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Azmol-BP Shifts to Georgia, Uzbekistan

October 17, 2023

Lubricant maker Azmol-British Petrochemicals has transferred its production activities to Georgia and Uzbekistan after l ...

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Lukoil Plans Additives, Lubricants Plants

October 3, 2023

Lukoil’s lubricant arm intends to build two production facilities at its refining complex in Volgograd, Russia – one ...

Podcast 13: The Sound of the Blending Revolution

Podcast 13: The Sound of the Blending Revolution

October 2, 2023

The cost of powering a blending plant is immense. The power of sound could be the solution.

Suprotec Plans Grease, Metalworking Fluid Plant

Suprotec Plans Grease, Metalworking Fluid Plant

September 26, 2023

Russian automotive chemicals producer Suprotec announced plans for a grease and metalworking fluids manufacturing ventur ...

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McDonch Opening Lube Plant in China

September 22, 2023

McDonch Petrochemical Co. announced on Sept. 1 it will soon open the first phase of a blending plant in Tianjin, China, ...

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ExxonMobil Launches LAO Production

September 20, 2023

ExxonMobil on Tuesday announced the startup of two new chemical production units at its Baytown, Texas manufacturing fac ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...