BASF is gradually adding alkoxylation capacity – in part to produce chemicals with uses in lubricants – at its plants in Belgium and Germany start ...

Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. and Nepal’s Golchha Group signed a joint venture agreement to manufacture lubricants in the Himilayan country to cater to the ...

Kazakhstan’s Hill Group expects to break ground in Lithuania soon on an API Group II base oil rerefinery. The project includes a large blending comp ...

India rerefiner IFP Petro Products announced last week that it has entered a partnership with Germany-based Avista Oil AG to expand its rerefining and ...

Aiming to serve what it describes as a vibrant Algerian transportation market, petroleum products distributor Petro Baraka recently opened a lubricant ...

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Lubrication formulation and tribology face a number of pressing challenges, and this is helping attract young people to the work, according to the pre ...

Russia’s only polyalphaolefins complex now can also produce polyalkylene glycols and complex esters, after completing an expansion that included a r ...

In a nod to India’s growing lubricant market, Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. said this week that it will construct a new finished lubricant blending pl ...

Spain in 2022 once again rerefined more than three-quarters of its collected used oil back into base stocks, according to the non-profit organization ...

Superior, Wisconsin-based Amsoil Inc. acquired fellow Wisconsin lube blender Benz Oil, the companies announced on Monday. The move expands Amsoil’s ...

Specialty lubricant manufacturer Moresco Corp has started construction of a plant in Haining city, Zhejiang province, in Eastern China, and the plant ...

An industry association in Turkmenistan recently opened a finished lubricant factory, according to a news release by the Turkmen state news agency THP ...

Petronobel Mineral Oils San and Tic A.S. announced plans last week to build a lubricant blending plant in an industrial zone near Istanbul. Another co ...

The Curacao government is again going back to step one in its effort to find a replacement operator for the Isla Refinery after talks broke down yet a ...

Colombian oil and gas company Terpel is making investments to expand production capacity at its blending plant in Peru, a company executive confirmed ...

A public-private partnership for waste oil collection and construction of a base oil rerefinery was announced recently by the local government of the ...

As part of a strategy to grab a bigger share of Indonesia’s lubricant market, ExxonMobil plans to double the size of its local manufacturing plant, ...

Citing the opportunity of a growing market, ExxonMobil announced Friday that it will invest nearly Rs 900 crore to build a lubricant manufacturing pla ...

Petrobras has licensed technologies from Chevron Lummus Global for an API Group II base oil plant being built as part of Brazil’s Gaslub project, a ...