Indian lubricants blender Maximus International Ltd. plans to triple its production capacity in East Africa, the company announced, setting a high gro ...

Base oil plants are complex facilities whose performance can be measured in numerous ways. One stands far above others, however, in consistently predi ...

Perstorp Group announced on July 7 that it has increased production capacity of 2-ethylhexanoic acid at its plant in Stenungsund, Sweden, to meet glob ...

Russian independent lubricant maker Cupper plans to build a lubricant blending plant in Dzershinsk, in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod oblast. The project ...

ExxonMobil is evaluating the possibility of building capacity to make API Group III base oils, according to the head of its base oil business. For now ...

Ineos Oligomers announced this week the startup of its new 120,000-metric-tons-per-year low viscosity polyalphaolefins unit at its facility in Chocola ...

An ExxonMobil official predicted Monday that the pace of openings of new base oil capacity will slow in coming years compared to rapid-fire additions ...

Refineria di Kursou, the Curacao government agency that owns the Isla Refinery, entered exclusive negotiations with a hefty consortium of companies to ...

German-based grease and lubrication systems manufacturer H-T-L Perma USA is expanding its production capacity at a new headquarters in Charlotte, Nort ...

Perstorp Group said June 9 that its largest plant in Sweden will convert all polyols derived from petroleum – pentaerythritol, neopentyl glycol and ...

Chevron Phillips Chemical said today it will build a new polyalphaolefins unit in Beringen, Belgium, in response to growing global demand for the flui ...

The war in Ukraine has caused and continues to cause horrendous damage. Among the casualties is a lubricants manufacturer in the eastern city of Khark ...

One person died and nine were injured Thursday night in an explosion at S-Oil’s refinery in Onsan, South Korea. The incident, which occurred as work ...

Shell is negotiating with an unidentified party to sell its lubricant blending plant in Torzhok, Russia, along with its network of fuel stations in th ...

Companies in China’s lubricant industry are striving to continue delivering products to clients during stringent government lockdowns – imposed in ...

Sinopec’s Yanshan Petrochemical Co. has begun producing API Group III base oils, joining the growing list of Chinese refiners that claim to make Gro ...

An Illinois judge on Monday approved an order holding Lubrizol’s Chemtool Inc. responsible for cleaning up the site of its former grease and additiv ...

German oleochemical supplier Peter Greven GmbH announced last week that it has expanded ester production capacity at its factory in Bad Muenstereifel, ...

An expansion of the Nanjing, China, petrochemical joint venture between BASF and Sinopec will bring the site’s capacity for ethanolamine production ...

TotalEnergies has opened a lubricant blending plant on Algeria’s Mediterranean coast to cater to the growing market in that country. The plant, loca ...