Evonik said March 30 that it has invested at least €10 million to increase capacity for isobutene derivatives by more than 50 percent at its site in ...

Sara Lefcourt explains how the crisis in Ukraine may affect your business and offers tips for managing the situation.

Specialty chemical supplier Perstorp AB will begin this month to produce isononanoic acids at its factory in Stenungsund, Sweden. The Malmo, Sweden-ba ...

Following a handful of failures, Refineria di Kursou is once again starting another search of a new operator for the Isla Refinery. But RdK, the gover ...

The South African base oil market will become completely import-dependent from March when Sapref – the joint venture between BP and Shell – halts ...

British energy giant Shell is considering building an API Group II base oil unit at its refinery on Singapore’s Pulau Bukom island, apparently at le ...

The pandemic wreaked havoc on the base oil market, but rerefiners may have emerged stronger than ever.

The COVID-19 pandemic led to sharp changes in base oil pricing and margins. Will the market settle into a new post-pandemic norm, and what might that ...

China overtook the United States in 2021 as the country with the most base oil refining capacity. What contributed to its rise?

Eneos Corp., said this week that it will close its refinery in Wakayama, Japan – which includes a base oil plant – by 2023. Combined with previous ...

A start-up research and development company has begun building a demonstration plant in East China that is designed to make metallocene polyalphaolefi ...

After years of reduced production, Mexico’s government wants state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos to raise its output of base oil, part of a strategy to ...

Residents in proximity to Lubrizol’s lubricant additive plant in Rouen, France, experienced elevated incidence of mood disorders such as anxiety and ...

A leading fuel retailer in southern Vietnam is dipping its toe into the lubricants business as it searches for ways to continue growing. NSH Petro pla ...

Employees at ExxonMobil’s Beaumont, Texas, refining complex and lubricant manufacturing plant completed an election last week on a request to decert ...

Poland’s Lotos Group recently awarded an engineering, procurement and construction contract for an upgrade and expansion of its base oil plant in Gd ...

The board of directors of Japan’s KH Neochem Co. decided on Dec. 27 to invest ¥9.5 billion at its manufacturing plant in Ichihara City, Chiba Prefe ...

ExxonMobil’s Baytown, Texas, refinery – site of the second-largest base oil plant in the United States – is operating at reduced rates following ...

The rise of electric vehicles has a few lubricant companies looking to branch into aspects of EVs that have nothing to do with lubes. Now a Chinese su ...

France-based Arkema announced on Monday a 50% increase in global capacity for its Oleris castor oil derivatives, which are used in synthetic lubricant ...