Plants & Facilities

Shell opened a new blending plant Tianjin, China, Thursday, the latest in a series of investments by the company in the nations large and growing lubr ...

Malaysia's Petronas Lubricants Marketing Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Petronas Dagangan, plans to expand in East Malaysia as part of a strategy to become ...

Indonesias PT Pertamina Lubricants will expand and upgrade its lubricant blending plant in Jakarta by the end of this year, the company said during th ...

The new Mysore, India, production site of Chem-Trend and Kluber Lubrication India - business units of Freudenberg Group - is scheduled to open in Augu ...

Sasol commissioned the first phase of its Fischer-Tropsch wax expansion project at its Sasolburg Operations in South Africa. It marks another step tow ...

LSC Drawn to Jamaica

June 10, 2015

Lubricating Specialties Co. has opened a lubricants blending facility in Jamaica to support customers in the Caribbean and Latin America. One customer ...

Emirates National Oil Co. has increased its lubricants and grease blending capacity to 300,000 metric tons per year with the opening of a second facil ...

Calumet Specialty Products Partners L.P. opened Calumet Specialty Oils de Mexico, which will provide the companys global customers with access to bulk ...

Gaoke Prepares for IPO

June 9, 2015

Chinese lubricant blender Jiangsu Gaoke Petrochemical is preparing for an initial public stock offering on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.

Malaysias Petronas Lubricants International began the second phase of expansion on its lubricant blending plant in the Weifang Economic Development Zo ...

Hydrodec this week will begin operating two of the six newly built production trains at its Canton, Ohio, transformer oil rerefinery, which had been s ...

Indonesias PT Federal Karyatama started construction last week on a 100 million liters per year blending plant in western Java that will involve an in ...

Fuchs Petrolub SE announced Monday that it has acquired Deutsche Pentosin-Werke GmbH, a privately owned blender with extensive ties to the auto indust ...

SK Files For IPO

May 19, 2015

SK Lubricants filed documents last week seeking eligibility to conduct an initial public stock offering.

Vertex Energy announced that it began leasing the Bango Oil base oil rerefinery in Fallon, Nev. this month. The Houston-based rerefiner said its origi ...

Swiss metalworking fluids manufacturer Blaser Swisslube AG opened a research and development center in Hong Kong last week to help it grow in the Asia ...

Southern Oil Refinings recently relocated rerefinery includes a hydrotreater, and SOR says the experience of operating it on behalf of joint venture p ...

Evonik Industries AG announced last week the completion of an expansion that nearly doubled capacity at its oil additives factory in Singapore. The Ju ...

ExxonMobil last week announced completion of its Baytown, Texas, refinery expansion, which will increase production of its API Group II and II+ base s ...

Nigerian lubricant producer Conoil will invest 5 billion naira (U.S. $2.5 million) on an additional blending plant in Lagos, with capacity of 60,000 m ...