Afton Chemical Corp. announced today that it completed a $70 million expansion at its lubricant additive factory in Sauget, Illinois – a project tha ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Lanxess said this week that it will expand its output of aminic antioxidants for lubricants at a chemical factory in Taiwan. The German chemical compa ...

Axel Christiernsson Group announced on July 15 that it is proceeding with an additional expansion and improvement plan across its three grease plants ...

United Kingdom-based Exol Lubricants announced it has begun redevelopment of its Rotherham site to increase lubricant blending capabilities, with comp ...

Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. plans to build an API Group III base oil plant at its refinery in Panipat – part of a broader expansion of the northern India ...

Chemical company BRB International announced last week the groundbreaking for a lubricant additive factory that it will operate Echt, Netherlands – ...

DuPont said last week that it is investing $40 million to construct specialty lubricant manufacturing units at existing factories in South Carolina an ...

German lubricant Zeller+Gmelin said this week that it is expanding in China, relocating into a larger factory after agreeing to buy out its joint vent ...

The COVID-19 pandemic was the biggest news in any industry in 2020, but the region’s lubricant markets had plenty of other significant happenings, f ...

Portuguese energy company Galp said yesterday that it will close the smaller of its two refineries – a facility in Matosinhos, Portugal, that includ ...