Expansions & Upgrades

German lubricants producer Oest Group has installed tanks with capacity to store 480,000 liters of raw materials at its blending plant in Freudenstadt ...

Mitsui Chemicals Inc. announced last week that it has finished building a plant that will make synthetic hydrocarbon fluids that it markets under the ...

Gazprom Neft is continuing with a project to add API Group II and III capacity to it refinery in Omsk, Russia, but the site has already begun making l ...

A lubricant additive factory that ExxonMobil operates on behalf of Infineum is wrapping up an expansion of a facility that makes detergent components.

OQ Chemicals – formerly Oxea – recently completed an expansion at its site in Oberhausen, Germany, increasing its isononanoic acid global producti ...

Shell intends to increase the production capacity of its 180,000 tons per year blending plant in Torzhok by 50 percent by 2023, a company official sai ...

ExxonMobil has decided to build its first lubricant blending plant in India, a Rs 760 crore facility in Maharashtra, according to the chief minister o ...

Caitlin Jacobs gives an overview of global base oil capacity in 2020 and previews how the picture may change after the pandemic has run its course thr ...

A joint venture between Uzbekneftegaz and Russian energy giant Gazprom says it is moving forward with a previously announced revamp of a refinery in F ...

Pertamina disclosed last week that Saudi Aramco has withdrawn from discussions about a plan to jointly expand the Indonesian energy company’s refine ...

Infineum has signed a letter of intent to add a second phase to its lubricant additive plant in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu province, China, expanding a fac ...

ExxonMobil is completing an expansion of its Port Allen lubricant blending plant in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Aerospace Lubricants is nearing completion on an expansion to add 10 million pounds of grease production capacity at its plant in Columbus, Ohio, to h ...

Afton Chemical completed an expansion of its Japan Technology Center in Tsukuba to give it increased lubricant additive testing capabilities for the A ...

Axel Christiernsson AB announced on Monday a multi-million dollar expansion and improvement plan across its three grease plants in the United States, ...

Nouryon announced Aug. 27 that it will double capacity at its surfactants plant in Stenungsund, Sweden, through a 12-million expansion and upgrade sch ...

MFG Chemical recently announced manufacturing upgrades at its facilities in Dalton, Georgia, that make surfactants, esters and derivative amines, and ...

German lubricant and grease maker Zeller & Gmelin is expanding its grease production and tank storage capacity to meet growing demand. The expansion w ...

Japan's Adeka Corp. will complete an expansion of its lubricant additive plant this month, and seeks to expand sale of its engine oil additives to the ...

BASF increased its global production capacity for isononanoic acid and 2-ethylhexanoic acid - considered higher carboxylic acids - the company announc ...