New Construction

Veolia Environnement and Total inaugurated their 55 million (U.S. $72.5 million) Osilub joint venture rerefinery in Normandy, France on Friday, which ...

Q8 Oils is in the midst of building a new lubricant blending plant at the site of an existing plant in Antwerp, Belgium, officials said recently. The ...

Hydrodec Eyes Group III

April 3, 2013

Transformer oil rerefiner Hydrodec plans to develop a pilot plant later this year focused on rerefining used paraffinic base stocks and potentially pr ...

Gulf Oil will begin producing greases and lubricants at its Ras Al-Khaimah plant in the United Arab Emirates tomorrow. The operation is slated to prod ...

Gazprom plans to buy or build another lube plant in Scandinavia or the Baltic region, and to boost its lubricants business over the next 10 years, dri ...

Chemturas plans to bring on line high viscosity PAO capacity in the Netherlands and synthetic grease capacity in China are on target for the second ha ...

Los Angeles-based industrial lubricant maker Chem Arrow is expanding its presence in Mexico, where the manufacturing sector is experiencing a resurgen ...

Shell plans to open a new lubricants technical center in Shanghai, China, in 2014, driven by the companys growing lubricants business in the country. ...

German lubricants maker Rowe Minerallwerk is building a new lubricant plant in Germany and looking to build another in Russia, the company told Lube R ...

JX Keeps an Eye on China

March 13, 2013

JX Nippon remains committed to its investment in China, despite the protracted political rift between the governments in Beijing and Tokyo over the di ...

Arizona Chemical broke ground on a $10 million, 27,000 square foot science and technology center in Georgia that will be the new home for its U.S. res ...

Engineered Custom Lubricants, which makes specialty lubricating greases for OEM applications, has moved into two buildings in Illinois and plans to ex ...

Exol Lubricants announced March 1 it is investing more than 2 million (U.S. $2.6 million) to redevelop its head office and manufacturing site in the U ...

Pascagoula on Target for 4Q

February 27, 2013

Chevrons $1.4 billion, 25,000 barrels per day API Group II base oil plant project in Pascagoula, Miss., is on budget, and on track for startup in the ...

Shell Ponders More LAO

February 27, 2013

Shell Chemical LP may expand its Geismar, La., petrochemical facility by adding an additional linear alpha olefin unit to meet growing global demand f ...

Rerefiner Universal Lubricants opened a 52,000 square foot lubricant warehouse and distribution center in leased space in Dallas, where it will serve ...

ExxonMobil plans to expand API Group II and II+ EHC production capacity at its Baytown, Texas, base oil plant byearly 2015. The company said that, su ...

Russian oil major Lukoil is building a 100,000 metric tons per year lubricants blending plant in Kazakhstan. According to an official Kazakh governme ...

Filter Maker Plans Expansion

February 6, 2013

Baldwin Filters plans to break ground this spring on a new 400,000 square foot distribution center at its headquarters location in Nebraska. The comp ...

Chem-Trend and Kluber Lubrication India, business units of Freudenberg Group, are building a regional technical center in Mysore, India, for their spe ...