Plants & Facilities

Sinopec’s finished lubricant arm has completed the main parts of the first phase of an expansion and upgrade of its factory in Tianjin, China – a ...

Richful Lube Additive Co. last month announced delays for two major projects – the upgrading of a lubricant additives plant and construction of a ne ...

Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. and the owner of Refineria Isla have reached an agreement resolving a debt dispute and re-establishing commercial relation ...

India’s total base oil production capacity is set to jump in the next few years due to expansions by state-owned oil companies, a Hindustan Petroleu ...

Russian lubricant maker VMPAvto, recently opened a small factory in Saint Petersburg’s heavily industrialized Kirovsky district, which has port acce ...

Neste announced it will convert its Porvoo, Finland, crude oil refinery to process renewable feedstocks, but that change will not affect the site’s ...

Richful Lube Additive Co. disclosed this week that it received a warning from securities officials who concluded that some funds raised from a 2020 pu ...

Graphene Manufacturing Group Ltd. commissioned a natural gas-to-graphene production plant in Richlands, Australia, that is intended to make different ...

Lanxess completed an expansion at its Mannheim, Germany, factory of production capacity for sustainable light-color sulfur carriers – used as extrem ...

UMW Moves to Bigger Plant

December 8, 2023

Independent toll blender UMW Lubetech Sdn. has increased its production capacity by more than two-thirds to 60 million liters (54,000 metric tons) per ...

Sintec Expands Grease Plant

December 5, 2023

Russian lubricant producer Sintec Group recently doubled the size of its grease plant, increasing production capacity to 12,000 metric tons per year i ...

Citing opportunity in the booming electric vehicle market, Belgium-based Arteco announced recently that it is building a factory to produce coolants a ...

Sinopec and BASF recently inaugurated the downstream expansion of their petrochemicals joint venture in Nanjing, China – a project that added produc ...

Energy company Petrol Ofisi announced recently that it is expanding its lubricant blending plant in Kocaeli, Turkey, increasing production capacity fr ...

Ingevity announced last week that it will close by mid-2024 its Deridder, Louisiana, processing plant, which produces crude tall oil fatty acid produc ...

Eneos Corp. this month permanently closed its crude oil refinery in Arida city, Wakayama prefecture, Japan, including its largest remaining base oil p ...

Lubricant maker Azmol-British Petrochemicals has transferred its production activities to Georgia and Uzbekistan after losing control of its factory i ...

Lukoil’s lubricant arm intends to build two production facilities at its refining complex in Volgograd, Russia – one to make lubricant additives a ...

Russian automotive chemicals producer Suprotec announced plans for a grease and metalworking fluids manufacturing venture in the St. Petersburg area, ...

McDonch Petrochemical Co. announced on Sept. 1 it will soon open the first phase of a blending plant in Tianjin, China, with capacity to make 50,000 o ...