Plants & Facilities

Valvoline Cummins Ltd. has opened a plant in India with capacity to manufacture and package 120 million liters of lubricants per year, with possible e ...

Delfin Group USA terminated company President John Gordon in late April. The lube blender had fired its previous president, Markos Baghdasarian, in Se ...

Additives maker Infineum signed a lease agreement for a three-story building for its proposed new business and technology center in China, continuing ...

Lonza will shut down its biocide plant in Swords, Ireland, in June as part of a corporate cost-cutting effort, the company announced Thursday in its f ...

Universal Environmental Services (Avista Oil USA) said it will commission its rerefinery in Peachtree City, Ga., tomorrow, with base oil shipments beg ...

Gulf Oil Argentinas 6,000 metric tons per year lubricants blending plant in Le Reja, Argentina, last week reached full production capacity for the fir ...

Gazprom Neft Lubricants added a new product line designed for Russia’s Far East region and Central Asia, and expanded its presence in Mongolia a ...

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

Argentinas state-owned YPF halted production at its API Group I plant in La Plata last week after a heavy rainstorm flooded the refinerys interior and ...

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 ...