BASF is gradually adding alkoxylation capacity – in part to produce chemicals with uses in lubricants – at its plants in Belgium and Germany start ...

What did demand for additives look like last year, and how might that outlook shift in the coming years?

Russia’s only polyalphaolefins complex now can also produce polyalkylene glycols and complex esters, after completing an expansion that included a r ...

In a nod to India’s growing lubricant market, Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. said this week that it will construct a new finished lubricant blending pl ...

Superior, Wisconsin-based Amsoil Inc. acquired fellow Wisconsin lube blender Benz Oil, the companies announced on Monday. The move expands Amsoil’s ...

Specialty lubricant manufacturer Moresco Corp has started construction of a plant in Haining city, Zhejiang province, in Eastern China, and the plant ...

An industry association in Turkmenistan recently opened a finished lubricant factory, according to a news release by the Turkmen state news agency THP ...

Petronobel Mineral Oils San and Tic A.S. announced plans last week to build a lubricant blending plant in an industrial zone near Istanbul. Another co ...

The Curacao government is again going back to step one in its effort to find a replacement operator for the Isla Refinery after talks broke down yet a ...

Colombian oil and gas company Terpel is making investments to expand production capacity at its blending plant in Peru, a company executive confirmed ...

A public-private partnership for waste oil collection and construction of a base oil rerefinery was announced recently by the local government of the ...

As part of a strategy to grab a bigger share of Indonesia’s lubricant market, ExxonMobil plans to double the size of its local manufacturing plant, ...

Citing the opportunity of a growing market, ExxonMobil announced Friday that it will invest nearly Rs 900 crore to build a lubricant manufacturing pla ...

Petrobras has licensed technologies from Chevron Lummus Global for an API Group II base oil plant being built as part of Brazil’s Gaslub project, a ...

Shell has decided not to build an API Group II base oil plant at its Singapore fuels and chemicals complex, according to a Reuters report Thursday. Th ...

Idemitsu Lubricants America Corp. is adding a building to the warehouse space it leases in southern Indiana near its United States blending plant, par ...

Germany’s GEA announced today that it will supply equipment toward expansion of Albemarle’s lithium hydroxide processing plant in Western Australi ...

It’s been a year since Russia invaded Ukraine. How has the fallout affected the lubricants market in the region and abroad?

Luberef said Sunday that a previously announced expansion of its base oil plant in Yanbu’ al Bahr, Saudi Arabia, will increase capacity by 230,000 m ...

An upgrade of a base oil plant in Fergana, Uzbekistan, is on track for completion by the beginning of 2024, with production scheduled to start later i ...