Nynas AB has entered a partnership with waste management firm Stena Recycling to collect, process and reuse used electrical transformer fluid. Under t ...

Russia – the largest country in the world, spanning two continents and 11 time zones – consumes a range of motor oil viscosity grades, although 5W ...

Base oil markets remain very quiet, but activity could pick up this week as many players come back into circulation. The exception is that anyone invo ...

Germany's finished lubricants demand, including process oils, declined 11% in October, as a year-long trend of falling consumption continued, with the ...

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 ...

United Kingdom-based Millers Oil Ltd., manufacturer and independent blender of oils and lubricants, reported a 21% decline in net profit despite a 9% ...

As markets close for the festive season, and more and more players are missing from desks and offices, the major talking point in the base oil industr ...

The European Council and European Parliament reached a provisional agreement Monday to not make major changes to passenger car engine emissions limits ...

Last week saw a stand-off in European, Middle Eastern and African base oil markets, with buyers stating firmly that they did not have any requirements ...

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

Two Italian used oil recycling operators filed an antimonopoly petition against Conou, Italy’s National Consortium for Waste Oils Management, allegi ...

If possible, base oil trade across Europe, the Middle East and Africa is slowing even more. Demand is disappearing from all sectors of the industry, w ...

Shell and Mobil remain two of the three most popular motor oil brands in Russia, despite Shell and ExxonMobil exiting the country following its 2022 i ...

Base oil prices are weakening throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa as trading activity slows ahead of the year end. December has been forecas ...

Lithium greases are under pressure from a run-up in lithium prices and from calls for the European Union to classify the mineral as hazardous, an indu ...

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

A Germany-based leading testing service provider validated a methodology co-developed by the Union of the European Lubricant Industry and the Technica ...

United Kingdom-based blender Exol Lubricants Ltd. reported a 12% decline in net profit on a 25% rise in sales for full-year 2022, as price hikes led t ...

Europe’s finished lubricant demand is expected to stagnate during the next few years, affected by the continent’s continued energy crisis and high ...