European grease production declined slightly in 2022, dipping less than a third of one percent compared to the prior year, according to the National L ...

As part of an effort to combat illicit trade and tax dodging, Poland’s government plans to begin requiring licenses for both the importing and domes ...

German lubricant demand fell 24% in March, a second consecutive month of declines following two months of healthy gains. Several categories of industr ...

The knock-on effects of inflation and rising interest rates are constraining manufacturing and services industries to the extent of denting demand for ...

Finished lubricant demand in France dropped in April to its lowest point since last August, continuing a 10-month streak of year-on-year decreases bro ...

One United Kingdom-based organization is doing its part to ensure that lubricant standards are met or exceeded.

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

Parts of the European, Middle Eastern and African region are showing vibrant activity, whilst others for one reason or another are dull and flat. In E ...

Italy recycled 98% of used lubricating oils collected there last year – the sixth consecutive year that it met or topped that level – according to ...

Kazakhstan’s Hill Group expects to break ground in Lithuania soon on an API Group II base oil rerefinery. The project includes a large blending comp ...

The European Union’s ban on imports of Russian petroleum products reduced imports of Russian base oils by 55,000 metric tons during the first half o ...

Russia’s lubricant market stagnated in 2022, hampered by lower industrial output in sectors such as automobiles, machine building and metallurgy tha ...

Base oil markets throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa seem to have hit a flat spot where little new business or trades are taking place. Busi ...

France’s finished lubricant consumption fell 13% to 45,297 metric tons in March, pushing demand for the first quarter to a 5% decline, according to ...

Base oil markets throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa remain subdued, with much less trading than normal for this time of year and an absence ...

Waste oil collector Slicker Recycling Ltd. acquired competitor Oil Monster for an undisclosed sum in mid-May. The purchase further strengthens Slicker ...

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

Base oil production by Lukoil fell 7% last year, while its finished lube output increased 2%, partly driven by its acquisition of Shell’s former bus ...

Base oil markets around Europe, the Middle East and Africa are suffering from the same contagion as other industries – a number of the key economies ...

Spain in 2022 once again rerefined more than three-quarters of its collected used oil back into base stocks, according to the non-profit organization ...