The clock may be ticking for Europe’s oldest API Group III base oil plant. Neste Corp. announced Monday that it wants to convert its Porvoo, Finland ...

France’s lubricant consumption fell 11% to 44,253 tons in July, compared to the same month last year, according to data released last week by the Pa ...

Registrations of new passenger cars in Norway are now almost all electric, giving automotive workshop lubricant suppliers cause for concern. So far in ...

The volume of lubricant additives imported into Russia fell more than 70% in March, following the country’s invasion of Ukraine, but rebounded to a ...

Nynas AB announced last week that it has started to rerefine used electrical transformer oils at its base oil plant in Nynashamn, Sweden, using the re ...

The Big Four additive suppliers have reportedly exited the Russian market. How might this exodus affect finished lubricants in the region?

BP earlier this month announced plans to invest up to £50 million to build an electric vehicle battery testing center and analytical laboratory in th ...

Global lubricant demand jumped 8.3% last year, recovering most of what the market lost during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, an official fro ...

Russia produced around 600,000 metric tons of finished lubricants in 2021, a slight increase from the previous year, according to recently released go ...

An Italian association that promotes recycling of waste lubricants has sharply cut a finished lubricant tax designed to help finance those efforts, th ...

Liqui-Moly reported an 8 percent increase in sales for the first half of this year. The German company said that exporting to many countries helped it ...

BP’s Castrol segment reported a decrease in underlying replacement cost before interest and taxes for the second quarter ending June 30, yet remaine ...

Lubricant consumption in France decreased 3% to 46,452 metric tons in June, compared to the same month last year, according to data released Aug. 4 by ...

The former Lotos Oil sold 92,927 metric tons of finished lubricants last year, up from the 77,243 tons sold in 2020, by increasing sales in the automo ...

Azerbaijani lubricant marketers are grabbing the opportunity to fill the export void left by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has triggered boyco ...

Independent lubricants blender Fuchs Petrolub SE reported a decrease in profits and an increase in sales for the second quarter, compared to results i ...

The EU has imposed rounds of strict sanctions on Russian oil products. How will the bans affect base oil supply in the bloc?

France’s lubricant consumption rose 9% to 45,368 tons in May, compared to the same month last year, according to data released by the Paris-based Pr ...

Italy recycled 98% of used lubricating oils collected in the country in 2021 – the fifth straight year that it met or topped that level – accordin ...

Nuspec Oil, a United Kingdom-based company developing biobased base oils and advancing commercialization of novel rapeseed oils, was among five startu ...