Gazprom Neft’s lubricant sales stood flat last year because of Russia’s stagnated industrial output and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on both d ...

Lubricant demand in Spain this year through May was up 33% from the same period in 2020 – during which pandemic restrictions and lockdowns had the m ...

Russian oil major Lukoil increased production at its standalone lubricant blending plants by 17% to 161,000 metric tons in 2020, Lukoil said in its an ...

France’s Ministry of Ecology last week implemented a system giving increased regulatory scrutiny to industrial sites that have had accidents or a hi ...

Used oil collection in Italy fell 11% in 2020, reflecting the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on lubricant consumption, according to the National Con ...

Belarus’ base oils effectively stopped flowing to the West last week after the European Union imposed sanctions against the country. The EU was reta ...

Lubricant consumption in France jumped 61% in April, compared to the same month in 2020, likely reflecting a rebound from the first full month of COVI ...

Lubricating grease production in Europe fell 7% in 2020, according to the latest survey by the United States-based National Lubricating Grease Institu ...

A fire occurred June 17 at Infineum’s lubricant additives manufacturing plant in Cologne, Germany. No one was injured, but the company said today th ...

Independent lubricant blender Fuchs Petrolub, based in Mannheim, Germany, acquired Swedish company Gleitmo Technik AB’s lubricants business, the com ...

The vast majority of Russian-made heavy machinery, smelters in steel and cast-iron complexes, machines in power plants, bearings installed in producti ...

The German subsidiaries of Seat and Skoda have added engine oil specifications to owners manuals of their vehicles, as part of a cease and desist sett ...

United Kingdom-based Exol Lubricants announced it has begun redevelopment of its Rotherham site to increase lubricant blending capabilities, with comp ...

Russia exported about 1 million metric tons of base oils in 2020, a 9% decrease compared to the year before, while imports increased by 15% on a wave ...

Castrol recently announced a partnership with packaging technology company Pulpex – which has developed a technology that forms bottles from wood pu ...

Serbia consumed 54,000 tons of finished lubricants in 2019, but the country recycles only 1.5% of that quantity back into base stocks, and it has a lo ...

France’s lubricant consumption decreased by 3% in February compared to the same month in 2020, the second consecutive year-to-year decline after fiv ...

Total has decided to expand its three-year-old lubricant blending plant in Russia, stating that it is taking the action after a steady ramp-up in prod ...

Perstorp has lifted the force majeure notice it issued on April 9 for supply of pentaerythritol mono and related materials, having resolved production ...

Poland consumed almost 220,000 metric tons of lubricants in 2020, down 7% from the year before due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an oil indus ...