Russian specialty chemical producer Vyazemsky Plant for Synthetic Products expanded its capacity to manufacture fatty acid esters, a feedstock for a v ...

Poland’s government will introduce a waste oil management bill to encourage that used lubricants be recycled into base stocks instead of being burne ...

Joint venture Avista Green announced last week that its new base oil rerefinery in Kalundborg, Denmark was operational. The facility replaces an Avist ...

Chemists at two German research institutes have devised lubricant-filled microcapsules that can be mixed into thermoplastics. They hope the material w ...

Total Lubricants last week announced an expansion plan to develop and upgrade its blending plant site in Ferrybridge in the United Kingdom.

Stihl, a German agricultural equipment maker, recently started a campaign to fight entities that counterfeit its genuine machine lubricants and other ...

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Despite setbacks from the pandemic, demand for bio-lubricants should continue to grow faster than the overall global lubricants market, an analyst sai ...

Independent lubricants blender Fuchs Petrolub SE posted steep declines in profit and sales for the second quarter, compared to results in 2019’s sec ...

The European Automobile Manufacturers' Association issued a revision to its 2016 European oil sequences last week, ahead of the anticipated release of ...

Shell intends to increase the production capacity of its 180,000 tons per year blending plant in Torzhok by 50 percent by 2023, a company official sai ...

The current economic downturn should cause a setback for demand of lubricants used in wind turbines, but the industry should still offer good profits ...

As pandemic lockdowns eased across Europe, the European Union’s carmakers enjoyed an uptick in registrations of new passenger cars in June, accordin ...

Ukraine’s government decided to exclude base oils from an import tax implemented in late May, explaining they were mistakenly subject to the tax bec ...

The European Commission granted conditional approval last week for the merger of PKN Orlen and Lotos, Poland’s two main oil companies and lubricant ...

A British supplier of bicycle cleaning products devised a process to determine the performance characteristics of chain lubes, which can be the differ ...

Rosneft’s domestic lubricant sales grew almost 10% to 712,000 tons in 2019, up from 650,000 tons the year before as expanded distribution channels p ...

Europe reported slightly lower grease production in 2019, according to a survey conducted by the United States-based National Lubricating Grease Insti ...

By a slender margin, base oil traders stayed within the half-year 200,000 metric ton quota on API Group II imports into the European Union, probably b ...

Russian lubricant maker Lukoil boosted production at its stand alone lubricant blending plants by 5 percent to 138,000 metric tons in 2019, thanks to ...