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American EV Sales Keep Rising

September 28, 2022

Registrations of new electric vehicles in the United States reached 442,788 in the second quarter, up 13% from the same period of 2021 and more than 2 ...

Automotive aftermarket selling prices in the United States – for motor oils and other products such as tires and windshield wipers – have risen 30 ...

Russia exported less base oil in June and July, compared to February, as shipments to Europe dwindled under the barrage of sanctions by the United Sta ...

Declaring that it sees encouraging signs of recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, India-based Maximus International Ltd. say it plans to expand its pro ...

Sinopec’s Yanshan Petrochemical is installing a production line to make butylene oxide, a chemical intermediate used to make lubricant additives alo ...

The lubricants business of Hong Kong-based Yip’s Chemical Holdings Ltd. reported an operating loss and an 8% decline in sales for the first half of ...

Afton Lifts Force Majeure

September 21, 2022

Afton Chemical lifted its force majeure declaration effective Sept. 8, the company confirmed to Lube Report. In July, Afton notified customers it decl ...

Blue Tide Environmental – which is developing a network of used motor oil recycling facilities across North America – last week announced a final ...

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 ...

War Disrupts Azerbaijan Market

September 20, 2022

Azerbaijan’s finished lubricant imports volume grew more than 60% in the first half of 2022, driven by a growing shortage of Russian base oils for d ...

France Lube Sales Fall in July

September 20, 2022

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 ...

Oronite Expands Singapore Plant

September 16, 2022

Chevron Oronite said Thursday that it has completed an expansion of its lubricant additive manufacturing plant in Singapore – increasing the number ...

South Korea Export Volume Dips

September 16, 2022

The volume of base oil exported by South Korea fell 3% in August, compared to the same month last year, while the declared value of the exported base ...

Piedmont Lithium chose Etowah, Tennessee as the site of a 30,000 metric tons per year lithium hydroxide plant, with completion and start of production ...

New EPA Risk Regs Add Red Tape

September 14, 2022

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed changes to its Risk Management Program that put more emphasis on climate change and power-loss r ...

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 ...

Japan Lubricating Oil Society recently reported results of studies that it completed into the accuracy of test methods for friction, wear and load-bea ...

China aims to reach carbon neutrality by 2060, which will likely offer opportunities for metallocene polyalphaolefin as a base stock in lubricants for ...

PV Oil Lube JSC’s profit after tax jumped by more than 70% for the first six months of this year, likely benefiting from acceleration in Vietnam’s ...