Finished lubricants consumption in Japan grew 22% year-to-year in April, compared to the same month last year. It marked the third consecutive month t ...

A fire broke out Saturday night at Ergon’s refinery in Newell, West Virginia, damaging a fuels unit and forcing the whole facility to shut down. The ...

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 ...

In Japan, KH Neochem Co. reported higher first-quarter operating profit and sales for its performance materials segment, which includes raw materials ...

South Korea’s base oil export volume was much higher in April than in the same month last year, making the third consecutive month of increases. And ...

Curacao’s Refineria di Korsou reached an agreement intended to lead to a consortium of local organizations taking over management of the Isla Refine ...

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 ...

Chevron Lubricants Lanka Plc. reported large increases in profit and sales for the quarter ending March 31, compared to the same period last year, and ...

Ampol announced Monday that it will keep open its Lytton, Australia, refinery – which includes a finished lubricant blending plant – after agreein ...

Thailand’s central government is working to develop its palm oil industry, and the strategy includes promoting demand for bio-lubricants, -greases a ...

Moove, Cosan’s lubricants arm, reported increases in profit, revenue and sales volume for the first quarter of 2021, building off of a strong end to ...

BR Distribuidora, the largset lubricants supplier in Brazil, has entered an agreement with RefiPampa to blend Lubrax-branded finished lubes for sale i ...

Supply chain challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have underlined the importance of the partnerships between distributors, lubricant manufacture ...

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 ...

South Korean base oil refiners SK Lubricants, GS Caltex and Hyundai Shell Base Oil, along with Thai Oil’s lube base oil business, all recorded much ...