Vietnamese lubricant company NPOil broke ground on a second lubricant blending plant expected to boost the company’s exports to Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East and Africa, according to its press release.

Representatives of Europe’s waste oil rerefining industry called on the European Union to help grow the industry with stronger regulations and clearer rules needed to secure long-term investment and advance the bloc’s circular-economy and decarbonization goals. Demand for higher-quality base stocks, moves to reduce reliance on imported feedstocks and pressure by lawmakers and end users to cut emissions are driving renewed interest in waste oil regeneration, a shift highlighted by the Clean I...

The volume of finished lubricant sales by independent manufacturers in North America rose 3.7% from 2018 to 2024, according to a new study by S&P Global, despite an 11.7% contraction in the market over the same period.

Aster Chemicals and Energy will fork out U.S.$155 million to upgrade its refinery on Pulau Bukom in Singapore, the company said Dec. 9.  

Eneos Hastens Cooling Fluid DevelopmentEneos Holdings is using NVIDIA’s Alchemi platform to speed development of immersion-cooling fluids for data centers and oxygen evolution reaction catalysts for hydrogen production. The company said the AI system shortened work that once took years to months by enabling large virtual screenings and faster simulations. Alchemi evaluated tens of millions of molecules for cooling fluids and nearly 100 million catalyst hypotheses and narrowed each field to abo...