Volume 1 Issue 27
SSY Base Oil Shipping Report
July 3, 2018Adrian Brown is away. His column will reappear in the July 10 edition of Lube Report EMEA.
Private Equity Firm to Absorb Italmatch
July 3, 2018Bain Capital Private Equity announced an agreement last week to buy Italmatch Chemicals S.p.A., a lubricant additive supplier that has been on its own acquisition tear.
Serbian Fam Opens Chemicals Plant
July 3, 2018Serbian lube marketer Fam recently opened a corrosion inhibitor and degreaser production unit. The government is now seeking a foreign investor following years of scandal and financial struggles under its previous owners.
Oxea to Add NPG Capacity
July 3, 2018Oxea will increase its European production capacity for neopentyl glycol - a polyalcohol that can be used as a building block in lubricants - by early 2020 through a debottlenecking project now underway at its factory in Oberhausen, Germany, the company announced last week.
From Other Editions of Lube Report
July 3, 2018Briefly Noted
July 3, 2018Gazpromneft-Lubricants will supply Russian Fishery, a commercial fishing enterprise, with more than 850 metric tons of marine oils in 2018, up 25 percent from 2017. United Kingdom-based Univar Specialty Consumables Ltd. extended its agreement to distribute industrial lubricants and greases forCastrol Oil Co.