Last week Lukoil broke ground on a 100,000 metric tons per year blending plant in Almaty, Kazahkstan. Eduardo Romero was named general director of Iberian Lube Base Oils Co., an API Group II/III base stock joint venture of SK Lubricants and Repsol, replacing Jos Sancho starting June 1. LLK International started supplying engine oils for factory fill to Chinese carmaker Lifans assembly plant in Cherkessk, Russia. In April Krahn Chemie took over distribution of the Additin industrial additive packages of Rhein Chemie Additives in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
