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Pandemic Hits Rerefiners from Both Sides
Photo: James/Adobe Stock An empty bridge leading to Roosevelt Island in New York City illustrates the lack of traffic in the Covid-19 pandemic era.

Pandemic Hits Rerefiners from Both Sides

Lube Report Americas - May 8, 2020

Rerefiners in North America are feeling the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic in the form of reduced demand for their bas ...

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Safety-Kleen Adds Northeastern U.S. Rerefinery

May 8, 2020

Clean Harbors acquired a small API Group II+ rerefinery in New Hampshire last month, providing its Safety-Kleen subsidia ...

Q1 Sales Up for Clean Harbors, HCC

Q1 Sales Up for Clean Harbors, HCC

May 5, 2020

Clean Harbors’ Safety-Kleen segment and Heritage-Crystal Clean’s oil business segment both reported higher revenues ...

Clean Harbors Hikes Used Oil Pricing

Clean Harbors Hikes Used Oil Pricing

March 4, 2020

Clean Harbors announced on Monday that its Safety-Kleen subsidiary and all of its waste oil collection businesses will r ...

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Q4 Kind to Clean Harbors, HCC, Quaker

March 4, 2020

Quaker Chemical reported an increase in fourth quarter net income, but a decline for 2019. Its net sales were higher for ...

Base Oils from Plastic

Base Oils from Plastic

November 13, 2019

A group of American researchers claimed last month to have developed a catalyst that effectively recycles plastic grocer ...

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Chile Enacts Recycling Regulation

November 6, 2019

Chile enacted a law last week that aims to recycle used lubricants by giving producers and end-users responsibilities to ...

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Safety-Kleen Revenue Up, HollyFrontier Results Mixed

November 6, 2019

Clean Harbors Safety-Kleen segment posted an uptick in revenue and waste oil collection, while HollyFrontiers lubricants ...

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Results Down for HCC, WD-40

October 23, 2019

Heritage-Crystal Cleans oil business segment reported a small decline in revenues for its third quarter, and WD-40 poste ...

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Vertex-Tensile JV Boosts Rerefining Plans

August 14, 2019

Tensile Capital Management LLC formed a joint venture with Vertex Energy Inc., agreeing to inject capital that will acce ...

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Earnings Drop at Milacron, HCC

July 31, 2019

Milacron reported a dip in operating earnings and sales for its Fluid Technologies segment in the second quarter, and He ...

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Ecuador Aims to Recycle More Used Lubes

May 29, 2019

The government of Ecuador aims for the country to recycle 100 percent of its used lubricants and has vowed to guarantee ...

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FTC Rejects Recycled Oil Rule Changes

August 1, 2018

The Federal Trade Commission rejected recycled oil rule changes suggested by rerefiner Avista Oil - to specify that base ...

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Q2 Earnings: HCC, Quaker Chemical, Milacron

August 1, 2018

Heritage-Crystal Cleans oil business segment and Milacrons Fluid Technologies segment each reported increases in revenue ...

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2017 Proves Positive for Hydrodec

January 31, 2018

Transformer oil rerefiner Hydrodec Group posted its first positive full-year profits in the groups history for 2017, and ...