API Group III base oil will enjoy the strongest base stock demand growth through 2017, followed by Group II, consultancy Kline and Co. concluded in studies that forecast future global supply and demand for lubricant base stocks. The firm also forecasts a continuing decline in demand for Group I stocks. During a web presentation Sept. 25, Anuj Kumar, a project lead in Parsippany, N.J.-based Klines Energy Practice, discussed results from the companys three recently completed global market studies...

NexLube now expects to launch its base oil rerefinery in Florida in July 2014, following delays related to weather and equipment. Weve had a lot of weather delays – a lot of rain – and a couple equipment delays, NexLube President Monte Bell told Lube Report yesterday. Were back on track now, and we would expect full commercial operation July 1, 2014. The facility is expected to process 24 million gallons of used oil annually and produce about 20 million gallons per year of API Grou...

Fuchs Petrolub recently opened a new lubricants plant in Russia to offer more products on local and regional markets. The 15 million (U.S. $20.4 million) blending plant is located in the Rosva industrial park near Kaluga city, 180 kilometers southeast of Moscow. Construction began in 2011. Within two years we succeeded in building a state-of-the-art, modern production facility, Fuchs said in its Sept. 19 press release. The plant meets the highest standards of quality, safety and environmental p...

Michigan issued stop-use and stop-removal orders on oils from Bullseye Automotive Lubricants of Illinois this week, the states second such mandate in a month. The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development announced in an Oct. 7 press release a ban on products bearing the Bullseye name, asserting that the lubricants made by Bullseye Automotive Lubricants Inc. can damage engines. This comes less than a month after the agencys Sept. 12 orders prohibiting the sale or use of motor oil...

Boss Lubricants added a new warehouse and blending facility in Edmonton, Canada, to grow its opportunities to supply and service the northern Alberta market. The new facility will blend mainly glycol based products, and a few specialty products also, Jarrett Flegel, Boss Lubricants president and chief operating officer, told Lube Report. Specialty products the company offers include railroad diesel oil, chain oil and motorcycle oil. The facility features a racking storage system, bulk terminali...

Californias revised laws on the recyclability of plastic containers — enforceable as of January 2013 under the Rigid Plastic Packaging Container program — apply to any U.S. or international manufacturers that supply lubricants or other products packaged in plastic either directly or indirectly for final sale in California. Bottles, buckets, tubs, tubes, clamshells, jugs, and any other type of containers that hold between 5 ounces and 8 gallons of liquids that are sold in California ...

American Refining Group is the first oil refinery granted license to use the Made in USA Certified Seal for its Brad Penn lubricants, Kensol naphthas and distillates, and Kendex base oils, custom blends, waxes and resins. Renewable oil and bioproducts firm Solazyme entered the textile lubricants market via a commercial supply agreement with Goulston Technologies.

Adrian Brown is away this week.