Fuchs Petrolub Group AG has acquired a long-term lease for industrial land in India, where it plans to begin building a new lubricants plant in the second quarter as part of expansion plans for its rapidly growing, wholly owned Fuchs Lubricants (India) Pvt. Ltd. subsidiary. Fuchs has now acquired a 95-years lease for 40,000 square meters of green-field industrial land from the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation to set up a new lubricants plant in the Thane district near Navi Mumbai,...

High Velocity Alternative Energy on March 4 announced it had received an annual contract for $30 million to supply a major Midwestern distributor of lubricants, anti-freeze and solvents. The distributor supplies national auto parts stores, convenience stores, national retail chains and gas stations. Were under a non-disclosure agreement with the contract, because were doing private label products for the distributor, High Velocity Chief Executive Officer Richard Carter told Lube Report. The mos...

Klber Lubrication and Chem-Trend, two business units of Freudenberg Chemical Specialties KG, will produce specialty lubricants and release agents at a new plant Freudenberg opened on Thursday in Qingpu, a district of Shanghai, China. The company said that with an investment of 19 million (U.S. $29 million), the new Freudenberg Chemical Specialties plant will be the groups most modern facility. The site has a total area of more than 30,000 square meters. The company has used about one third of t...

LONDON – Is there further growth for naphthenic base stocks? Yes, certainly, said the president of Ergon Europe at an industry conference here last month. Should we worry about supply? No. Global supply of pale oils will increase by up to 1.5 million metric tons per year by 2012, with even more plans to increase capacity by 2014. Per Klintstam, president of Ergon Europe, Middle East, Africa, based in Brussels, described the outlook for naphthenic supply and demand from 2006 to 2012 at the...

Third Coast Chemicals recently completed a $3 million expansion to its brake fluid production facility in Pearland, Texas, that more than doubles its blending and storage capacity from 1.5 million gallons to more than 3 million gallons. The expansion follows the companys acquisition last July of Lyondell Chemical Co.s brake fluid business. According to company vice president Grif Carnes, the expansion added 24 new tanks with 1.5 million gallons of blending and storage capabilities. With the new...