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Petronas to Acquire, Upgrade Maleic Plant

June 16, 2023

Petronas Chemicals Group Bhd. is buying a maleic anhydride plant from its Malaysian joint venture with BASF and plans to ...

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Maleic Anhydride Plant to be Built in West Virginia

January 18, 2023

TCL Specialties LLC, a subsidiary of India’s Thirumalai Chemicals Ltd., will break ground this month on two manufactur ...

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Indian Oil to Make Maleic Anhydride

November 5, 2021

Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. said this week that it will build a large maleic anhydride plant at its oil refinery in Panipat, I ...

Capacity Rising for Infineum Detergents

Capacity Rising for Infineum Detergents

November 3, 2020

A lubricant additive factory that ExxonMobil operates on behalf of Infineum is wrapping up an expansion of a facility th ...

Low-BN Cylinder Oils Fall Short of the Goal

Low-BN Cylinder Oils Fall Short of the Goal

November 2, 2020

In effect since the start of the year, the International Marine Organization’s 2020 international convention was imple ...

Kangtai Builds Additive Factory

Kangtai Builds Additive Factory

July 3, 2020

Chinese additives maker Kangtai Lubricant Additives Co. started construction in June on a 50,000 metric tons per year ad ...

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The Journey to Compliance

December 21, 2019

Now that the marine industrys approach to IMO 2020 seems to be settling out, lubricant producers can ramp up efforts on ...

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Growth Seen Looming for Additives

October 2, 2019

Global lubricant additive demand volume will grow 0.5 percent per year from 4.6 million tons in 2018 to more than 4.8 mi ...

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Additive Volumes Forecast to Grow

September 27, 2019

Global lubricant additive demand volume will grow 0.5 percent per year from 4.6 million tons in 2018 to more than 4.8 mi ...

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Quenching LSPI in Modern Engines

April 23, 2018

Low-speed pre-ignition can knock down even the fittest of modern engines. Research says calcium based additives may be r ...

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Chevron Oronite Doubles Carboxylate Capacity

November 7, 2017

Chevron Oronite completed an expansion of its additives plant in Singapore that doubles its global carboxylate-based det ...

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Lubricating the Energy Boom

April 18, 2017

Natural gas is fueling ever more of the worlds increasing energy demands. Stationary engines havent escaped this trend, ...

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A New Course for Marine Cylinder Oils

December 22, 2016

Emissions regulations and fuel efficiency demands are forcing marine engine manufacturers to get creative fast, and cyli ...

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Additives Boost Fuel Economy

December 29, 2015

Protecting engine parts with surface-active additives is critical to improving fuel economy, and may be a revolution in ...

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Will Additives Outpace the Lubes Market?

December 23, 2015

Demand for higher performance products means higher demand for additives, but not all components will benefit equally.

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Oronite to Make Carboxylates in Singapore

January 13, 2015

Chevron Oronite announced yesterday that it will install carboxylate capacity at its lubricant additive plant in Singapo ...

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The Contributions of Additives

December 30, 2014

Formulators use a wide range of chemicals to perform the long list of jobs assigned to lubricant additives. Todays engin ...