Esters

Perstorp Buys OQ Chemicals’ Dutch Esters Plant

Perstorp Buys OQ Chemicals’ Dutch Esters Plant

December 16, 2024

Swedish chemical company Perstorp last week announced it had bought OQ Chemicals’ Dutch esters manufacturing facility.

OQ Chemicals Ups Carboxylic Acids Prices

OQ Chemicals Ups Carboxylic Acids Prices

December 11, 2024

Germany-based OQ Chemicals announced it will increase prices for its range of carboxylic acids.

From Food Waste to Innovation

From Food Waste to Innovation

November 4, 2024

ChainCraft explains how it uses a non-GMO fermentation process to upcycle food waste into medium-chain fatty acids.

Norac Builds Esterification Line  

Norac Builds Esterification Line  

October 16, 2024

Norac Additives broke ground on a new esterification line at its production site in Helena, Arkansas, giving German pare ...

Oleon Acquires Brazilian Company

Oleon Acquires Brazilian Company

October 2, 2024

Belgian oleo-chemicals company Oleon acquired a majority stake in A.Azevedo Óleos, a Brazilian oleo-chemical company ba ...

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OQ Restarts Production at German Plants

May 7, 2024

OQ Chemicals today announced the restart of production at its German plants in Oberhausen and Marl after overcoming a re ...

Secondary Polyol Ester Technology: A Novel Base Oil Family for Developing Bio-Lubricants

Secondary Polyol Ester Technology: A Novel Base Oil Family for Developing Bio-Lubricants

April 30, 2024

VBASE Oil Co. has designed and evaluated a new family of high-performance sustainable base stocks. How can they be used, ...

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Big Growth Seen for Immersion Cooling

April 9, 2024

Data center density and accompanying energy consumption continue to rapidly grow, highlighting needs for more efficient ...

Lubes’n’Greases February Issue Available

Lubes’n’Greases February Issue Available

February 10, 2024

Discover how extended producer responsibility in India might affect rerefining in the country, how the automotive indust ...

Lubes’n’Greases February Issue Available

Lubes’n’Greases February Issue Available

February 7, 2024

Discover how extended producer responsibility in India might affect rerefining in the country, how the automotive indust ...

Lubes’n’Greases February Issue Available

Lubes’n’Greases February Issue Available

February 6, 2024

Discover how extended producer responsibility in India might affect rerefining in the country, how the automotive indust ...

Crafting Biobased Fatty Acids from Food Waste

Crafting Biobased Fatty Acids from Food Waste

February 1, 2024

A Dutch startup may have discovered a new, more sustainable way to manufacture fatty acids using food waste as a feedsto ...

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Savita Commissions Synthetic Ester Plant

October 20, 2023

India’s Savita Oil Technologies Ltd. commissioned a new synthetic ester manufacturing plant, citing opportunities in n ...

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Demand Growth Slows for Esters Used in Lubes

October 18, 2023

The shift towards better quality lubricants has resulted in slower growth in demand for esters that are used in lubrican ...

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Shell Acquires Transformer Fluid, Coolant Lines

October 10, 2023

Shell Lubricants acquired two product lines from United Kingdom-based M&I Materials Ltd. – one for synthetic and e ...

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Tsuno Makes Esters from Used Cooking Oil

July 28, 2023

Tsuno Group, a Japanese chemical company, announced the launch of fatty acid esters made from used cooking oil. The lub ...

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TAIF Plant Now Makes Esters, Polyalkylene Glycol

July 5, 2023

Russia’s only polyalphaolefins complex now can also produce polyalkylene glycols and complex esters, after completing ...