Equipment

Exxon Ups Spending on Recycling
ExxonMobile produces and recycles large quantities of plastics. ©Faizal Ramli / shutterstock

Exxon Ups Spending on Recycling

November 27, 2024

Oil giant ExxonMobil will fork out U.S.$200 million on expanding recycling operations at its Beaumont and Baytown refine ...

Optimizing ROI in Maintenance

Optimizing ROI in Maintenance

November 4, 2024

Emerson’s Izzy Rivera outlines some essential strategies designed to optimize return on investment in maintenance.

Shell Group III Unit Gets Electric Heater

Shell Group III Unit Gets Electric Heater

September 18, 2024

British oil major Shell’s plans to convert a hydrocracker at its Wesseling, Germany, refinery into a production unit f ...

The Importance of Equipment Reliability

The Importance of Equipment Reliability

July 1, 2024

Smartcorr explains how equipment reliability can mitigate financial losses, environmental damage and safety hazards.

Cold Blending Is a Step Toward Sustainability

Cold Blending Is a Step Toward Sustainability

July 1, 2024

How can a novel blending process reduce the carbon footprint of lubricant manufacturing operations?

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Metalub Opens Costa Rica Rerefinery

June 19, 2024

A Costa Rican lubricant company this week opened what it claims to be the first waste lubricant refinery in Central Amer ...

Eneos Pilot Plant Makes Rerefined Oil

Eneos Pilot Plant Makes Rerefined Oil

May 31, 2024

Eneos announced on Wednesday that it has produced rerefined base oil  in a demonstration project, as part of its work i ...

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More Work Needed on Sustainability Standards

May 22, 2024

Trade associations in the lubricants industry have taken significant steps the past few years developing standards to he ...

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Industrial Projects to Build Lube Plant in Russia

May 21, 2024

Russian company Industrial Projects expressed intentions last week to build a lubricant blending plant in the Rostov obl ...

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Recycling Oil Containers into Roads

April 30, 2024

A ground-up mixture of drained plastic motor oil canisters can be used as a construction additive in road pavement mater ...

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Chinese Blenders Aim to Differentiate

April 26, 2024

Major Chinese blenders believe investing in differentiation, efficiency and expansion is the only way to attract big cli ...

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Lukoil Builds Grease and Additives Plant

April 9, 2024

Lukoil broke ground recently on a grease, metalworking fluids and lubricant additives production facility in Volgograd.

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Russian Blender Makes Metal Containers

March 12, 2024

Russian lubricant blender United Petrochemicals opened a line that produces metal motor oil containers designed to comba ...

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Lack of Upkeep Hampers Turkmenbashi

February 13, 2024

Turkmenistan’s only base oil plant has been running at less than half of its 150,000 metric tons per year capacity due ...

Lubes’n’Greases January Issue Available

Lubes’n’Greases January Issue Available

January 10, 2024

Will PTFE be banned in the coming years, and how might increasing regulation affect lubricant formulations? What did Nor ...

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Nynas, Stena Link to Recycle Transformer Fluid

January 9, 2024

Nynas AB has entered a partnership with waste management firm Stena Recycling to collect, process and reuse used electri ...

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Vietnam Requires Lube Suppliers to Recycle

January 5, 2024

Vietnam this week enacted an extended producer responsibility law requiring suppliers of lubricants and other materials ...