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Axel Americas Expands Grease Plant

February 24, 2016

Axel Americas completed expansion of its grease plant in Mississippi, done in response to growing demand for its industr ...

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Rerefiner Aims to Make Group III in 2017

January 27, 2016

Puralube plans to upgrade one of its rerefineries in Troeglitz, Germany, to enable production of API Group III base oil ...

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Chemtura to Double Italy Additives Output

December 16, 2015

Chemtura Corp. will build a second lubricant antioxidant plant at its Latina, Italy, site, doubling its capacity there b ...

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Shell Moves Forward on LAO Expansion

December 2, 2015

Shell Chemical LP will increase production of linear alpha olefins (LAO) at its manufacturing plant in Geismar, La., add ...

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Keller-Heartt Opens Wisconsin Warehouse

November 18, 2015

Chicago-based lubricants distributor Keller-Heartt expanded operations by opening a 35,000 square foot warehouse in sout ...

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Ineos Aims High with High-vis PAO

July 8, 2015

Ineos Oligomers will build a unit at its La Porte, Texas, polyalphaolefin plant that will produce 20,000 metric tons per ...

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Yanbu Group II to Stream in 2Q 2016

July 8, 2015

Luberefs Yanbual Bahr, Saudi Arabia, refinery expansion – which will add 700,000 metric tons per year of API Group ...

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Enoc to Become Largest Emirates Producer

June 10, 2015

Emirates National Oil Co. has increased its lubricants and grease blending capacity to 300,000 metric tons per year with ...

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Fuchs Acquires Pentosin

May 20, 2015

Fuchs Petrolub SE announced Monday that it has acquired Deutsche Pentosin-Werke GmbH, a privately owned blender with ext ...

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ExMo Completes Baytown Expansion

May 6, 2015

ExxonMobil last week announced completion of its Baytown, Texas, refinery expansion, which will increase production of i ...

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Nigerian Blender to Boost Capacity

May 6, 2015

Nigerian lubricant producer Conoil will invest 5 billion naira (U.S. $2.5 million) on an additional blending plant in La ...

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Lubrizol to Expand Painesville Plant

April 29, 2015

Lubrizol Corp. will increase capacity for chemicals – including some used in specialty additive systems for lubric ...

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BASF to Expand Amines Capacity

March 11, 2015

BASF announced plans March 4 to significantly expand its production capacity for 20 specialty amines at its chemical com ...

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Allegheny: Bigger, Better, Faster

February 18, 2015

Allegheny Petroleum Products Co. is nearly doubling the size of its Ambridge, Pa., facility, to make way for more blendi ...

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Sinopec Expands in Cameroon

December 17, 2014

Sinopec plans to increase its activities in Cameroon – including production and sale of lubricants – through ...

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Eastern Oil Expands

November 12, 2014

Lubricants and metalworking fluids manufacturer and distributor Eastern Oil Co. completed a 10,000 square foot facility ...

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Hydrodec Settles for $20M Over Fire

November 12, 2014

Transformer oil rerefiner Hydrodec has settled with its insurers on a $20 million claim following the fire damage its Ca ...

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CP Chem to Add PAO Capacity

November 5, 2014

Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LP yesterday announced a study to expand its low-viscosity polyalphaolefin capacity by 10, ...