To meet increasing demand for small pack products, Exol Lubricants in the UK has invested in an additional six-head Adelphi Masterfil filling machine at its production facility in Wednesbury, enabling the UK’s largest independently-owned lubricants blender to offer even greater flexibility to customers. Specialising in filling 1- and 5-litre containers, the additional filling line further […]

Cellier, Blending and Formulation Solutions, part of ABB France, has brought to the market the High Viscosity Drum Decanting System, designed to pump and dose highly viscous liquids stored in drums and incorporating them into the formulation process. Widely used in the chemicals industry to store high-value raw materials and additives, drums and barrels regularly […]

Volkswagen Group Logistics will be using certified fuel from vegetable residues for certain new car shipments via marine routes. The fuel is produced from materials such as used cooking oil from restaurants and the food industry. The first car freighter was re-fuelled for the first time with this oil in mid-November 2020 and a second […]

Biofuels, which are made from renewable organic matter, hold great potential as green alternatives to fossil fuels in the aviation and transport industries. However, although they have previously been commercialised for transport and power generation, they are not currently used on a large scale due to their high price, which is almost twice that of […]

The ASEAN region accounts for about 8% of the global finished lubricants market. In comparison to developed markets, lubricants consumers in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member-countries are quite price sensitive, especially in the commercial automotive segment, where the use of monograde oils is still common. Low-quality, mineral-oil-based lubricants are still used in […]

Q8Oils has signed a long-term global partnership agreement with INNIO Jenbacher to supply lubricants for all Jenbacher gas engines that operate on non-natural gas, including biogas, sewage gas and landfill gas. Combining the technical expertise and knowledge of INNIO Jenbacher and Q8Oils will further enhance the durability and efficiency of Jenbacher type 2, 3, 4 […]

A new deep refining complex was launched at the NIS oil refinery in Pančevo, Serbia, by the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić and Gazprom Neft CEO Alexander Dyukov.  The new complex will enable the plant to increase production levels of motor fuels, as well as commence production of petroleum coke in Serbia for the first […]

Argentina’s YPF has signed an agreement to produce lubricants to be sold by Volvo for use in its trucks and buses. “The three-year agreement involves the production of lubricants for engines, gearboxes and transmissions for Volvo trucks and buses,” the automaker said in a statement. The products will be sold through Volvo’s network of official […]

Indonesia’s PT Pertamina Lubricants (PTPL) has signed a memorandum of understanding with its two business partners in Australia, HLT Australia Pty Ltd and Berdi Australia Pty Ltd, during the 2020 Trade Expo Virtual Exhibition (TEI VE).  The MoU was signed by PT Pertamina Lubricants Vice President (Overseas) Mia Krishna Anggraini, and witnessed by the Sales […]

Hyundai Motor Company and INEOS have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore new opportunities to accelerate the global hydrogen economy.  Hyundai Motor and INEOS will jointly investigate opportunities for the production and supply of hydrogen as well as the worldwide deployment of hydrogen applications and technologies.  Both companies will initially seek to facilitate […]