Rerefining

Pandemic Hits Rerefiners from Both Sides
Photo: James/Adobe Stock An empty bridge leading to Roosevelt Island in New York City illustrates the lack of traffic in the Covid-19 pandemic era.

Pandemic Hits Rerefiners from Both Sides

Lube Report Americas - May 8, 2020

Rerefiners in North America are feeling the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic in the form of reduced demand for their bas ...

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Safety-Kleen Adds Northeastern U.S. Rerefinery

Lube Report Americas - May 8, 2020

Clean Harbors acquired a small API Group II+ rerefinery in New Hampshire last month, providing its Safety-Kleen subsidia ...

Q1 Sales Up for Clean Harbors, HCC

Q1 Sales Up for Clean Harbors, HCC

Lube Report Americas - May 5, 2020

Clean Harbors’ Safety-Kleen segment and Heritage-Crystal Clean’s oil business segment both reported higher revenues ...

Clean Harbors Hikes Used Oil Pricing

Clean Harbors Hikes Used Oil Pricing

Lube Report Americas - March 4, 2020

Clean Harbors announced on Monday that its Safety-Kleen subsidiary and all of its waste oil collection businesses will r ...

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Q4 Kind to Clean Harbors, HCC, Quaker

Lube Report Americas - March 4, 2020

Quaker Chemical reported an increase in fourth quarter net income, but a decline for 2019. Its net sales were higher for ...

Base Oils from Plastic

Base Oils from Plastic

Lube Report Americas - November 13, 2019

A group of American researchers claimed last month to have developed a catalyst that effectively recycles plastic grocer ...

Chile Enacts Recycling Regulation

Chile Enacts Recycling Regulation

Lube Report Americas - November 6, 2019

Chile enacted a law last week that aims to recycle used lubricants by giving producers and end-users responsibilities to ...

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Safety-Kleen Revenue Up, HollyFrontier Results Mixed

Lube Report Americas - November 6, 2019

Clean Harbors Safety-Kleen segment posted an uptick in revenue and waste oil collection, while HollyFrontiers lubricants ...

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Results Down for HCC, WD-40

Lube Report Americas - October 23, 2019

Heritage-Crystal Cleans oil business segment reported a small decline in revenues for its third quarter, and WD-40 poste ...

Vertex-Tensile JV Boosts Rerefining Plans

Vertex-Tensile JV Boosts Rerefining Plans

Lube Report Americas - August 14, 2019

Tensile Capital Management LLC formed a joint venture with Vertex Energy Inc., agreeing to inject capital that will acce ...

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Earnings Drop at Milacron, HCC

Lube Report Americas - July 31, 2019

Milacron reported a dip in operating earnings and sales for its Fluid Technologies segment in the second quarter, and He ...

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Ecuador Aims to Recycle More Used Lubes

Lube Report Americas - May 29, 2019

The government of Ecuador aims for the country to recycle 100 percent of its used lubricants and has vowed to guarantee ...

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FTC Rejects Recycled Oil Rule Changes

Lube Report Americas - August 1, 2018

The Federal Trade Commission rejected recycled oil rule changes suggested by rerefiner Avista Oil - to specify that base ...

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Q2 Earnings: HCC, Quaker Chemical, Milacron

Lube Report Americas - August 1, 2018

Heritage-Crystal Cleans oil business segment and Milacrons Fluid Technologies segment each reported increases in revenue ...

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2017 Proves Positive for Hydrodec

Lube Report Americas - January 31, 2018

Transformer oil rerefiner Hydrodec Group posted its first positive full-year profits in the groups history for 2017, and ...