Last week, Shell (SOPUS Products), Martin Lubricants, Advanced Lubrication Specialties, Sinclair, Chemlube and Pinnacle Oil notified their customers of a price increase on finished lubricants. Last week, we reported that Cam2 announced a price increase on bulk and packaged lubricants and greases.

CITGO Petroleum said it will keep its headquarters in Houston, Texas despite speculation that it would move the offices of its top executives to the Caribbean, reportedly to be Aruba, following the appointment of a new CITGO CEO Asdrúbal Chávez.

Pilot Chemical last Tuesday announced it is investing $5 million this year – and tens of millions of dollars over the next five years – in technology and innovation. A majority of the investment will create and support a state-of-the-art Innovation Center in Pittsburgh, PA.

Japanese petrochemical firm KH Neochem Co., Ltd. announced that it resolved at a meeting of its Board of Directors held on December 25, 2017 to build a ¥7.5 billion (U.S. $67 million) facility in western Japan to manufacture additives for refrigeration lubricants .

CPC Corp., Taiwan state-owned petroleum company, announced that its lubricant blending plant in Vietnam’s Dong Nai Province will start production by the end of next year. The lube blending plant will have an annual capacity of 32,000 kiloliters of lubricants and solvents.

• HollyFrontier to Increase Price of Its Group I Base Oils by 15 CPG on All Grades Except Brightstock, Effective January 26, 2018
• HollyFrontier-owned Petro-Canada Lubricants Increases Price of Its Group II Base Oils 70N, 200N, 350N and 600N by 13 CPG and 100N by 16 CPG and Also Its Group II+ 100N by 22 CPG, All Effective January 16, 2018
• Paulsboro Refining to Increase Its Group I Base Oils by 15 CPG Effective January 31
• ANGUS Chemical Company Names Dave Neuberger as CEO
• BASF PETRONAS Starts up New Plant to Produce HR-PIB in Kuantan, Malaysia
• FUCHS Lubricants South Africa to Set Up Lubritech Division
• DNV GL Launches New JDP to Test Biodegradable Lubricants
• Lee Shun Chin Designated as Next President of CPC Corp., Taiwan
• Marco Digioia Appointed as New President of ATIEL
• AEM Acquires Data Analytics Company Hargrove & Associates