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Specialty chemicals supplier Soltex announced yesterday the purchase of Petroleum Chemicals, an acquisition made to help Soltex expand into the lubric ...

Royal Dutch Shell is narrowing the number of bidders for its majority stake in Shell Tongyi (Beijing) Petroleum, part of its lubricant business in Chi ...

GP, Repsol Ally in India

June 23, 2015

GP Petroleums Ltd. tied up with Repsol to produce and supply the Spanish oil majors lubricants in India.

Industry Calendar

June 23, 2015

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DALLAS – Angus Chemical Co., which Dow Chemical divested on Feb. 3, is preparing to launch a new extended-life, multifunctional amino alcohol fo ...

DALLAS – Martin Webster began his 2015-2016 term as president of the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers at its annual meeting and ...

U.S. demand for waxes will grow 1.8 percent per year by value, to $3.2 billion in 2019, supported by continued growth in manufacturing and residential ...

MOSCOW – Russias automotive lubricant market is expected to grow around 12 percent by 2020, driven by increased passenger car sales that should ...

China is one of the worlds largest base oil importers, but it has a surplus of naphthenic base stocks and is heading toward an even larger excess in c ...

SK Innovation announced last week that it was considering selling a stake in SK Lubricants, but then the parent company said Monday that it decided ag ...

Koda Distribution Group recently acquired the assets of metalworking and industrial fluids distributor Colonial Specialty Chemicals and plans to merge ...

MOSCOW – Russian production of base oils and lubricants is poised to stagnate to around 2.1 million tons in the next few years as the economies ...

Thanks to a slowdown in the nations economic growth, lubricant demand in China was flat in 2014 at 7.6 million metric tons, an official from Sinopec L ...

Chevron has sold its New Zealand Caltex gasoline service-station network and lubricants interests to Z Energy, the company born out of Shell's NZ fuel ...

The Vietnamese lubricant markets potential for growth makes the country promising for suppliers, according to a recent report from the Korea Internati ...

Gaoke Prepares for IPO

June 9, 2015

Chinese lubricant blender Jiangsu Gaoke Petrochemical is preparing for an initial public stock offering on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.

Rebounded Indian auto sales helped Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd. post a 13.6 percent improvement in profits, while China Rerun Chemical reported a 50 ...

Off-the-shelf samples of SAE 0W-20 and 5W-30 engine oils in Asia have been found to generate higher levels of phosphorus emissions than their counterp ...

Best Practices

May 27, 2015

Sara Lefcourt advises that every good decision starts by framing the right question in the right way.

Financial analysts are speculating that BP may be ripe for takeover. What could happen if new owners took a wrong turn with its valuable Castrol brand ...