The rerefining industry faces an uphill battle in developing markets, according to a report from consultancy Kline & Co. Regulations around used ...

Profits were up for Valvoline, South Korean base oil refiners SK Lubricants and S-Oil, and BPs lubricants business for the quarter ending in June, com ...

Russian passenger car and light commercial vehicle sales are expected to plunge 16 percent to about 1.35 million units in 2016, the countrys automobil ...

Chinese blender Qingdao Copton Technology Co. posted a 10 percent gain in its first quarter compared to a year earlier. Koreas SK Lubricants has more ...

China and India are the second- and third-largest lubricant markets, but they handle their used oil differently, according to a report from Kline & Co ...

SEPTEMBER 6-9. Leeds Lyon Symposium on Tribology Leeds Trinity University, Leeds, U.K. leeds-lyon@leeds.ac.uk www.engineering-leeds.ac.uk/ short-courc ...

American Refining Group committed to a 33.3 percent equity investment in Novvi LLC – a joint venture of Amyris and Cosan – and, through it ...

Gazprom Neft acquired Rospolychem Group, a Russian manufacturer of specialty oils such as aviation lubricants and rolling oils whose customers include ...

Japan will have excess supply of API Group I base stocks because demand is shifting to Group II and Group III to meet specifications for fuel-efficien ...

WD-40 posted net income of $12.7 million for the quarter ending May 31, up 16 percent from a year earlier, with net sales up 4 percent at $96.4 millio ...

Industrial lubricant giant Houghton International acquired metalworking fluids manufacturer Wallover Oil for an undisclosed amount, part of an aggress ...

MOSCOW – Russias consumption of engine oils for on-road vehicles stagnated in 2015, but vehicle usage rates are rising as is the proportion of o ...

While the average age of light vehicles in the United States rose 15 percent from 9.9 years in 2007 to 11.4 years in 2014, that trend is expected to s ...

Booming globalization has the worldwide marine lubes market growing at a rate of more than 4 percent per year in the next four years, and Asia - the l ...

Compared to much of Asia-Pacific, Australia has a large lubricant market with high quality products and high profit margins, so its no surprise that s ...

Indias largest transformer oils manufacturer, Apar Industries, expects that implementation of power policy reforms will significantly boost energy con ...

GTS Chemicals lubes division recorded significant gains in both profit and revenue in 2015, thanks to a new blending plant, an expanded domestic distr ...

Founding members of major Japanese oil company Idemitsu Kosan Co. expressed opposition to the companys merger with Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K., during Ide ...

More than half of all grease produced during 2015 was made in the Asia-Pacific region, according to the National Lubricating Grease Institutes Grease ...

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