Laugfs Lubricants Ltd. will launch a 17,000 metric tons per year blending plant near Colombo, Sri Lanka, in July.

Global palm oil production is booming, but the basic oleochemicals market is saturated, according to Frost & Sullivan.

A German testing company found that oil change intervals in China are shorter than in other markets and significantly shorter than they need to be.

Shell opened a new blending plant Tianjin, China, Thursday, the latest in a series of investments by the company in the nations large and growing lubr ...

Lukoil produced 973,000 metric tons of base oils last year, down about 7 percent from 1.05 million tons in 2013, while its finished lubricant producti ...

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 ...

Few Chinese lubricant companies sell products overseas, but Shandong Yuangen Petroleum Chemical Co. is doing just that through a toll-blending agreeme ...

Prista Oil, the largest independent lubricant manufacturer in Eastern Europe, has created Verila Lubricants AD to produce greases for a broad clientel ...

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

Gulf Oil International Ltd. said it is tying up with Q8Oils to supply finished lubricants in Europe. The companies did not disclose the exact nature o ...

BMW Malaysia Sdn. asked the Malaysian government to reconsider its plans to implement its B10 biodiesel mandate in October this year, concerned that ...

The new Mysore, India, production site of Chem-Trend and Kluber Lubrication India - business units of Freudenberg Group - is scheduled to open in Augu ...

Lubricating Specialties Co. has opened a lubricants blending facility in Jamaica to support customers in the Caribbean and Latin America. One customer ...

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

Emirates National Oil Co. has increased its lubricants and grease blending capacity to 300,000 metric tons per year with the opening of a second facil ...

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 ...

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

Russian oil major Gazpromneft-Lubricants increased its national sales of motor oils by 24 percent in the first quarter, compared to the year-earlier p ...

Quick oil change operator Lube Stop announced Monday the acquisition of The Grease Spot, another oil change chain with 13 locations in Illinois and Io ...