A free-trade zone scheduled to be created in Southeast Asia next year will probably boost lubricant demand in the region, industry analysts say. It co ...

Sichuan province-based Zhonghai Jinxiang Co. plans to build a facility that will make base oils for industrial lubricants using feedstock from an exis ...

Total announced that it will build a grease plant at its lubricant factory in Tianjin, China. The new plant will have capacity to make 5,000 metric to ...

FAJARDO, Puerto Rico-With feedstock costs rising and demand for used oil-derived products sinking, the used oil market is upside down, said recycling ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a Significant New Rule under the Toxic Substances Control Act for alkanes C12-13, chloro, a short-chai ...

SAN DIEGO — Last week, the New Category Development Team took up the ticklish issue of how to label the coming diesel engine oil upgrade for con ...

Allegheny Petroleum Products last week opened a blending plant in Houston that will initially produce fuel additives and soon industrial lubricants. B ...

Lubricant demand in South Korea is forecast to increase 1.2 percent in 2015, the Korea Lubricating Oil Industries Association said in its annual repor ...

Boris Kamchev reviews the outlook for Russias lubricants market.

Emerging markets account for the majority of commercial vehicle demand today with about one-half of all trucks now operating in undeveloped countries. ...

Driven by the growing need for environmentally friendly tires and other rubber products, Russian process oils manufacturer Orgkhim plans to expand its ...

A New Jersey government agency issued a statewide ban Thursday on 19 motor oils, saying a state-contracted lab found each failed to conform to the vis ...

Malaysias Petronas Lubricants International introduced the industrys first 0W-20 heavy-duty diesel engine oil in Italy last week after co-developing i ...

Asia is a very minor market for the finished products, with demand that pales compared to Europe and the Americas. However, biolubricant suppliers say ...

Chevron Lubricants Lanka PLC inaugurated a 45 million liter blending plant and warehouse complex in Sapugaskanda, Sri Lanka, last week.

Asian shipping companies account for just over half of global demand for marine lubricants, an industry insider said during a conference in Amsterdam ...

Drain intervals are rising and engine oil sales are falling. Roberto Rangel suggests using mathematical tools to uncover the hidden factors and niche ...

Latin American end users are eagerly buying gas-fueled reciprocating engines to get the electricity they crave. And that stokes an ongoing appetite fo ...

Many metal removal fluids are diluted with purified water to form long-life emulsions. But is the price of purity more breakage of drills, reamers and ...

Japanese petroleum heavyweight JX Nippon Oil & Energy plans to set up a wholly-owned lube oil sales company in Mexico by January 2015 to serve gr ...