With the Atlantic hurricane season blowing in soon and Harvey still a fresh memory, several lube industry players share how they plan for the worst.

JXTG Holdings Inc., said it resumed full production at its Wakayama refinery's API Group I base oil plant last month and began exporting product, a co ...

DIC Corp. began expanding its capacity to produce extreme pressure additives for metalworking fluids at its plant in Kashima, Japan. The company did n ...

Jiangsu Huifeng Lubricant Co. reported a minor decline in profit in 2017, and PetroChinas Kunlun Lubricants earnings soared by over 200 percent. Both ...

Royal Dutch Shell expects that annual earnings after tax for its global commercial business - most of which is accounted for by lubricants - will grow ...

Fuchs Petrolub plans to start operation of its 36 million (U.S. $44.3 million) lubricants blending plant in Wujiang, a Suzhou district in Chinas Jiang ...

Following a restructuring that increased its lube blending capacity by 67 percent, Indonesias PT Federal Karyatama plans to expand in its domestic mar ...

Last year didnt turn out so badly for lube makers, but Fuchs sees a rising threat from digitalization companies trying to drive a wedge between produc ...

National Refinery Ltd. plans to boost the production capacity of its base oil plant in Pakistan and has contracted a Chinese company to do the work.

Lukoil says a blending plant that it is building in Kazakhstan will still open on time early next year, despite a legal dispute between the oil compan ...

A plant in Nizhnekamsk restarted its polyalphaolefin production after an eight-year hiatus that was due to lack of feedstock supply and sanctions impo ...

Japans Moresco Corp. started construction of a lubricant blending plant in India this month, and completion is expected early next year, a company spo ...

Pack Logix Inc. announced Monday that it acquired the Spectrum Lubricants Corp. packaging plant in Waukesha, Wisconsin, from Phillips 66. Financial te ...

Shell, the worlds leading lubricant marketer, has seen its business in Russia grow slower than intended, but it still considers the country a strategi ...

Taiwanese state-owned petroleum company CPC Corp. began construction of an automotive lubricant blending plant in southern Vietnam this month after a ...

Ji Er Run Ke, a lube blender based in Changsha, Hunan province, plans to invest 180 million (U.S. $28.4 million) in a facility in neighboring city, Mi ...

Thailands PTT Lubricants has begun to enter Asian markets as part of a plan to expand overseas sales in areas such as Japan and India, a company spoke ...

Qingyuan Group, an independent Chinese refiner, is building a new unit in Shandong province designed to make base stocks that will be used as process ...

Gen III Oil Corp. intends to start construction this summer on a rerefinery that will make API Group II and III base oils at a leased site in Bowden, ...

Sara Lefcourt advises on ways to prepare for the business risks 2018 could bring.