Expansions & Upgrades

Hi-Tech Lubricants Ltd., a Pakistani supplier of SK Lubricants Zic brand, is set to expand its share of the domestic market with a new blending plant ...

Dutch additive supplier BRB International is partnering with a Singapore engineering firm to build a viscosity index improver factory that will open n ...

GTS Expands Blend Plant

September 1, 2015

GTS Chemical this month completed an expansion of its blending plant in Shandong province, China, intended to assist the growth of its fledgling lubri ...

Lanka IOC said it expects to increase its share of the Sri Lanka engine oil market from 17 percent to 23 percent by building more fuel stations. The i ...

Sinopec is considering closing its API Group I base oil plant in Yanshan, China, early next year due to difficulties obtaining feedstock.

Afton Chemical Corp. announced last week that it will expand its new lubricant additives plant in Singapore, increasing its investment there to about ...

Daelim Industrial agreed to license technology for the manufacturing of polyisobutylene to Lubrizol Corp., which plans to expand its main PIB and disp ...

Indias Tide Water Oil Co. is gearing up to enter South African and Sudanese markets, license sales of its products in Bangladesh, and to relaunch its ...

Malaysias Emery Oleochemicals plans to expand its biolubricant business globally with partnerships, acquisitions and expansion of existing sites in Ma ...

Hainan Handi Sunshine Petrochemical Ltd. is moving forward again with a previously stalled plan to build another base oil plant at the site of its exi ...

The global base oil market is mired in a surplus that grows larger with every expansion and new plant opening. So when Hrnd decided to expand its East ...

Total announced the opening Friday of a 310,000 metric ton per year blending plant in Singapore - the French energy giants largest lubricant productio ...

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

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 ...

Malaysia's Petronas Lubricants Marketing Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Petronas Dagangan, plans to expand in East Malaysia as part of a strategy to become ...

Indonesias PT Pertamina Lubricants will expand and upgrade its lubricant blending plant in Jakarta by the end of this year, the company said during th ...

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

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.

Malaysias Petronas Lubricants International began the second phase of expansion on its lubricant blending plant in the Weifang Economic Development Zo ...

SK Files For IPO

May 19, 2015

SK Lubricants filed documents last week seeking eligibility to conduct an initial public stock offering.