Expansions & Upgrades

ExxonMobil began producing Mobil 1 synthetic engine oils in Asia for the first time upon the opening of its greases and lubricants facilities in Singa ...

Sasol Ltd. broke ground last week on an expansion of its alkoxylation plant in Chinas Jiangsu province that it will use in part to manufacture surfact ...

Sanyo Chemical Industries Ltd. is investing 900 million (U.S. $8 million) to expand one of its two additive plants in Japan by October, a spokesman to ...

Two of Japans top metalworking fluid providers said recently that with domestic automobile production and die-casting industries stagnant, their growt ...

Russian lubricants supplier Obninskorgsintez is set to expand its business in India this year, the company told Lube Report Asia last week.

Petronas' domestic marketing arm increased revenue in 2016, while Gaoke's declined marginally. Hi-Tech Lubricant's third quarter profit rocketed.

United Kingdom-based Morris Lubricants has expanded its operations in India by establishing a subsidiary in Mumbai and signing a local distribution pa ...

Fuchs Lubricants (Australasia) Ptys new blending plant near Newcastle on Australias east coast will help it shut its dated facility nearby, triple its ...

With Southeast Asian countries attempting to open their doors more to regional trade, many lubricant suppliers are keen to expand into neighboring cou ...

In the year since its January 2016 initial public offering, Pakistans Hi-Tech Lubricants Ltd. has invested around 1.2 billion rupees (U.S. $11.4 milli ...

ExxonMobil will expand its API Group II base oil plant in Singapore, which is already the largest Group II source in Asia-Pacific and one of the large ...

Singaporean lubricant supplier United Oil Co. will not set up a blending plant in Myanmar as the company discussed last year. Instead, it will supply ...

Lube additive producer Infineum International Ltd. has expanded its operations in Asia with a new subsidiary in India, the worlds third-largest lubric ...

South Korean refiner GS Caltex will invest around U.S. $30 million to build a 210,000 metric tons per year lubricants blending facility in Tianjin, Ch ...

Hainan Handi Sunshine Petrochemical Co. signed a deal with the Bank of China and Yangpu, Hainan province government agencies last week to advance its ...

Cleanaway, one of two rerefiners of base oil in Australia, has received state government approval to upgrade its Hunter Valley plant in order to produ ...

Lanka IOC Eyes Indonesia

September 27, 2016

Lanka IOC is moving closer to entering the Indonesian lubricant market. After exploring opportunities on the sprawling archipelago for the past year, ...

Chinese additive manufacturer Tianhe Chemicals began supplying to the Japanese market and will start production at its new plant in Singapore through ...

Acorn Oil and Linxian Petrochemical opened a joint venture lubricant blending plant in Tianjin, China, last month. The facility focuses on providing t ...

Sinopec is nearing the completion of an expansion at its lubricant blending plant in Chongqing, China. The project, which will bring the plants capaci ...