The Freedonia Group and Kline and Co. agree about the biggest factors that will affect automotive lubricant markets in the Americas in coming years, b ...

Kenya is a key lubricants market in the East Africa region, with total finished lubricants demand of 53,500 metric tons and more than 30 lubricant bra ...

The global lubricant industrys consumption of esters is faster than the overall industry. One market that can slake this almost unquenchable thirst is ...

Despite slumping car sales over the past two years, demand for vehicle motor oil in Russia is projected to slowly recover. Modest growth is down to in ...

Continental Petroleums, Hi-Tech Lubricants, Balmer Lawrie, Tide Water Oil and Castrol India each reported higher profits for the quarter ended Dec. 31 ...

Automotive lubes are breaking away from the regional economic downturn to run neck-and-neck with global trends.

Sasol completed an expansion of its Fischer-Tropsch wax plant in Sasolburg, South Africa, the company announced early last week. It was the second pha ...

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 ...

European Union demand for vehicles grew 3.4 percent in 2017, marking the fourth consecutive year of growth, the European Automotive Manufactures Assoc ...

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 ...

Chevron, Phillips 66, Total and Petro-Canada America Lubricants notified U.S. customers of upcoming finished lubricant price increases that go into ef ...

Both domestic and foreign additive companies are poised to take advantage of Asia-Pacifics expanding lube market.

Indian transformer oils and lubes manufacturer Apar Industries Ltd. formed a joint venture with a car dealer that aims to supply lubes to the governme ...

The deadline for registering chemicals under the EUs landmark REACH regulation is fast approaching. This cut-off is especially pertinent to the grease ...

New rail projects could offer modest opportunities for the lube business in East Africas rail sector. The downside could be reduced demand for heavy-d ...

Mark Townsend and Simon look at Irans Group I fortunes.

The economies of countries in Central and Eastern Europe have been relatively buoyant in recent years, making their small and fragmented lube markets ...

Russias Gazpromneft-Lubricants signed a lubricant toll blending agreement with Kuwait Petroleum Internationals Q8 Oil to increase its production volum ...

China will introduce new national standards for industrial white oils as soon as the middle of this year, according to a Sinopec representative at a r ...