A year after Chinese refiner Hainan Handi Sunshine Petrochemical Co. launched a finished lubricant marketing firm, Handi Lubricant Technology, the sub ...

Vietnams PV Oil Lube will double its production capacity in Ho Chi Minh City by upgrading its plant there and integrating relocated blending equipment ...

Nikkei Asian Review reported Wednesday that Idemitsu Kosan Co. and Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K. can and likely will begin to cooperate even if Idemitsus bo ...

Netherlands-based VPS Lubricants will start blending lubricants in Rwanda in the first quarter of 2017. Erik Vermeer, commercial director for VPS Inte ...

Licensing began last week for the latest engine oil specifications from Europes auto industry – a long-awaited update that significantly raises ...

Gulf Solvents of Saudi Arabia contracted Chemical Engineering Partners to build a 155,000 metric tons per year rerefinery in Hail City to produce API ...

French oil giant Total Lubricants opened a grease production plant in Tianjin, China, Friday - its first in the Asia-Pacific region.

Tongyi Lubricants CEO Li Jia had a fruitful journey to the United States recently. The trip saw Tongyi gain rights for domestic sales of an American b ...

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 ...

Asia-Pacific demands more white oils than any other region, according to an industry consultancy, due to China being the world's largest consumer of t ...

MOSCOW – Russias passenger car and light commercial vehicle parc could increase from 45 million units in 2015 to around 50 million in 2020, ridi ...

The Union of the European Lubricant Industry recently helped defeat a proposal to bring bulk lubricants under the European Unions Excise Movement and ...

Chinese blender Qingdao Copton Technology Co. increased earnings by 31 percent on the year in its third quarter and sold one of its subsidiaries, a wh ...

South Koreas lubricant consumption increased marginally in 2016 but is not likely to show any growth in 2017, the Korea Lubricating Oil Industry Assoc ...

Lubricants maker Tide Water Oil Co. (India) Ltd. reported a nearly 16 percent drop in its second-quarter net profit, due in part to a rise in total ex ...

More Chinese blenders are registering their lubricants under NSF Internationals program for food-grade compounds. The latest to do so, Beijia Lubricat ...

Despite economic slowdown and political uncertainty that has hindered key countries in the region, demand for finished lubricants in Latin America and ...

Oil major Mol plans to upgrade and/or expand its base oil plant in Szazhalombatta, Hungary, as part of a five-year capital investment program but said ...

What do sales and marketing managers at U.S. lubricant companies earn? According to an exclusive survey conducted recently by LubesnGreases magazine, ...

BERLIN – Rerefiners have asked the European Union to adopt volume targets in each member state for used oil collection and rerefined base oil pr ...