Japans Idemitsu Kosan Co. and Kuwait Petroleum International Ltd. plan to set up a joint venture to distribute petroleum products, including lubricant ...

BASF announced the start-up last week of a new specialty amines plant in Nanjing, China. The facility will make dimethylaminopropylamines primarily fo ...

Suppliers of metal alloys and metal removal fluids are waiting to see if the European Parliament will tighten limits on the use of lead in steel, alum ...

Gazpromneft-Lubricants combined sales of base oils and lubricants rose by 11 percent to 528,000 tons in 2015, driven by increased domestic and foreign ...

Lubricant demand in the United States is projected to increase 0.3 percent annually to 2.4 billion gallons by 2020, according to a new study by Freedo ...

Indias Tide Water Oil agreed last week to a 9.59 million (U.S. $13.8 million) acquisition of Price Thomas Holdings Ltd., which owns United Kingdom-bas ...

Clariant recently started up additional capacity for phosphate esters at its chemicals manufacturing site in Gendorf, Germany. Phosphate esters are co ...

Russias largest base oil refiner, Lukoil, produced around 860,000 metric tons of base oils in 2015, down 10 percent from 973,000 tons the year before. ...

Calumet Specialty Products Partners L.P. on Friday said it suspended its quarterly cash distribution, citing volatility in market conditions and sayin ...

Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd.s plan to build a blending plant at Chennai, India, is moving ahead once again and is on track to open by late 2017, com ...

ExxonMobil announced last week the completion of an expansion at its lubricants blending facility in Taicang, China, a response to long-term growth th ...

Indias lubricant market attracts much attention because of trends for size and quality. But several of its neighbors - Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal ...

Fuchs Petrolub AG has announced it is expanding two production facilities in Australia, bucking the trend of rival lube and grease makers to move offs ...

Small and medium-sized private Chinese lubricants manufacturers formed an association in Beijing last month to endorse and boost the quality of domest ...

Demand for synthetic base stocks in India is growing, but the markets price consciousness means that most of the volume increases in coming years will ...

Malaysias state-owned Petronas Lubricants International plans to increase its presence in Chinas industrial diesel engine oil market after raising its ...

Indias lubricant market may be lagging developed markets in terms of the quality of finished products and the base stocks that it uses, but it has beg ...

The undeclared war between Russia and Turkey has severely curtailed base oil exports via the Black Sea. This toxic combination of bad politics, poor d ...

Nigeria, the third largest lubricant market in Africa, faces many challenges in its oil and gas industry. One of the biggest is what blenders describe ...

Croda International Plc plans to build a new production facility at its Chocques manufacturing site in northern France to increase capacity at the sit ...