SK Enmove’s base oils and lubricants business and S-Oils base oils and lubricants business both achieved slightly higher profits for the quarter end ...

The Eurasian Economic Union of former Soviet republics updated its technical regulation for lubricants, oils and special fluids, the organization’s ...

Price uncertainties and a hazy lubricant demand outlook were keeping base oil consumers from acquiring large cargoes, as many blenders preferred to ru ...

Tsuno Group, a Japanese chemical company, announced the launch of fatty acid esters made from used cooking oil. The lubricant industry’s use of est ...

Chinese lubricant blender Shengbaolu Petrochemical Co., known as Sarlboro, recently completed construction of and commissioned its second blending pla ...

Japanese specialty lubricant maker Moresco Corp. reported increased sales for its specialty lubricants, boosted by increased automobile production in ...

Russia imported 227,000 passenger cars in the first half of 2023 – more than tripling the amount in the same period last year – and around 75% cam ...

Base oil buyers were reassessing their purchase strategies in view of diverging market conditions. On the one hand, weaker demand and increasing suppl ...

South Korea exported 5% less base oil than in the same month of last year, and the reported value of those exports dropped 24%, a government agency re ...

With a price index for API Group II 150 neutral base oils under its belt, the Shanghai Lubricant Trade Association is now in discussion with China Nat ...

Shell said last month that it will sell its controlling stake in Shell Pakistan Ltd., divesting a lubricants business that is among the country’s bi ...

Slowing demand and the resumption of output at a number of base oil facilities led to mounting supplies in Asia, with spot prices exposed to downward ...

Chinese lubricant marketer Lopal Tech Co. reported a 9% increase in first quarter sales revenue for its lubes segment despite a 6% decrease in sales v ...

In step with central government goals for a wide range of sectors, China’s lubricant industry is in a hurry to develop domestic replacements for imp ...

The march of China companies stepping into the polyalphaolefin business continues, as acrylic acid producer Satellite Chemical recently disclosed plan ...

The Japanese Society of Automotive Engineers has updated its JASO T 903 performance specification for four-stroke motorcycle engine oils, incorporatin ...

China’s Richful Lube Additives Co. reported an 88% jump in net profit for and a 58% rise in sales revenue for the first quarter, compared to the sam ...

More moderate activity in key base oil consumer markets such as China and India continued to place downward pressure on spot prices in Asia. Regional ...

Georgia imported almost 8,930 tons of finished lubricants from January through May, up 9% from the same period last year, the country’s Association ...

Although China is on track to double its wind and solar capacity by 2025 – five years ahead of its government’s target year – the current pace a ...