Asia

Hong Kong’s securities regulator filed a complaint Wednesday accusing Tianhe Chemicals Group and its executive director of greatly overstating the c ...

For the quarter ending June 30, India’s GP Petroleums and Apar Industries posted net losses, Castrol India and Savita Oil posted steep drops in prof ...

The rapid emergence of electric vehicles in China highlights the need for standards for lubricants and other chemicals for EV motors, members of a lub ...

Idemitsu Kosan announced that it is cooperating with two Japanese universities on a grant project to develop wind turbine lubricants that would provid ...

Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd. and Japanese specialty chemical producer KH Neochem Co.’s performance materials segment both reported steep declines ...

Lub-rref IPO Clears Hurdle

August 28, 2020

The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission last week approved the method by which Lub-rref will conduct its initial public offering, clearing t ...

Idemitsu Kosan Co. opened its second wholly owned lubricant blending plant in China last week, a facility in the southern coastal city of Huizhou with ...

South Korean conglomerate SK Innovation announced last week that it hired Citigroup Global Markets to help it explore the possibility of selling subsi ...

Base Oil refiners GS Caltex and Hyundai Shell Base Oil both posted increases in operating profit and drops in sales for the first quarter, compared to ...

Japan’s lubricant market remains soft as domestic vehicle sales continue to slow down, according to data released recently by the Ministry of Econom ...

China started to implement 6a, the first phase of the China 6 emission standards, on July 1 for light-duty vehicles nationwide. Lube suppliers are for ...

A city on South Korea’s Jeju Island says a project that recovers waste lubricants generated by fishing vessels is helping to protect the local marin ...

Idemitsu Kosan Co. announced Thursday that it has reached an agreement to sell Shell Lubricants Japan back to Shell, 16 months after the businesses me ...

Yushiro Chemical Earnings

August 7, 2020

Metalworking fluids and industrial oil producer Yushiro Chemical Industry reported lower sales and a steep decrease in operating income for the quarte ...

China’s Ministry of Commerce announced recently that it will impose punitive tariffs on n-propanol imported by American companies after finding that ...

ExxonMobil has decided to build its first lubricant blending plant in India, a Rs 760 crore facility in Maharashtra, according to the chief minister o ...

Mumbai-based Savita Oil – a supplier of transformer oils, white oils, lubricants and other products – reported lower net profit and total income f ...

India’s GP Petroleums Ltd. and MJL Bangladesh Ltd. each reported a drop in net profit for the quarter ending March 31.

Apar Industries reported a steep drop in net profit for the quarter ending March 31, while Maximus International and Continental Petroleums posted hig ...

Reported lubricating grease production was up in China and Southeast Asia, and down in India and Japan, according to a survey by the United States-bas ...