Asia

Bohui Chemical, a fuel supplier based in Chinas Zhejiang province, will start to produce API Group II base oil in November, a company official said Se ...

Asian Markets Called Attractive

September 27, 2019

While Western businesses may wring their hands in frustration at the difficulties of doing business in Asia, at least one industry insider views high ...

Lukoil opened a blending plant in Kazakhstan last week, saying it will use the facility to optimize its supply in that country, to penetrate China mor ...

Asia-Pacifics energy demand is forecast to grow 33 percent from 2017 to 2040, with oil, natural gas and coal making up 85 percent of total energy cons ...

Hi-Tech Claims Found Misleading

September 20, 2019

The Competition Commission of Pakistan served notice last month of a finding that Hi-Tech Blending (Pvt) Ltd. used false and misleading statements in ...

The Indian market has undergone a large shift in recent years toward API Group II and III base stocks, and with the countrys upcoming transition towar ...

Chinas Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council yesterday announced a trial program to exclude 16 types of U.S. products - including grease and ...

Weifang Hongrun Petrochemical Technology Co. awarded a contract to Chevron Lummus Global for license and design of a 500,000 metric tons per year whit ...

At a recent industry forum in Xi’an, China, suppliers talked about promotions based on product quality not being an effective way of marketing their ...

U.S. distributors and manufacturers of wax and wax products are bracing for the impact of new tariffs on Chinese imports, which went into effect Sept. ...

Lube Industry Shifted to Asia

September 4, 2019

Global lubricant demand has been mostly flat during recent decades, but the geographic spread of that demand has shifted significantly, an industry an ...

Amid worries over pollution and climate change, India is trying to speed the uptake of electric vehicles, but penetration of those vehicles is still l ...

Lubricant demand volumes in Sri Lanka shrank 0.3 percent in 2018, while the sales value of those products rose 3.1 percent, according to a market repo ...

China is likely to churn out more lubricant brands before potential consolidation of the industry, even amid a lack of growth, said experts at an even ...

Chinese domestically produced BEVs are still selling well amidst falling conventional engine sales and cheaper alternative fuel models on the market. ...

WeChat has been an effective tool to boost sales in Chinas changing lubricants market - especially among younger customers - for one lube distributor ...

Balmer Lawrie reported a decrease in operating profit, Tide Water Oil posted a decline in standalone net profit and net profit was up for both Maximus ...

Japans lubricant demand for full-year 2019 is expected to fall by 1.4 percent to 1.4 million metric tons, according to a recent press release by the P ...

Japan's Adeka Corp. will complete an expansion of its lubricant additive plant this month, and seeks to expand sale of its engine oil additives to the ...

The Hong Kong Stock Exchange refused to say Wednesday whether it intends to boot Tianhe Chemicals from the exchange after the lubricant additive suppl ...