Japans Idemitsu Kosan Co. and Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K. merged on Monday, becoming the second-largest lubricant supplier in Japan.

Hong Kongs Securities and Futures Commission fined UBS, Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch this month for inadequate due diligence in the 2014 initial p ...

At a trade show in Beijing, China, for automotive aftermarket products, lubricant companies and industry analysts discussed how to survive declining o ...

Indian grease manufacturers, like their counterparts in other countries, have for the past couple years bemoaned sharp increases in the costs of lithi ...

Recycling and sustainability are buzzwords often heard in the West. Now theyre being discussed in Central Asia as waste oil processing takes off.

Electric vehicle battery makers domination of global lithium supplies leaves Indian grease makers vulnerable to shortages. One Hungarian grease manufa ...

In a country where effective marketing techniques are already significantly different from those in the West, Chinas lubricants market is poised for e ...

The Japanese Automotive Standards Organization is preparing for adoption next month of a new specification for ultra-low-viscosity 0W-12 and 0W-8 pass ...

Together with the United States, China will shape the passenger car motor oil market through 2040, said George Morvey of consultancy Kline & Co., spea ...

Base oil imports to China were virtually flat at 2.81 million metric tons in 2018, according to data from the nations General Administration of Custom ...

Shandong province aims by 2020 to replace all local diesel vehicles that don't comply with emissions standards newer than China 3 - which was adopted ...

Tariffs imposed on lubricants and lubricant additives traded between the United States and China have made an obvious impact on the markets in both co ...

Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd and Continental Petroleum both reported healthy increases in profit for their third quarters, the former thanks to a jum ...

South Koreas four major base oil refiners - SK Lubricants, S-Oil, GS Caltex and Hyundai Shell Base Oil - each reported a deep cut in operating profit ...

Cosmo Oil and Spanish refiner Cepsa are discussing ways of aligning lubricant businesses and may use each other's blending plants to do so.

Hill Corp. recently finished building a used oil rerefinery and a small grease unit at its lubricant blending plant in Shymkent, in southern Kazakhsta ...

Chinese lubricant associations and refiners are testing a price index for API Group II base oils, a first step toward what is intended to be a broader ...

Feiya Chemical Co. has opened a factory in Chinas Jiangsu province to produce lubricant antioxidants on behalf of BASF. The plant was built under a te ...

South Korea's new Act on Safety Control of Consumer Chemical Products and Biocides regulation took effect Jan. 1. Industry sources disagree about whet ...

Chinas automaker association forecasted flat vehicle sales for 2019, an outcome that would be expected to hamper motor oil sales.