Tianjin-based lubricant manufacturer Beiersdorf Petroleum and Chemical Corp. is building a second blending facility on the opposite side of the countr ...

The market for high quality base oils and synthetics in India will expand going forward as automakers strive to meet stringent environmental legislati ...

ExxonMobil has agreed to purchase Indonesian lubricant blender PT Federal Karyatama, the companies announced this week, part of a plan to expand in th ...

SK Lubricants said last week that it was tabling a planned initial public offering for the third time after once again failing to achieve a desired va ...

Valvoline Inc. announced plans Wednesday to invest 443 million (U.S. $70 million) to build its first lubricants plant in China to meet growing demand ...

As new base oil production hubs emerge, the industrys supply base is diversifying, disrupting established trade flows and intensifying competition amo ...

Japans base oil export volumes plunged 24 percent last year as production and domestic sales fell and imports continued to increase, according to init ...

Chinese additives manufacturer Jinzhou Kangtai published an updated prospectus in March, hoping to gain approval from Chinas securities regulatory com ...

JXTG Holdings Inc., said it resumed full production at its Wakayama refinery's API Group I base oil plant last month and began exporting product, a co ...

DIC Corp. began expanding its capacity to produce extreme pressure additives for metalworking fluids at its plant in Kashima, Japan. The company did n ...

Capacity increases may see China producing nearly 40 percent of the worlds naphthenic base oils within the next two years and potentially leapfrogging ...

Tianhe Chemicals Group reported yesterday that the gross profit for its lubricant additives segment decreased 7.2 percent in 2017 due to a drop in sal ...

With Chinas passenger car parc set to continue revving through the next five years, experts at an industry event last month said that diversified rout ...

Indias state-run oil marketing companies plan to set up used lubricating oil centers across the country with an aim of making collection efficient in ...

Fuchs Petrolub plans to start operation of its 36 million (U.S. $44.3 million) lubricants blending plant in Wujiang, a Suzhou district in Chinas Jiang ...

India is rerefining far less used lubricants than it could because of logistical challenges and apprehensions about the quality of recycled base oil, ...

National Refinery Ltd. plans to boost the production capacity of its base oil plant in Pakistan and has contracted a Chinese company to do the work.

The global lubricants industry is passing through a phase of little to no growth, but India remains a bright spot due to its steadily growing demand t ...

India is poised for exciting times ahead as the lure of mergers and acquisitions attracts domestic and foreign lubricant companies to forge new relati ...

Chinas base oil consumption will grow marginally but steadily in the next five years, according to a speaker from ICIS at the organizations World Base ...