A crackdown by regulators in China has forced the closing - at least temporarily - of a number of base oil plants. Most are small and low-tech, but ob ...

The Pakistan Standards & Quality Control Authority, the countrys national standards enforcer, recently seized a unit of Golden Lubricants for producti ...

Chinas popular online-to-offline sales model seems to hold great opportunities for lube suppliers, but insiders aired some concerns about the method a ...

Small- and medium-size lubricant blenders navigate the pitfalls of tightening regulations, rising labor costs and increased technological demands in A ...

Like in many other industries, counterfeiting has also grown into a big problem in the lube market. Some companies enlist technology in the never-endi ...

Grease manufacturer Standard Greases & Specialities Pvt. plans to boost its stake in Andrew Yule Group-managed Tide Water Oil Co. by buying more share ...

Nature abhors a vacuum, and so do South Koreas base oil producers. Seeing a gaping hole appear in the U.S. market in first-half 2017, they moved fast ...

Chinas central government is working to set deadlines to prohibit the sale of cars and vans that run on fossil fuels, an official told an automobile f ...

Pakistans Hi-Tech Lubricants Ltd. reported a 44 percent jump in its annual net profit, as sales and other income surged. A decline in expenses also po ...

Qingdao Copton Technology Co., a Qingdao, Shandong province-based blender, increased net profit by 28 percent and revenue by nearly 24 percent in the ...

State-owned Chinese chemical company Sinochem will sell lubes as early as the end of 2017, said Li Junfeng, deputy general manager at Sinochem Lantian ...

Castrol India Ltd. said Indias transition to the Goods and Services Tax system was a major reason for its 33 percent drop in profit during its second ...

Panama Petrochem Ltd. bucked the trend of Indian lube suppliers recording shaky first quarters this year, reporting a 56 percent increase in earnings. ...

Panjin Northern Asphalt Co., a Chinese government enterprise that makes petroleum asphalt and naphthenic and API Group II base oils, is pushing its wa ...

Tianhe Chemicals Group reported Friday that it has finished building a plant that would upgrade base oils to API Group II and III base oil but that it ...

Indonesias national oil company, PT Pertamina Lubricants, signed an agreement recently to explore the possibilities of establishing a grease company w ...

Gulf Oil International (Mauritius) Inc. has acquired an additional stake in Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd., bringing its total share to 71.48 percent. ...

Indian lubricant suppliers saw first-quarter profits fall by between 30 and 55 percent from the same period last year. Most cited the transition to th ...

A fire at an Atma Lubricants & Specialities Ltd. manufacturing unit in southern Indias Andhra Pradesh state last Wednesday was quickly contained. It c ...

Indias Savita Oil Technologies Ltd., a supplier of transformer oils, white oils, lubricants and other products, reported that first quarter net profit ...