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Xinxiang Richful Lube Additive Co., a Chinese additives supplier, plans to focus more on emerging markets because of the U.S. governments recent decis ...

As the quality of lubricants in China continues to rise, competition among suppliers - especially of industrial lubes - is intensifying and pushing co ...

Master Fluid Solutions has invested in a new metalworking fluids blending plant in Taicang, China, the company announced on Wednesday. The new facilit ...

The coal-to-liquids base oil operations that Shanxi Luan Group is opening in Changzhi, China, this year includes a plant with capacity to make 3,000 m ...

A group of major Chinese vehicle makers and energy giants are working on the nations first lubricant specification for diesel truck engines.

China Shenhua and Shanghai Naco Synthetics last week commemorated the opening of a joint venture research center designed to develop coal-to-liquids a ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Tianhe Earnings Dipped

March 30, 2018

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ji Er Run Ke, a lube blender based in Changsha, Hunan province, plans to invest 180 million (U.S. $28.4 million) in a facility in neighboring city, Mi ...

China will introduce new national standards for industrial white oils as soon as the middle of this year, according to a Sinopec representative at a r ...

China produces quite a bit of white oils, but niche applications such as rubber seals require high-quality plasticizers formulated with hydrocracked w ...

A private chemical company in Zhanjiang, Guangdong province, will soon start to produce automotive lubricants using recycled waste oils.

BASF and Sinopec plan to double capacity of neopentyl glycol, a component of polyester resins for synthetic lubricants, at their joint venture facilit ...

Sinopec plans to boost its white oils production capacity at two new units in Jingmen, China, said Lin Yunxiang, a division chief at Sinopec Jingmen P ...