China

Chinas lubricant market, which grew more than any other in the world for a decade, is forecast to shrink by an average of 0.4 percent annually over th ...

China produced a record 28 million automobiles in 2016, according to official data released last month. The number of units sold hit 28 million as wel ...

Chinas Changing Energy Needs

January 31, 2017

Chinas energy mix is projected to change out to 2035, with coal consumption declining though still remaining dominant as nuclear and renewables make i ...

Many Chinese lubricant suppliers struggle to find footing in the countrys increasingly overcrowded market. One Xian-based blender said it has found su ...

South Korean refiner GS Caltex will invest around U.S. $30 million to build a 210,000 metric tons per year lubricants blending facility in Tianjin, Ch ...

In August, GTS Group, a Liaocheng, Shandong province-based chemical producer and the owner of the lube brand Ogistar, delisted itself from the London ...

Chinas economy may have slowed, but its passenger car population is growing as fast as ever - good news for lubricant suppliers in a market that has s ...

Having resolved internal control concerns raised by its auditors recently concluded review, Tianhe Chemicals Group said it is ready to resume trading ...

After opening its first overseas facility in Vietnam in October to supply clients in Southeast Asia, Dongguan-based metalworking fluids maker Amer wil ...

A local lubricant and grease association was recently founded in Tianjin, China, a city near Beijing that has attracted a growing number of blenders.

Many Chinese lubricant suppliers spend considerable time trying to figure out how to develop a successful brand in the country's highly homogeneous ma ...

Jin Xue Chi, an Urumqi-based lubricant producer, recently opened a 200 million (U.S. $28.7 million) blending facility in Maanshan city, Anhui province ...

Global energy demand will climb 25 percent by 2040, with the Asia-Pacific region leading the charge and China and India collectively accounting for ne ...

CNOOC Opens Base Oil Plant

December 20, 2016

China National Offshore Oil Corp. has begun making base stocks at its fuels and petrochemical refinery in Taizhou, China. The new plant has capacity t ...

American lube additives maker Chevron Oronite selected United States-based Fluor Corp. to complete the front-end engineering and design of its manufac ...

A year after Chinese refiner Hainan Handi Sunshine Petrochemical Co. launched a finished lubricant marketing firm, Handi Lubricant Technology, the sub ...

French oil giant Total Lubricants opened a grease production plant in Tianjin, China, Friday - its first in the Asia-Pacific region.

Tongyi Lubricants CEO Li Jia had a fruitful journey to the United States recently. The trip saw Tongyi gain rights for domestic sales of an American b ...

Asia-Pacific demands more white oils than any other region, according to an industry consultancy, due to China being the world's largest consumer of t ...

Chinese blender Qingdao Copton Technology Co. increased earnings by 31 percent on the year in its third quarter and sold one of its subsidiaries, a wh ...