Shell announced last week that it has completed an expansion of its grease manufacturing plant in Bangkok, tripling the facility’s production capaci ...

As China pushes to be a major player in global high-tech industries such as artificial intelligence, polyalphaolefin base stocks have more opportuniti ...

In a growing trade dispute, China’s government announced last week that it will suspend tariff concessions on imports of 134 categories of products ...

Chevron Oronite announced Wednesday its final investment decision to expand its lubricant additive facility in Ningbo, in China’s Zhejiang province, ...

United States-based D-A Lubricant Co. announced it will establish its brand in Asia through a new partnership with Chinese lubricant toll blender Shan ...

Major Chinese blenders believe investing in differentiation, efficiency and expansion is the only way to attract big clients, speakers said at a side ...

Saudi Aramco said this week that it may take a minority stake in a Chinese oil company – a deal that would give it an interest in yet another base o ...

China is close to approving D1, the nation’s first diesel engine oil performance specification, a speaker from China National Petroleum Corp. said a ...

ExxonMobil has reached an agreement for its base stocks to be distributed in South China by EMB, a joint venture that already performs similar functio ...

China has for years been the world’s largest importers of base oils and barely an exporter, but both of those numbers are now trending in the opposi ...

Singaporean lubricants blender AP Oil International Ltd. reported steep declines in net profit and sales revenue for 2023, citing impacts of higher in ...

Richful Lube Additives reported last week that its lubricant additives sales revenue decreased in 2023, while its overall net profit rose on lower sal ...

China National Offshore Oil & Gas signed an agreement last month to build a large blending plant in Taizhou, Jiangsu province, significantly incre ...

China’s plan to encourage manufacturers in key industries to replace old equipment could lead to more rerefined base oil production and finished lub ...

Yip’s Chemicals Holdings Ltd. reported that its lubricants business rebounded with an operating profit in 2023 – after an operating loss in 2022 � ...

China base oil imports fell 2% in 2023 – a slowdown in the country’s decreasing reliance on foreign oils. China has long been one of the world’s ...

Arteco formally opened a coolant factory in Nantong, China, this week, stating that the facility will make products for electric vehicles and data cen ...

Two big powerhouses, India and China, are the largest net base oil importers in the world, and an Argus Media analyst predicted recently that they wil ...

SI Group has entered a long-term agreement to have some of its chemical products manufactured by Dingjide Petrochemical Co. – a move allowing the Am ...

SKF opened a research and development and manufacturing site for lubrication management equipment in Taicang, China, last month. It is one of several ...