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Grease Touted for Robot Joints

Grease Touted for Robot Joints

May 14, 2021

Greases can offer advantages over gear oils in helping to prevent wear of precision reducers – known as RV reducers or ...

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China Truck Standard Now Due July 1

April 30, 2021

The Chinese government announced on April 25 that the parts of its China VI emission standard applying to heavy diesel v ...

Richful, Lopal Raised Profits in 2020

Richful, Lopal Raised Profits in 2020

April 16, 2021

China’s Jiangsu Lopal Tech. Co. and Richful Lube Additive Co. recorded increases in net profit and revenue last year a ...

China Forecast to Continue Group III Imports

China Forecast to Continue Group III Imports

April 9, 2021

Chinese refiners have opened several API Group III base oil plants in recent years, but for several reasons they do not ...

Lopal Exports Lubricants to Pakistan

Lopal Exports Lubricants to Pakistan

April 2, 2021

Chinese lubricants marketer Jiangsu Lopal Tech recently exported its first batch of lubricants to Pakistan, which it sai ...

The Year of the Ox

The Year of the Ox

April 1, 2021

Asia’s Increasing Influence on the Global Lubes Market After a tumultuous year for lubricant markets around the glo ...

China Leads Wind Energy Charge

China Leads Wind Energy Charge

March 26, 2021

Asia-Pacific’s wind power capacity reached almost 56 gigawatts in 2020, a 78% increase from 2019, according to data re ...

Yip’s Lube Profits Rose Despite COVID

Yip’s Lube Profits Rose Despite COVID

March 19, 2021

Hong Kong-based Yip’s Chemical Holdings Ltd.’s lubricants business reported higher operating profit and sales for th ...

Dow Plans Chemicals Plant in China

Dow Plans Chemicals Plant in China

March 5, 2021

Dow signed a memorandum of understanding Thursday to build a specialty chemicals hub in Zhanjiang, China. The $250 milli ...

Zeller+Gmelin Expands in China

Zeller+Gmelin Expands in China

February 26, 2021

German lubricant Zeller+Gmelin said this week that it is expanding in China, relocating into a larger factory after agre ...

China Lube Demand Keeps Rising

China Lube Demand Keeps Rising

February 26, 2021

China’s lube demand is projected to grow about 3% to 8.2 million tons in 2021, boosted by demand stemming from new inf ...

China Auto Sales Drop Again

China Auto Sales Drop Again

January 22, 2021

Auto sales in China declined 1.9% in 2020 to 25.3 million units, according to data released by the China Association of ...

PetroChina Opens Pilot PAO Plant

PetroChina Opens Pilot PAO Plant

January 22, 2021

PetroChina last month opened a pilot plant producing low-viscosity polyalphaolefin in Lanzhou, China, using technology d ...

Chemical Supplier Buying Control of Kangtai

Chemical Supplier Buying Control of Kangtai

December 25, 2020

Rianlon Corp., a Tianjin, China-based chemical company, will buy over 90% of the shares in Kangtai Lubricant Additives C ...

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Richful Builds Additive Plant After IPO

December 11, 2020

Richful Lube Additive Co. plans to build its second factory – located in Cangzhou, Hebei province, China – after con ...

Synthetics Gain as China Car Parc Evolves

Synthetics Gain as China Car Parc Evolves

December 4, 2020

China’s vehicle population, forecast to surpass the United States’ by the end of this year, has been transitioning t ...

Sinopec, University Partner on Research Center

Sinopec, University Partner on Research Center

November 27, 2020

Sinopec lube business arm Great Wall and Tsinghua University’s Tianjin Research Institute for Advanced Equipment forme ...

BASF Expands Esters Plant in China

BASF Expands Esters Plant in China

October 16, 2020

BASF said Monday that it will almost double synthetic ester base stocks production capacity at its Jinshan, China, site ...