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Under the current government leadership, Chinese lubricant companies should expect the next decade to be the best of times, an analyst told an industr ...

Sinopec Lubricants became a recommended supplier of oil-air lubricating oil for Yantai Huashun Machinery Engineering Equipments oil-air centralized lu ...

Lubricant marketer Fuchs Petrolub has entered a marketing partnership to supply lubricants and fluids for users of DMG Mori Seiki metalworking machine ...

Shell opened a 1.8 billion (U.S. $290 million) lubricant technology center in Shanghai last week. The worlds largest lubricant supplier hopes the faci ...

Having the world's largest automobile market as their home creates opportunities for Chinese car and truck makers. But they also face big challenges, ...

Lukoil claims that it is being openly defrauded by a former Chinese distributor falsely claiming that it is still an authorized dealer in China.

The practice of selling counterfeit lubricants appears to be alive and well in China. Authorities say supply chains of criminals are widening and that ...

Chinese demand for machine tools will grow more than 9 percent annually for the next four years, according to forecasts by a United States industry re ...

New auto sales in China topped 20 million units for the first time in 2013, solidifying the countrys status as the worlds largest market. Sales of new ...

In a recent test by China Consumer Report magazine, Kunlun Tianyuan engine oil caused more engine-clogging deposits than four other leading synthetic ...

Profits Up at China Rerun

February 4, 2014

Lubricant marketer China Rerun Chemical reported that gross profits for the 12 months ended Aug. 31 increased 22 percent compared to the previous year ...

Base stock sellers and buyers in China now have a platform where they can comingle in search of mutually beneficial deals. Since last month, base stoc ...

Hainan Handi Set to Expand

January 14, 2014

Chinas Hainan Handi Sunshine Petrochemical Co. is preparing to build a base oil plant that will increase its capacity from 300,000 metric tons per yea ...

PNA Launches Group II Plant

January 8, 2014

Naphthenic base oil producer Panjin Northern Asphalt has opened a paraffinic Group II plant in northern China. The new facility, located in Liaoning P ...

Chinas Sinopec has found a way to get its transformer oil sold in other countries - by tying in with Chinese transformer manufacturers.

The new year marked the implementation in China of higher gasoline quality standards designed to help reduce air pollution. One observer warns that au ...

BRIC Countries Recover

January 1, 2014

BRUSSELS-The $1 trillion economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China all have different development drivers and potential for growth, but consultancy ...

Sinopec Upgrades Base Oils

November 27, 2013

Chinese petroleum giant Sinopec has been busy upgrading its base oil sites to meet the nations fast-growing demand for high quality lubes.Zeng Haiying ...

More Lubes for China

November 27, 2013

Shell has completed an expansion that doubles the size of its lubricant blending facilities in Zhapu, China.In an announcement last week, officials sa ...

Total Invests in Lubes

November 6, 2013

Total recently inaugurated two lubricants blending plants, one on the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia, and the other in Tianjin in northern China.The tw ...