China

Fuchs Ups China Production

October 30, 2013

Fuchs Petrolub SE on Monday opened a blending plant in Yingkou, China, one of two that the company now operates in the country. The new facility repla ...

Chinas Rerefiners Modernize

October 16, 2013

CHONGQING, China – Primitive and unproductive to date, Chinas rerefining industry has begun to expand and modernize, the head of the countrys re ...

Gits Downsizes, Outsources

September 25, 2013

Lubrication equipment maker Gits Manufacturing announced last week that it will lay off 78 employees by June 2014 and move its Iowa production to Mexi ...

Kyrgyz Plant to Stream Base Oil

September 18, 2013

A new Chinese-run refinery expected to start up by Oct. 20 in Kyrgyzstan will produce base oil by 2014, the countrys energy minister said. The $300 m ...

Chemtura Corp. has begun the commissioning process of its new polyalphaolefin plant in Ankerweg, Netherlands, and almost simultaneously has started up ...

Evonik Ups Capacity in Asia

August 21, 2013

Evonik Oil Additives will expand its Singapore oil additives plant, with completion scheduled for early 2015, in response to Asia driving above-averag ...

Lubrizol yesterday announced the opening of its additives manufacturing facility in Zhuhai Gaolan Port Economic Zone in southern China. The plant in ...

Earlier this month, Japan-based petroleum company Idemitsu Kosan announced that its lubricants subsidiary in China, Idemitsu Lube China, will open a n ...

Singapore Lube Park – a joint venture among Shell, Sinopec and Total – yesterday announced it will build and operate facilities in southwe ...

Whats Next for Asia?

July 10, 2013

SINGAPORE – My bet is on China, one expert opined, making this is a great moment for Western producers to supply the country’s growing dem ...

SINGAPORE – Demand for higher quality lubricants is rising fast in China, the worlds largest lubricants market. At the same time, nearly every c ...

ExxonMobil opened a new Asia Pacific oil analysis laboratory at the companys Shanghai Technology Center in China. Signum, ExxonMobils oil analysis pr ...

Chinese Geely cars assembled in Russia will use Lukoils transmission oils for factory fill, the Russian oil major said last week. Derways, the compan ...

Chemturas plans to bring on line high viscosity PAO capacity in the Netherlands and synthetic grease capacity in China are on target for the second ha ...

Shell plans to open a new lubricants technical center in Shanghai, China, in 2014, driven by the companys growing lubricants business in the country. ...

JX Keeps an Eye on China

March 13, 2013

JX Nippon remains committed to its investment in China, despite the protracted political rift between the governments in Beijing and Tokyo over the di ...

Lubrizols CPI Engineering Services is partnering with Oxea Chemicals to manufacture synthetic refrigeration lubricants in Nanjing, China. Oxea has als ...

Gazprom to Oil Chinese Cars

January 30, 2013

Russian lube marketer Gazprom Neft-SM forged a technical and marketing partnership with the Chinese automaker Lifan, the energy giant said last week. ...

Shell on Friday announced the opening of its new 30,000 metric tons per year grease plant in Zhuhai, in Chinas Guangdong province. The grease plant, ...

CNOOC Adding Group II Plant

January 16, 2013

China National Offshore Oil Co. recently signed a contract to license Chevron Lummus Globals technology for a 400,000 metric tons per year API Group I ...