India

Balmer Lawrie & Co., Indias grand old grease company, is trying to shake off some dust. In the midst of a multi-plant plan to expand its production ca ...

India, the worlds third-largest lubricant market, will experience average annual growth of 2.5 percent over the next five years, Kline & Co. predicts ...

India recently announced a new schedule of mandates to raise the fuel efficiency of passenger cars over the next eight years. Observers say the rules ...

JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp., a Japanese petroleum giant, signed a memorandum of understanding to set up a joint venture with Indian lubricant manufac ...

Consumers in the Indian state of Delhi pay a significant price for a 21 percent value added tax that the government assesses on lubricants. Lubricant ...

The bazaar may be an ancient part of commerce in India, but the countrys lubricant industry appears to be discovering it once again. Insiders say supp ...

Lubricant marketers in India have begun working harder to cultivate positive images for their products. Analysts say suppliers are trying various stra ...

Gulf Oil Corp. Ltd. plans to construct a blending plant in or near Chennai, India. Officials say the business will also augment an existing plant in S ...

Vote Endorses Gulf Demerger

February 4, 2014

Gulf Oil Corp. shareholders on Thursday gave a ringing endorsement to managements proposal to carve out the companys lubricant business. In a court-or ...

The Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has effectively imposed a steep tax hike on lubricants by removing them from the list of items subject to its value ...

Gulf Oil Extends Reach

January 21, 2014

Gulf Oil Ltd. said late last year that it has entered three more markets - Kazakhstan, South Sudan and Croatia. The Indian lubricants and fuels suppli ...

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 ...

Idemitsu Keen on India

November 6, 2013

Idemitsu Lube India Pvt Ltd. began production Oct. 30 at its new 2.6 billion rupee (U.S. $41.8 million) blending plant in India, and targets sales to ...

Petronas Lubricants International will invest $50 million to build its first lubricants blending plant in India, with the first phase expected to be c ...

Indias Snarled Logistics

June 12, 2013

MUMBAI, India – Indias logistics industry is highly unorganized and fragmented, and costs are high, posing challenges for the worlds third large ...

MUMBAI, India – India will feel the greatest demographic and social pressures in coming decades, as young people spiral up consumption, shops tu ...

MUMBAI, India – Executives from Fuchs and Total offered international perspectives on doing business in India at last months ICIS Indian Base Oi ...

MUMBAI, India – India will become the worlds second largest commercial vehicle market by 2015, and combined passenger car and commercial vehicle ...

Valvoline Cummins Ltd. has opened a plant in India with capacity to manufacture and package 120 million liters of lubricants per year, with possible e ...

MUMBAI, India – Indias base oil market is growing 2 to 4 percent a year, but with no expansions planned, the country will continue to import mor ...