South Korean refiner S-Oil reported that its base oil business posted a strong increase in operating income and a drop in sales revenue for the quarte ...

Reported lubricating grease production was up in China and Southeast Asia, and down in India and Japan, according to a survey by the United States-bas ...

Registrations of new passenger cars, trucks and buses fell 45 percent in May, compared to a year earlier, according to data released June 6 by the Jap ...

Japan’s base oil production for April fell 20 percent compared to the same month last year, according to data recently released by the country’s M ...

GS Caltex reported increased operating profit for its base oil and lubricant business, and KH Neochem Co. poster lower operating profit for its perfor ...

Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns in Asia have resulted in increased demand for food-grade lubricants, industry insiders said.

Asia accounted for more than half of 11.2 billion pounds of global wax supply in 2019, leading in petroleum waxes in large part because of China refin ...

Japan exported 4.8 million motor vehicles in 2019, a marginal increase from 2018, while domestic sales for all motor vehicles dropped 1.5 percent, acc ...

Japans volume of primary energy supply - oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear and renewable electricity - is projected to decline by 0.4 percent in fiscal ...

JXTG Holdings Inc. will change its trade name and the name of its lubricant and grease producing subsidiary to Eneos and integrate its management stru ...

A joint venture between Japanese grease maker Kyodo Yushi and its American partner Lubrication Engineers began operating a new grease plant in Wichita ...

Afton Chemical completed an expansion of its Japan Technology Center in Tsukuba to give it increased lubricant additive testing capabilities for the A ...

The Japanese car giant has big plans for EV and battery production.

Japans lubricant demand for full-year 2019 is expected to fall by 1.4 percent to 1.4 million metric tons, according to a recent press release by the P ...

Japan's Adeka Corp. will complete an expansion of its lubricant additive plant this month, and seeks to expand sale of its engine oil additives to the ...

Japans introduction of an ultra-low viscosity passenger car motor oil specification, GLV-1, in October will drive demand for base oils with a higher v ...

Japans domestic lubricant sales volumes fell by more than 10 percent in 2018, but exports increased by 30 percent, according to data released recently ...

Lubricating grease production in China appears to have continued its decline in 2018, according to the National Lubricating Grease Institutes yearly s ...

KH Neochems new refrigeration lubricant additive plant, expected to open early next year in Mie prefecture, western Japan, will increase the companys ...

Japans specialty lubricant manufacturer Moresco Corp. will begin operations at its new lubricant plant in India in June in an effort to expand its ove ...