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 ...

Japans Mitsui Chemicals plans a February 2021 opening for a plant that will produce its Lucant-branded hydrocarbon-based synthetic fluids, which are u ...

Japans Idemitsu Kosan Co. and Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K. merged on Monday, becoming the second-largest lubricant supplier in Japan.

The Japanese Automotive Standards Organization is preparing for adoption next month of a new specification for ultra-low-viscosity 0W-12 and 0W-8 pass ...

Cosmo Oil and Spanish refiner Cepsa are discussing ways of aligning lubricant businesses and may use each other's blending plants to do so.

The Petroleum Association of Japan forecast that the countrys lubricant demand growth will slow to an annual rate of 0.7 percent this year to reach 1. ...

Japans Mitsui Chemicals plans to build a second plant in Japan for the production of its ethylene alpha olefin viscosity modifiers, according to a pre ...

Lubricant prices in many markets have risen in recent months, largely due to the past years run-up in crude oil costs. In Japan, oil marketers are rai ...

Japans base oil export volumes plunged 24 percent last year as production and domestic sales fell and imports continued to increase, according to init ...

JXTG Holdings Inc., said it resumed full production at its Wakayama refinery's API Group I base oil plant last month and began exporting product, a co ...

DIC Corp. began expanding its capacity to produce extreme pressure additives for metalworking fluids at its plant in Kashima, Japan. The company did n ...

KH Neochem Co. will build a 7.5 billion (U.S. $67 million) facility in western Japan to manufacture additives for refrigeration lubricants.

Japans Mitsui Chemicals Inc. plans to expand capacity for its Lucant-branded polymer lubricant additives, the company told Lube Report Asia recently.

Japans JXTG Group will convert all of its 2,800 Esso- and Mobil-branded fuel stations in the country to Eneos by 2020, but will continue selling Exxon ...

Indonesias national oil company, PT Pertamina Lubricants, signed an agreement recently to explore the possibilities of establishing a grease company w ...

Japans lubricant demand is forecasted to marginally rebound this year to 1.2 million metric tons due to demand from the industrial and automotive sect ...

Idemitsu Kosan Co. said on Thursday that it was able to proceed with its offer of 48 million new shares, after the Tokyo High Court rejected a shareho ...

Some Idemitsu Kosan shareholders are seeking a court injunction to stop the company from issuing new shares that would help finance its merger with Sh ...