Eneos Corp. is conducting a two-year study on recycled waste lubricants to help establish supply of rerefined base oil in Japan, the company said in a ...

Chinese consumers’ rapid adoption of electric vehicles offers opportunities for suppliers of transmission fluids to meet the changing requirements o ...

In an effort to reduce reliance on virgin base oils and to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions, the Japanese government has commissioned the Japan Lu ...

Japan’s consumption of finished lubricants jumped 27%, and production swelled by 37% in June, compared to the same month last year, according to dat ...

Japanese specialty lubricant producer Moresco Corp. reported improved sales for its specialty lubricants for its first fiscal quarter ended in May, wi ...

Finished lubricants consumption in Japan dipped 1%, while production jumped by nearly 60% in May, compared to the same month last year, according to d ...

Cosmo Energy Holdings Co. announced recently that its Carboneut-brand 10W-30 diesel engine oil became the first engine oil accredited to bear the Biom ...

Raw material prices were a common theme in the earnings of Japan’s KH Neochem and Yushiro Chemical for the quarter ending March 31. The higher costs ...

Japan’s lubricants production and domestic lubricant demand both surged by almost 50% in April, compared to the same month last year, according to d ...

Japan’s production and exports of lubricants both remained steady throughout the first quarter of this year, while domestic sales fell more than 10% ...

Japanese specialty lubricant maker Moresco Corp. reported higher sales for its fiscal year that ended in February for specialty lubricants, driven by ...

Finished lubricants consumption in Japan edged down 1% to 127,473 kiloliters in February, from 128,987 kL in the same month in 2021, according to data ...

Shell has vowed to close its lubricant business along with other operations in Russia to protest that country’s invasion of Ukraine. TotalEnergies s ...

Japan’s January lube consumption slid to 104,243 kiloliters (93,700 metric tons), down 7% from 111,525 kL in the same month last year, according to ...

Japan’s KH Neochem Co.’s performance materials segment, which includes refrigeration lubricant raw materials, and metalworking fluid and industria ...

Japan consumed 1.5 million kiloliters (1.3 million metric tons) of finished lubricants in 2021, a 4% increase from 2020’s total, according to data r ...

Eneos Corp., said this week that it will close its refinery in Wakayama, Japan – which includes a base oil plant – by 2023. Combined with previous ...

Japanese specialty lubricant manufacturer Moresco Corp. reported higher sales of specialty lubricants and slightly higher sales of synthetic oils for ...

Domestic vehicles sales in Japan last year were down slightly from 2020 and remained well behind 2019, according to data released by the Japanese Auto ...

Japan’s finished lubricant demand dropped by more than 10% in November, compared to the same month last year, but was up a bit from October, accordi ...