The Asian Lubricant Manufacturers Union appointed Bernard Wong as its new executive director effective Dec. 1.

In Japan, KH Neochem Co. reported steep declines in third-quarter operating income and net sales for its performance materials segment, while metalwor ...

Sinopec lube business arm Great Wall and Tsinghua University’s Tianjin Research Institute for Advanced Equipment formed a joint research center in T ...

Lanka IOC said recently that it expects to complete construction of Sri Lanka’s first grease plant by the end of this year and that the 3,000 metric ...

South Korean base oil refiner GS Caltex and Thai Oil’s base oil business both posted large increases in net profit for the quarter ending Sept. 30.

Mitsui Chemicals Inc. announced last week that it has finished building a plant that will make synthetic hydrocarbon fluids that it markets under the ...

For the quarter ending Sept. 30, India’s Tide Water Oil Co. and GP Petroleums Ltd. both reported strong increases in profits, while MJL Bangladesh L ...

South Korea’s volume of base oil exports for September were barely higher than the same month of 2019 and slightly less than in August of this year, ...

Japan’s Sanyo Chemical Industries delayed until early next year the start of operations at its new viscosity index improver plant in South Korea bec ...

Castrol India Ltd. reported higher profit for the quarter ending Sept. 30, compared to the same period in 2019, while Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd. p ...

Japan consumed 109,012 kiloliters of finished lubricants in September, according to data released Oct. 30 by the country’s Ministry of Economy, Trad ...

For the quarter ending Sept. 30, India’s Apar Industries posted higher net profit and Sri Lanka’s Lanka IOC reported a huge decline in profit, com ...

The onset of the coronavirus pandemic was like a mighty gust of wind that blew asunder the many ships sailing the seas of the base oils industry. Prod ...

Goodyear announced Wednesday that it reached an agreement for an India-based company to manufacture and market automotive lubricants in the country un ...

Troubled oil trader and lubricants producer Hin Leong Trading Pte. has apparently been put up for sale, based on notices placed in local media earlier ...

S-Oil reported a strong increase in operating income for its base oil business, while SK Lubricants posted lower operating profit, for the quarter end ...

A year and a half after acquiring it, Idemitsu Kosan Co. is selling Shell Lubricants Japan K.K. back to Royal Dutch Shell – because Idemitsu decided ...

Japan consumed 101,588 kiloliters of finished lubricants in August, according to data released recently by the government’s Ministry of Economy, Tra ...

SK Innovation said Sunday that it has developed a process to make API Group III base stocks from pyrolysis oil extracted from waste plastics. The anno ...

Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. plans to construct a 235,000 metric ton per year base oil plant at its Gujarat, India, refinery as part of a petrochemical and l ...