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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 ...

Capacity increases may see China producing nearly 40 percent of the worlds naphthenic base oils within the next two years and potentially leapfrogging ...

Tianhe Earnings Dipped

March 30, 2018

Tianhe Chemicals Group reported yesterday that the gross profit for its lubricant additives segment decreased 7.2 percent in 2017 due to a drop in sal ...

With Chinas passenger car parc set to continue revving through the next five years, experts at an industry event last month said that diversified rout ...

Indias state-run oil marketing companies plan to set up used lubricating oil centers across the country with an aim of making collection efficient in ...

Fuchs Petrolub plans to start operation of its 36 million (U.S. $44.3 million) lubricants blending plant in Wujiang, a Suzhou district in Chinas Jiang ...

India is rerefining far less used lubricants than it could because of logistical challenges and apprehensions about the quality of recycled base oil, ...

National Refinery Ltd. plans to boost the production capacity of its base oil plant in Pakistan and has contracted a Chinese company to do the work.

The global lubricants industry is passing through a phase of little to no growth, but India remains a bright spot due to its steadily growing demand t ...

India is poised for exciting times ahead as the lure of mergers and acquisitions attracts domestic and foreign lubricant companies to forge new relati ...

Chinas base oil consumption will grow marginally but steadily in the next five years, according to a speaker from ICIS at the organizations World Base ...

Profits up in India, Pakistan

February 16, 2018

Continental Petroleums, Hi-Tech Lubricants, Balmer Lawrie, Tide Water Oil and Castrol India each reported higher profits for the quarter ended Dec. 31 ...

Taiwanese state-owned petroleum company CPC Corp. began construction of an automotive lubricant blending plant in southern Vietnam this month after a ...

Ji Er Run Ke, a lube blender based in Changsha, Hunan province, plans to invest 180 million (U.S. $28.4 million) in a facility in neighboring city, Mi ...

Asias Adcos Seek Wider Role

January 23, 2018

Both domestic and foreign additive companies are poised to take advantage of Asia-Pacifics expanding lube market.

Indian transformer oils and lubes manufacturer Apar Industries Ltd. formed a joint venture with a car dealer that aims to supply lubes to the governme ...

China will introduce new national standards for industrial white oils as soon as the middle of this year, according to a Sinopec representative at a r ...

Indian Lube Ads Rebuked

January 12, 2018

Indias advertising industry watchdog upheld recent complaints against allegedly misleading advertisements from two lubricant suppliers.

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