On a recent Friday afternoon in the downtown district of Jiangsu provinces capital city, Nanjing, several customers strolled through Chinese retailer ...

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 ...

Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd. reported a 13 percent jump in its first quarter net profit, thanks to higher other income. Revenue, however, rose only ...

China may soon welcome a new provider of synthetic lubricants derived from coal-to-liquid base stocks, as Shanxi Luan Taihang Lubricant Co. advances i ...

South Koreas S-Oil and SK Lubricants each increased lubricants sales in its second quarter, but neither achieved significant growth in operating incom ...

Zavenir Daubert India Pvt. and Chemische Werke Kluthe GmbH formed a joint venture to strengthen their reach in markets for specialty chemicals such as ...

The outlook for industrial lube demand in India is positive, thanks to government initiatives aimed at boosting manufacturing activity and infrastruct ...

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 ...

Lukoil established a lubricant subsidiary in China as part of its expansion in the Asia-Pacific region. It opened an office in the northwestern city o ...

Lube sales in Sri Lanka were up 11.4 percent last year, as Chevron continued to hold the lions share of the 26.1 billion rupees (U.S. $170 million) ma ...

MOSCOW – Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan – a region with sluggish base oil production and exports – could find fresh export ...

GP Petroleums Ltd. plans to eventually acquire a blending plant in southern India and to bank on the bazaar segment to increase its automotive lubrica ...

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 ...

Indias lube suppliers have long relied on local storage hubs for most sales across the country, but at least some are set to begin consolidating depot ...

Japans sales of base oils used in the production of lubricants rose about half a percentage point in 2016 to approximately 2.1 million metric tons, du ...

South Korean police arrested a chemical products distribution trio that allegedly sold the military fake specialty lubricants thought to have caused m ...

Fujian Jinrong Energy Technology broke ground on a base oil rerefinery that will use proprietary technology co-developed by the firm and Chinese partn ...

Chinas base oil capacity has expanded significantly in recent years, but at least some refiners are now producing well below capacity. In the short te ...

India will become a common market after it implements its Goods and Services Tax system in July, and lubricant suppliers anticipate a complex transiti ...

A competition regulator imposed a penalty of 870 million rupees (U.S. $13.5 million) on South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor Co.s Indian unit for anti ...