Asia

Chinas Dongfeng Motor Corp. (Shiyan) Lubricating Oil Co. recently announced plans to build its second blending plant by April 2018.

Duties and taxes on synthetic lubricants in Sri Lanka shot up by 31 percent late last year, a move commerce advocate groups and traders say is roiling ...

In its initial public offering, Jiangsu Lopal Petrochemical Co. raised 494 million (U.S. $71.68 million) to build several new production, warehouse an ...

Tianhe Chemicals Groups lubricant additives segment recorded a 24 percent higher gross profit in 2016, according to a filing that also informed the Ho ...

Chevron Lanka recorded a 13 percent higher profit in 2016 - its best year yet - due to growth in the countrys manufacturing and power generation secto ...

Pakistans Oil and Gas Regulation Authority has granted an unprecedented number of marketing licenses to lubricant players in recent months in hopes of ...

Japanese Giants Unite

March 28, 2017

Upon their merger later this week, Japanese oil majors JX Holdings and TonenGeneral Sekiyu KK together will be the countrys largest supplier of lubric ...

A round of price hikes is working its way through Chinas lubricant market, but buyers will not necessarily be paying the amounts that marketers have a ...

Lub-rref (Bangladesh) Ltd. will open a 50,000 metric tons per year API Group II rerefinery by March 2019 with the help of American used oil regenerati ...

Lubrizol Corp. will buy an additional 24 percent stake of Lubrizol India Pvt., a 50-50 joint venture between the American additives supplier and India ...

Kazakhstan lubricant manufacturer Hill Corp. plans to expand its lubricant blending plant in Shymkent and also to begin construction of a long-discuss ...

Tractor operators in India may increasingly turn to universal tractor transmission oils to eliminate the need for multiple oils in one machine, accord ...

The Japanese Automotive Standards Organization revised its diesel engine oil standard, JASO M355, to include a new fuel economy category for heavy-dut ...

Tianhe Chemicals Group Ltd. said it is complying with - but not the subject of - a Hong Kong government anti-bribery agencys investigation into possib ...

For upwards of a year, Indias grease manufactures have had difficulty sourcing lithium hydroxide, a key raw material for making greases thickened with ...

Castrol India Ltd. recorded healthy gains in profit in its most recent quarter, and so did Pakistani supplier Hi-Tech Lubricants. India's Apar Industr ...

In the year since its January 2016 initial public offering, Pakistans Hi-Tech Lubricants Ltd. has invested around 1.2 billion rupees (U.S. $11.4 milli ...

South Korean Exports Increase

February 28, 2017

South Koreas exports of base oils and lubricants continued increasing in 2016, with China the biggest importer of its cargo.

It is no secret that Chinas state-owned enterprises dont always contract their lubricant-supplying peers. Many government agencies have shown preferen ...

Saudi Aramco announced Thursday the launch of a base oil marketing business, marking its shift to an active supplier rather than a somewhat passive ba ...