Asia

Global energy demand will climb 25 percent by 2040, with the Asia-Pacific region leading the charge and China and India collectively accounting for ne ...

As Chinas OEMs scatter to Southeast Asia, many metalworking fluid producers are following - but one company has found its niche on the home front.

CNOOC Opens Base Oil Plant

December 20, 2016

China National Offshore Oil Corp. has begun making base stocks at its fuels and petrochemical refinery in Taizhou, China. The new plant has capacity t ...

American lube additives maker Chevron Oronite selected United States-based Fluor Corp. to complete the front-end engineering and design of its manufac ...

Apar Industries transformer oils and specialty oils segment tumbled 32 percent in its second quarter, while revenue dropped by double digits despite a ...

Idemitsu Kosan Co. closed a 159 billion (approximately U.S. $1.4 billion) acquisition of 31.3 percent of fellow Japanese refiner Showa Shell Sekiyu K. ...

Songwon Industrial Co., a chemical company specializing in antioxidants, has begun supplying that category of materials to the lubricant industry.

A year after Chinese refiner Hainan Handi Sunshine Petrochemical Co. launched a finished lubricant marketing firm, Handi Lubricant Technology, the sub ...

Nikkei Asian Review reported Wednesday that Idemitsu Kosan Co. and Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K. can and likely will begin to cooperate even if Idemitsus bo ...

French oil giant Total Lubricants opened a grease production plant in Tianjin, China, Friday - its first in the Asia-Pacific region.

Tongyi Lubricants CEO Li Jia had a fruitful journey to the United States recently. The trip saw Tongyi gain rights for domestic sales of an American b ...

Asia-Pacific demands more white oils than any other region, according to an industry consultancy, due to China being the world's largest consumer of t ...

Chinese blender Qingdao Copton Technology Co. increased earnings by 31 percent on the year in its third quarter and sold one of its subsidiaries, a wh ...

South Koreas lubricant consumption increased marginally in 2016 but is not likely to show any growth in 2017, the Korea Lubricating Oil Industry Assoc ...

Tide Water Q2 Profit Declines

November 29, 2016

Lubricants maker Tide Water Oil Co. (India) Ltd. reported a nearly 16 percent drop in its second-quarter net profit, due in part to a rise in total ex ...

More Chinese blenders are registering their lubricants under NSF Internationals program for food-grade compounds. The latest to do so, Beijia Lubricat ...

Sri Lankas demand for marine lubricants plummeted last year, and some observers blame high import duties for driving up local costs and steering shipo ...

Net profits for Thai Lube Base fell 69 percent during the quarter ended Sept. 30, while Indias Continental Petroleums and Panama Petrochem recorded a ...

Lubricant demand in India is projected to rise 4.3 percent this year, according to Kline & Co., with strong growth for passenger car and two-wheeler l ...

Balmer Lawrie & Co.s greases and lubricants segment recorded a 17 percent increase in operating profit in its second quarter, and blender GP Petroleum ...