Asia

Japanese metalworking fluids manufacturer Yushiro Chemical Industry Co. expects to complete construction of two plants in China in the second half of ...

Japans Idemitsu Kosan Co. and Kuwait Petroleum International Ltd. plan to set up a joint venture to distribute petroleum products, including lubricant ...

BASF announced the start-up last week of a new specialty amines plant in Nanjing, China. The facility will make dimethylaminopropylamines primarily fo ...

Indias Tide Water Oil agreed last week to a 9.59 million (U.S. $13.8 million) acquisition of Price Thomas Holdings Ltd., which owns United Kingdom-bas ...

Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd.s plan to build a blending plant at Chennai, India, is moving ahead once again and is on track to open by late 2017, com ...

ExxonMobil announced last week the completion of an expansion at its lubricants blending facility in Taicang, China, a response to long-term growth th ...

Indias lubricant market attracts much attention because of trends for size and quality. But several of its neighbors - Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal ...

Small and medium-sized private Chinese lubricants manufacturers formed an association in Beijing last month to endorse and boost the quality of domest ...

Demand for synthetic base stocks in India is growing, but the markets price consciousness means that most of the volume increases in coming years will ...

Malaysias state-owned Petronas Lubricants International plans to increase its presence in Chinas industrial diesel engine oil market after raising its ...

Indias lubricant market may be lagging developed markets in terms of the quality of finished products and the base stocks that it uses, but it has beg ...

Savita Oil will soon complete a consolidation project that moves all of its lubricant manufacturing and storage operations to one facility in Silvassa ...

Sinopec said it will start developing lubes and greases for use in high-tech industries such as robotics, high-speed railways, and wind power generati ...

Tianhe Chemicals Groups lubricant additive business posted a slight increase in revenue in 2015, the company reported last week. It also advised that ...

A study found that genuine passenger car engine oils in Korea tested more poorly than products branded by oil marketers, even though the genuine oils ...

Most marketers would agree its not easy to expose a lubricants brand to 4.7 billion people, but Gulf Oil says it can potentially accomplish that by sp ...

Infineum announced Thursday the opening of its first wholly owned lubricant additive production site in China, a 100,000 metric ton per year blending ...

If India is one of Asias brightest lubricant markets, then much of its light comes from motorcycle and passenger car engine oil segments. Demand for t ...

MJL Bangladesh announced that it obtained a license from the government to offer marine lubricants duty-free to ocean-going vessels. The Dhaka-based c ...

Chinese lubricant supplier Copton Technology Co. last week gained final approval to launch an initial public offering on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, ...