Asia

Japanese petroleum giant Idemitsu Kosan established a new lubricant sales company in Mexico that is slated to begin operations in June. According to ...

Malaysian lube manufacturer Hyrax Oil plans to construct a blending plant in Mozambique by the end of this year, in partnership with that countrys sta ...

Additives maker Infineum signed a lease agreement for a three-story building for its proposed new business and technology center in China, continuing ...

MUMBAI, India – India is now the worlds third-largest lubricant market, and its base oil producers are gearing up to provide the high quality oi ...

Chinese Geely cars assembled in Russia will use Lukoils transmission oils for factory fill, the Russian oil major said last week. Derways, the compan ...

Additives maker Infineum will restructure its corporate leadership team effective April 1, moving newly appointed sales and supply executive vice pres ...

Chemturas plans to bring on line high viscosity PAO capacity in the Netherlands and synthetic grease capacity in China are on target for the second ha ...

Shell plans to open a new lubricants technical center in Shanghai, China, in 2014, driven by the companys growing lubricants business in the country. ...

Idemitsu Kosan of Japan projects that 85 percent of new income in its functional products division – which includes chemicals and agri-bio produ ...

The United Nations Security Council recently strengthened sanctions against North Korea, adding perfluorinated lubricants to its list of prohibited it ...

JX Keeps an Eye on China

March 13, 2013

JX Nippon remains committed to its investment in China, despite the protracted political rift between the governments in Beijing and Tokyo over the di ...

Lubrizols CPI Engineering Services is partnering with Oxea Chemicals to manufacture synthetic refrigeration lubricants in Nanjing, China. Oxea has als ...

Petron Malaysia Refining and Marketing exited the lubricants sector as of March 1, citing the costs of introducing a new brand of lubricants in the Ma ...

Gulf Considers Lubes Demerger

February 13, 2013

Gulf Oil Corp. Ltd. may demerge its lubricants business into a separately listed company, according to a Feb. 8 filing with the National Stock Exchang ...

Russian oil major Lukoil is building a 100,000 metric tons per year lubricants blending plant in Kazakhstan. According to an official Kazakh governme ...

Robots Boost Singapore Lab

January 30, 2013

Intertek has added a robotic sample-handling system to its lubricant testing and oil condition monitoring lab in Singapore. The robotic sample handli ...

Gazprom to Oil Chinese Cars

January 30, 2013

Russian lube marketer Gazprom Neft-SM forged a technical and marketing partnership with the Chinese automaker Lifan, the energy giant said last week. ...

Chem-Trend and Kluber Lubrication India, business units of Freudenberg Group, are building a regional technical center in Mysore, India, for their spe ...

Shell on Friday announced the opening of its new 30,000 metric tons per year grease plant in Zhuhai, in Chinas Guangdong province. The grease plant, ...

Raaj Unocal Lubricants will manufacture and market co-branded engine oils exclusively for Hindustan Motors vehicles under an agreement signed in Kolka ...