ExxonMobil is considering constructing a polyalphaolefin plant in the Asia-Pacific region, according to a recent posting on its website. The posting p ...

Private equity investment firm Advent International and Wilbur-Ellis announced last week they are merging their life sciences and specialty chemicals ...

Australia’s new government administration introduced a bill last week that would for the first time enshrine into law its goals for cutting greenhou ...

Ten percent of the lubricants consumed globally are counterfeit, according to a white paper published last week by the Asian Lubricants Industry Assoc ...

The joint venture owners of esters supplier Emery Oleochemicals have agreed to sell the Asia-Pacific portion of that business to a new joint venture b ...

A court last month ordered that transformer oil rerefiner Hydrodec Group’s dormant Australian subsidiary be wound down to insolvency, calling it the ...

Ampol said this week that it had formally commenced production and supply of Mobil lubricants at its lubricant manufacturing facility in Queensland, i ...

Ampol announced Monday that it will keep open its Lytton, Australia, refinery – which includes a finished lubricant blending plant – after agreein ...

Pertamina continues to working to expand lubricant sales overseas, with particular attention to Australia and Thailand. The Indonesia company recently ...

Asia-Pacific’s wind power capacity reached almost 56 gigawatts in 2020, a 78% increase from 2019, according to data released last week by the Global ...

An Australian court last week ruled in favor of Australian rerefiner Southern Oil Refining in its litigation against transformer oil rerefiner Hydrode ...

The COVID-19 pandemic was the biggest news in any industry in 2020, but the region’s lubricant markets had plenty of other significant happenings, f ...

Ampol will blend, distribute and market Mobil lubricants in Australia under a marketing alliance with ExxonMobil announced yesterday.

The Australia Lubricant Association has begun a program aimed at identifying products that do not meet marketing claims and helping suppliers address ...

Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. has put on hold plans for a revised proposal to acquire Caltex Australia, citing economic impacts and uncertainty brough ...

Fuchs Petrolub will relocate production of recently acquired Nulon-branded lubricants to its own facilities in the states of Victoria and New South Wa ...

The newly created Australian Lubricant Association plans to set up processes to verify labels and standardization of lube products sold in Australia, ...

Caltex Australia will rebrand its operations after Chevron notified the company that it cannot use the Caltex brand on its lubricants and grease produ ...

Viva Energy, Shells exclusive lubricants distributor in Australia, has completed its purchase of the remaining 50 percent of Liberty Oils Australian w ...

Caltex Australia, one of Australias biggest lubricants and grease suppliers, rejected an unsolicited A$8.6 billion (U.S. $5.8 billion) takeover bid fr ...