Fuchs Petrolub AG has announced it is expanding two production facilities in Australia, bucking the trend of rival lube and grease makers to move offs ...

Malaysias state-owned Petronas Lubricants International plans to increase sales in Australia and New Zealand with a new marketing company, PLI Austral ...

Castrol India Ltd.s 2015 year-end and fourth quarter profits jumped 30 percent and 7 percent, respectively, compared to 2014s corresponding periods, w ...

V.Orlandi, an Italian towing systems supplier for original equipment manufacturers in Australia, is developing products that use less lubricant to hel ...

Scientists at Australias Edith Cowan University have developed a real-time sensor to detect when an engine oil has degraded and needs changing.

Australias lubricant demand may be flat to shrinking, but foreign companies continue to increase the volume that they import to the AU $1.7 billion ma ...

Australias fleet of light-duty vehicles continues shifting from gasoline power to diesel - a trend that will require changes in the engine oils suppli ...

Chevron has sold its New Zealand Caltex gasoline service-station network and lubricants interests to Z Energy, the company born out of Shell's NZ fuel ...

Southern Oil Refinings recently relocated rerefinery includes a hydrotreater, and SOR says the experience of operating it on behalf of joint venture p ...

BP and Caltex last week dissolved Australasian Lubricant Manufacturing Co., a 15-year joint venture that makes about 50 percent of the nations lubrica ...

Australia announced last month that it would not scrap an automotive bailout fund as previously planned, eliciting sighs of relief from automakers and ...

Chevron on Friday sold its 50-percent stake in Caltex Australia, a leading fuel retailer and one of the largest lubricant suppliers in Australia.

The worlds two biggest lubricant suppliers, Shell and ExxonMobil, both decided in recent years, that it was time to scale back operations in Australia ...

Graincorp this month officially opened a liquid terminals facility near Sydney, with base oils distributor Hilditch Pty leasing all 10 of the 1,250 cu ...

Intermediate bulk containers supplier Hoover Container Solutions Ltd. has moved its Australian operations to a larger facility in Perth, Western Austr ...

Caltex Australia announced yesterday that it will invest AU $5 million to construct and expand lubricant storage facilities at multiple locations. Off ...

Australia might be known as the land of opportunity, and its lubricant market has attractions, but it also has risks for lube suppliers.

Australias mining industry is a pillar of the countrys economy and a major consumer of lubricants. But domestic lube suppliers arent extracting much p ...

Ashland Inc.s motor oil brand Valvoline has come under fire in Australia for a recent television commercial criticized as promoting reckless driving.

Australia will continue to support oil recycling through its consumer-funded rebate program after vetoing a proposal to cut benefits.