In 2014, confronted with economic sanctions imposed by Western nations, Russias government adopted a policy that encouraged Russian companies to repla ...

DIC Corp. began expanding its capacity to produce extreme pressure additives for metalworking fluids at its plant in Kashima, Japan. The company did n ...

Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P. said on Monday that it acquired Biosynthetic Technologies, a startup that converts sustainable plant oils in ...

Petrobras blending plant in Duque de Caxias, Brazil, will be one of the worlds five largest when an expansion there is completed in 2020, the company ...

Net income for PT Federal Karyatamas lubricants segment remained stable year on year in 2017, but its sales volumes dropped 3 percent to 61.3 million ...

Malaysian demand for automotive engine oil is expected to grow at a compound annual rate of 2.9 percent between 2016 and 2021 to 202,000 metric tons, ...

Capacity increases may see China producing nearly 40 percent of the worlds naphthenic base oils within the next two years and potentially leapfrogging ...

Lubricant industry insiders predicted an EPA decision to ditch ambitious fuel economy targets may slow the shift toward 0W engine oils but wont revers ...

The next big, official push toward lower-viscosity passenger car motor oils in North America may still be several years off, but Toyota has already st ...

The American Petroleum Institute advised yesterday that May 1 will be the first licensing date for API SN Plus, the supplemental classification for pa ...

Tianhe Chemicals Group reported yesterday that the gross profit for its lubricant additives segment decreased 7.2 percent in 2017 due to a drop in sal ...

With Chinas passenger car parc set to continue revving through the next five years, experts at an industry event last month said that diversified rout ...

Indias state-run oil marketing companies plan to set up used lubricating oil centers across the country with an aim of making collection efficient in ...

Fuchs Petrolub plans to start operation of its 36 million (U.S. $44.3 million) lubricants blending plant in Wujiang, a Suzhou district in Chinas Jiang ...

Axel Christiernsson announced Monday its acquisition of Royal Manufacturing, a deal that will triple Axels grease production capacity in the United St ...

The Lubricant Producers Association of Nigeria has asked the national government to prevent one of its agencies from imposing a new fee on base oil im ...

Shell Co. of Thailand plans to increase its number of automotive oil change outlets and significantly raise lubricant sales by 2025 as the local lubri ...

Thailands PTT Lubricants will set up a lube storage facility for its Asean market and look into acquisitions to grow its overseas lubricant business, ...

India is rerefining far less used lubricants than it could because of logistical challenges and apprehensions about the quality of recycled base oil, ...

In April, the United Kingdom Lubricants Association Metalworking Fluid Product Stewardship Group and the countrys Health and Safety Executive will lau ...