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Hi-Tech Lubricants Ltd., a Pakistani supplier of SK Lubricants Zic brand, is set to expand its share of the domestic market with a new blending plant ...

Dutch additive supplier BRB International is partnering with a Singapore engineering firm to build a viscosity index improver factory that will open n ...

ExMo, Tata Tie Up in India

September 8, 2015

ExxonMobil and Tata Motors launched a range of co-branded lubricants offered for commercial vehicles.

Safety-Kleens parent company on Monday announced it will begin charging to collect used oil from all non-contract generators and will expand its appli ...

Russia Lowers Lube Export Tax

September 2, 2015

The Russian government further lowered its lubricant export tax, due to low average crude oil prices on international markets in July and August. The ...

Russian Gazpromneft Lubricants sealed a factory-fill agreement with Kazakh car and machinery maker Agromash Holding. Under the deal, Gazprom is signif ...

The Japanese Society of Automotive Engineers has adopted a valve train wear test for diesel engine oils that ends reliance on a test motor no longer i ...

GTS Expands Blend Plant

September 1, 2015

GTS Chemical this month completed an expansion of its blending plant in Shandong province, China, intended to assist the growth of its fledgling lubri ...

Lanka IOC said it expects to increase its share of the Sri Lanka engine oil market from 17 percent to 23 percent by building more fuel stations. The i ...

Trucking will remain the dominant mode of freight transportation in the United States over the next 11 years, with the number of Class 8 trucks projec ...

Sinopec is considering closing its API Group I base oil plant in Yanshan, China, early next year due to difficulties obtaining feedstock.

The Petroleum Association of Japan forecast that lubricant demand in Japan will drop by 1.1 percent this year to 1.35 million metric tons, with consum ...

Manila officials toured the Pandacan depot recently to check the progress of three oil firms under a Philippines Supreme Court order to vacate it.

Afton Chemical Corp. announced last week that it will expand its new lubricant additives plant in Singapore, increasing its investment there to about ...

Net Revenue Up for Cosan

August 19, 2015

Net revenue was up for lubricants manufacturer and distributor Cosan Lubrificantes in the second quarter, compared to 2014s second quarter. The Brazil ...

ExxonMobil plans to close the Group I base oil and wax plant at its Beaumont, Texas, refinery by the second quarter of 2016, the company confirmed to ...

Tianhe Chemicals disclosed Friday that its auditor has advised that it may not vouch for the validity of the companys 2014 financial results.

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 ...

Local government in Tianjin, China, suspended port traffic following Wednesdays deadly warehouse explosions at the northeast China industrial zone, wh ...

Balmer Lawrie & Co.s greases and lubricants segment moved from the red to black with its performance for the quarter ended June 30, while Savita Oil T ...