Evonik Industries AG announced last week the completion of an expansion that nearly doubled capacity at its oil additives factory in Singapore. The Ju ...

ExxonMobil last week announced completion of its Baytown, Texas, refinery expansion, which will increase production of its API Group II and II+ base s ...

Nigerian lubricant producer Conoil will invest 5 billion naira (U.S. $2.5 million) on an additional blending plant in Lagos, with capacity of 60,000 m ...

Lube Report Asia has completed its first audit by BPA Worldwide, an achievement that validates the authenticity of its subscriber list. Publishers of ...

Bangladeshs MJL Ltd. reported a 10 percent increase in revenue and a 19 percent increase in profit for its lubricants operations in 2014. SK Lubricant ...

India is the worlds second-largest market for two-wheelers, and it is on track to move past China in the next couple decades, a trend that translates ...

Chinas slowing economy brings the domestic lubricant industry enormous challenges, including a decline in traditional manufacturing industries and a m ...

Indian grease and lubricant producer Balmer Lawrie said it plans to double its domestic market share in the next five years through expanded manufactu ...

Saprefs refinery in Durban, South Africa, has moved up a scheduled two-month maintenance shutdown following an April 17 pipeline fire, raising concern ...

Malaysias Petronas Dagangan Bhd. recently signed an eight-year, 51 million ringgit (U.S. $14 million) lubricants supply contract with Malaysian port o ...

Convincing Indian motorists to use higher quality engine oils requires a collective effort by car and motorcycle manufacturers, oil marketers, install ...

An April 9 fire damaged an Ahmedabad, India, depot owned by a distributor of Tide Water Oil Co., burning approximately Rs 13.5 million (U.S. $212,000) ...

With 240 million existing vehicles and booming sales, China is a crucial automotive lubes market, Infineum says. However, suppliers must cater to the ...

S-Oil saw first quarter base oil revenue drop compared to the same period a year ago because of a slide in prices, but its operating income surged sig ...

Russias largest lube producers increasingly are trumpeting the new government policy of import substitution, urging users to switch to locally made pr ...

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

The Asia-Pacific region accounts for around 70 percent of the global two-wheeler market, said an Infineum International Ltd. presenter in Stuttgart, G ...

Small-to-medium businesses, particularly in Africa, are being squeezed by the cost and limited availability of bulk liquid storage. One cost-effective ...

Agriculture and mining consume about 40 percent of Zambias lubricant volume, 80 percent of which is imported. While the majority of the market is API ...

Klines Kunal Mahajan examines the rubber process oils market.