Hyundai and Shell Base Oil Co. announced the opening of its API Group II plant in Daesan, South Korea, on Sept. 25.

Shanghai-based DongHao Oil Group announced yesterday it entered a debt reconstruction agreement that it hopes will be its first step toward exiting a ...

Russian industrial oils producer Orgkhim plans to build an extender process oils plant in Singapore or Malaysia, the company told Lube Report Asia on ...

ALICANTE, Spain – Repsol and SK Lubricants are ready to launch commercial production at their new API Group III base oil plant in Cartagena, Spa ...

North Americas finished lubricants consumption will remain little changed, with 0.5 percent compounded annual growth from 2013, to just shy of 3.1 bil ...

JX Nippon Oil & Energy USA Inc. will increase its lubricants blending plant capacity in Alabama from 34 million liters per year to 56 million lit ...

Indonesias PT Federal Karyatama (FKT) will consolidate and relocate its two blending plants in East Jakarta to one new plant in western Java by 2017, ...

ExxonMobil announced Friday that it is building a grease plant at its site in Jurong, Singapore. The company did not disclose the new facilitys capaci ...

The World Intellectual Property Organization dismissed a claim by skin care products supplier Beiersdorf AG that a Chinese lube marketer infringed on ...

Expansion of Chinas vehicle population will probably continue to slow, but the market still has room for significant growth, an industry insider told ...

Ray Masson discusses the future of API Group II base stocks in Europe.

Russias Gazprom Neft Lubricants and Rosmorport, a major icebreaker fleet operator, signed a marine oils supply deal as part of a long-term strategy to ...

RSC Bio Solutions opened a warehouse in Rotterdam, Netherlands, to distribute its biobased lubricants to European customers, particularly in the marin ...

Japanese companies Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. and Idemitsu Kosan Co. launched new construction machinery lubricants in Indonesia, not only to ...

Base oil traders in China are watching business dry up, partly because of an oversupply in the international market, speakers at an industry conferenc ...

Chinese lubricant marketer Lopal Tech unveiled a new strategy based on supply of green lubricants billed as helping motorists improve fuel economy.

A week after being subjected to fraud allegations by research firm Anonymous Analytics, lube additive producer Tianhe denied the claims and accused AA ...

Valvoline Cummins opened laboratories near Mumbai that will be used for research and development of lubricants and customer training.

Africa is a small but growing consumer of finished lubricants, but government spending on infrastructure will boost demand in the continents lubricant ...

The European Unions 2008 waste framework directive emphasizes recycling and rerefining of waste oil. The regions rerefiners expect the regulation to d ...