Russian grease maker Intesmo, a joint venture between Lukoil and Russian Railways, is ready to launch its new grease plant early next month to supply ...

Balmer Lawries grease and lubricants segment posted a loss for the three months ended June 30, while Sah Petroleums moved back into the black after a ...

Numaligarh Refinery Ltd. is preparing to open to open the largest wax plant in India - a 50,000 ton per year facility being built in the northeastern ...

China Rerun Chemical and Liaoning Huachen Petrochemical are discussing potential areas of cooperation, including a merger of the companies equity, Rer ...

Total and Kia signed a long-term lubricants supply deal for the Korean automakers car dealer network in Russia. Under the five-year agreement, Total V ...

Lukoils production of base oils and lubricants combined fell 8 percent last year compared to 2012, but it still captured 48 percent of the combined ma ...

Facing up to Japans shrinking lube market, Cosmo Oil Co. announced last week a supply agreement to have its lubricants manufactured by TonenGenerals E ...

Idemitsu Kosan Co. is nearing completion of an expansion that will increase capacity of its lubricant plant in Thailand by 20 percent by November.

The Nigeria automotive policy, first launched in 1993, never got the political backing it needed to be fully implemented. But the government recently ...

Economic and political turmoil in Ukraine, Turkey and Romania could force the regions small to mid-size blenders to look elsewhere for new opportuniti ...

Hydrodec signed engineering, licensing and technology collaboration agreements with Chemical Engineering Partners for a planned U.K. rerefinery capabl ...

Lukoil sold its Ukranian retail fuels business to Austrian company AMIC Energy Management GmbH, but said its lube distribution in the country will rem ...

Kluber Lubrication and sister company Chem-Trend opened a research and development center near Shanghai, their parent company, Freudenberg Group, anno ...

Lubricant marketer MJL Bangladesh reported a 50 percent jump in its profit for the first half of 2014, while Indias Savita posted a 25 percent drop in ...

The election of Narendra Modi to the post of prime minister was generally viewed as good for Indias economy, and that is considered good news for the ...

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

South Korea is moving toward implementation of a major chemicals law modeled after the European Unions REACH regulation.

Taken together, the region is dynamic, daunting, fragmented -- a real mixed bag. Get a grip by viewing each country's needs individually, a Lubrizol e ...

Gabriela Wheeler finds a fairly snug and dry U.S. base oil market and wonders how swampy things will get this fall.

The Tanzania Bureau of Standards published a public notice naming several types of passenger and heavy duty motor oil the agency says do not comply wi ...