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Under the current government leadership, Chinese lubricant companies should expect the next decade to be the best of times, an analyst told an industr ...

Tall Task

April 25, 2014

Russias Gazprom is trying to build its lubricant business into a larger, more profitable operation. Doing so could be challenging given the scope of i ...

Long on Promise

April 25, 2014

When the Soviet Union broke apart, Ukraines grease industry lost its biggest market and Russia lost its main supplier. Now the industries in both coun ...

The country's lubricants market rose in volume by 8.3 percent in 2013, yet GDP grew just 2.3 percent. Why such startling data? Pedro Nelson Belmiro ha ...

Scam Targets NLGI Members

April 23, 2014

The National Lubricating Grease Institute has initiated legal action against a scam group claiming theyve been hired to help members book hotel rooms ...

Indias new fuel economy standards will demand lower viscosity automotive lubricants and more bespoke formulations, an official at a leading oil market ...

Sales of diesel-powered vehicles surpassed gasoline-powered cars in South Korea for the first time in 2013.

Casa Angsana Petroleum Product, a Malaysian lubricant producer based in Kota Baharu, Kelantan, recently introduced a system of recruiting freelance sa ...

Right after finishing construction of its second rerefinery, Australias Southern Oil Refining says it may have to close its first if the country enact ...

Independents and majors are competing for Nigerias growing synthetic lubricants market, as Lubcon International, Forte Oil and Epoxy Oilserv all launc ...

Gazprom Neft commissioned the second stage of its lubricant blending production in Omsk, Western Siberia, and confirmed it will soon start constructio ...

Fuchs Petrolub announced that its Australian subsidiary will build a lubricant blending plant in Beresfield, New South Wales, Australia, to replace an ...

South Korea's lubricant market is reacting to more stringent diesel vehicle emission limits that are being phased in this year and next with higher qu ...

Balmer Lawrie & Co., Indias grand old grease company, is trying to shake off some dust. In the midst of a multi-plant plan to expand its production ca ...

Sinopec Lubricants became a recommended supplier of oil-air lubricating oil for Yantai Huashun Machinery Engineering Equipments oil-air centralized lu ...

Three oil companies dominate all lubricant product segments within Ghana, but independents and smaller blenders are fighting hard for their share of t ...

India has become the third largest consumer of finished lubricants in the world, but opinion is still divided on the future of the market.

While lubricants consumption continues to increase in Ukraine, Turkey and Romania, economic turmoil in those countries – and political feuds in ...

TAMPA BAY, Fla.-California is cracking down on plastic packaging, but many lubricant manufacturers and packagers are unaware or uncertain of their obl ...

Lubricant marketer Fuchs Petrolub has entered a marketing partnership to supply lubricants and fluids for users of DMG Mori Seiki metalworking machine ...