Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns in Asia have resulted in increased demand for food-grade lubricants, industry insiders said.

Two industry associations urged the Malaysian state of Sabah this week to allow oil palm plantations and mills to reopen, advising that the industry c ...

Asia-Pacific continued to lead in global wind power development in 2019, accounting for 50.7 percent of new installations, boosted by regulatory refor ...

Stated-owned Thai Oil Group’s base oil business posted a massive jump in net profit for the fourth quarter of 2019, and a slight decrease in net pro ...

An Indonesian blending plant partly owned by Repsol will begin producing the companys lubricants by April. The Spanish company plans to expand the pla ...

SK Lubricants acquired a 49 percent stake in Mekong Petrochemical JSC, Vietnams largest private lubricant company, as part of an expansion bid into th ...

Automotive sales in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations dropped 3 percent in 2019, but sales of two-wheelers increased 3 percent, according to ...

Vietnams increasing number of solar plant installations is boosting overseas demand for silicon wafer cutting oil used in solar panel manufacturing, a ...

Malaysias vehicle sales are projected to grow 1 percent to almost 609,000 units this year, according to a forecast by Frost & Sullivan. The countrys e ...

Indonesia has enough lubricant blending capacity to meet domestic demand, but because of high levels of imports it utilizes only half of that capacity ...

Idemitsu Kosan completed the construction of its second Indonesia lubricant blending plant, nearly doubling its production capacity within the country ...

Malaysias Petronas Lubricants International recently closed its lubricant blending plant near Buenos Aires, Argentina, and canceled plans to build a l ...

An Indonesian mandate for lubricants to meet the countrys new national SNI standard took effect last month, but some companies may still be waiting fo ...

Energy trading company Kismat Singapore entered the Southeast Asian lubricant market through a toll-blending deal in Malaysia, the company announced t ...

Viscosity modifier producer Innov Oil completed the relocation of its Singapore operations to a larger factory that provides increased production capa ...

Spains Repsol will begin blending lubricants in Southeast Asia through a joint venture with United Global Ltd., after acquiring a 40 percent stake in ...

Thailands lubricant demand is expected to grow this year as the automobile manufacturing sector expands and foreign companies relocate to the country ...

Transformer oil supplier Michang Oil Ind. Co. of South Korea plans to enter the Indonesian market by forming a joint venture, PT Sari Michang Concord, ...

Indonesias annual automotive lubricant demand reached about 360,000 metric tons in 2018, with the nations four-wheeler lubricant demand outpacing the ...

Diesel engine oils of obsolete API CF-4 service category and below still dominate Asias major commercial vehicle markets - China, India and Indonesia ...