Southeast Asia

Despite a 4 percent drop in Southeast Asias sales of four-wheel vehicles in 2015 and a 12 percent slide in motorcycle and scooter sales, industry anal ...

Vietnam Cuts Lube Import Tax

February 16, 2016

Vietnam no longer collects tariffs on lubricants imported from Association of Southeast Asian Nations member states, which will open up the countrys g ...

As warranties expire on the first waves of Indonesia's low-cost green cars, independent automobile workshops are likely to see significant growth in t ...

Lubricant blenders in Indonesia have an enormous and growing surplus of manufacturing capacity - more than 50 percent, according to government officia ...

Croda Expands Singapore Plant

December 29, 2015

Croda International Plc announced last week that it completed an expansion that doubled the size of its alkoxylation plant in Singapore.

German lubricant marketer Lubricant Consult GmbH opened a blending plant in Binan, the Philippines, saying the facility will serve as its springboard ...

Base stocks produced at a Pertamina refinery in Cilacap, Indonesia, would be upgraded as part of a multi-billion retrofit agreed to by the Indonesian ...

ExMo Reenters Vietnam

December 1, 2015

ExxonMobil is reentering the Vietnamese finished lubricants market via two distributors after selling its blending plant and most other lube assets th ...

Pertamina Lubricants plans to increase overseas sales by expanding blending plants in Thailand and Indonesia, according to company sources.

PT Federal Karyatamas profit for the first nine months of 2015 jumped 36 percent this year while its revenue dipped 3 percent. GP Petroleums Ltd.s pro ...

Indonesian state-owned lubricant company Pertamina Lubricants aims to grab a bigger share of the domestic market by opening a chain of workshops for m ...

Tianhe Chemicals is in the midst of building two lubricant additive factories that it plans to open next year, in Dubai and Singapore.

Shell said it is within weeks of opening its first lubricant blending plant in Indonesia - a facility north of Jakarta with capacity of 120,000 metric ...

Idemitsu in Flux in Asia

October 13, 2015

Japans Idemitsu Kosan Co. will supply finished lubricants from its blending plant in Vietnam to Southeast Asia by next year to strengthen its lubrican ...

Petronas Builds R&D Center

October 6, 2015

Malaysias Petronas Lubricants International is building what it claims will be the largest lubricant research and development center in Europe - an 80 ...

With some predicting lubricant consumption in Indonesia will continue to decline, suppliers are vying to grab sales volume by introducing niche 10W en ...

ExMo Expands Plant for Mobil 1

September 22, 2015

ExxonMobil announced last week that it will expand its lubricant blending plant in Singapore to allow production of Mobil 1 engine oils.

Pertamina has expanded its production of viscosity modifiers to a second location - this one at its plant in East Java, Indonesia.

Malaysian oleochemicals company IOI Group agreed last week to purchase Germanys Cremer Oleo GmbH for 89.4 million (U.S. $101.3 million).

Thailand's lubricant market shrank slightly in 2014 but is poised to resume growing thanks to continued expansion of its auto manufacturing industry, ...