Malaysia has decided to mandate Euro 4 fuel standards by September 2015 and to progress to Euro 5 by 2020. Meanwhile, a requirement for fuels to conta ...

Japans Mitsui & Co. Ltd. will invest U.S. $44 million in Malaysian-owned oleochemical manufacturer Taiko Palm-Oleo (Zhangjiagang) Co. Ltd., located in ...

Indonesias state-owned Pertamina Lubricants has acquired 75 percent of Thai blender Amaco Production Co., an Amaco official told Lube Report Asia.

Chevron Oronite announced yesterday that it will install carboxylate capacity at its lubricant additive plant in Singapore.

Industry observers say biolubricants are unlikely to take off in Asia unless governments provide incentives or mandates for their use. Malaysia appear ...

Russia's Gazprom Neft Lubricants expanded its presence in Southeast Asia by signing a memorandum of cooperation and a supply deal with key Taiwanese a ...

Shandong Yuangen Petrochemical announced it is setting up operations to produce its Yuangen brand of lubricants in Singapore for distribution througho ...

Nynas announced last week the opening of a 32,000 cubic meter storage depot in Singapore, part of a plan to grow its naphthenic base oil business in t ...

Malaysias Petronas Lubricants International introduced the industrys first 0W-20 heavy-duty diesel engine oil in Italy last week after co-developing i ...

Myanmars consumption of medium- and high-grade lubricants has risen steadily the past five years and now accounts for 40 percent of the nations overal ...

Malaysian conglomerate UMW Holdings Bhd. says it has decided to build its third lubricant blending plant - a facility that would open near Port Klang, ...

Petronas announced new sales strategies and expansion plans for gaining market share in Thailand and India.

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 ...

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

Investments in oleochemicals projects in Malaysia have more than doubled during the first five months of 2014, the Malaysian Investment Development Au ...

Major Japanese lubricant companies, Idemitsu Kosan Co. and JX Nippon & Energy Corp., are following Japanese automobile manufacturers expansions in Tha ...

Malaysia will postpone its B5 biodiesel mandate for the whole country to the end of the year, according to the Ministry of Plantation Industries and C ...

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

An article in the July 22 issue reported incorrectly that Singapore had resolved to adopt the Euro VI emissions standard for diesel-powered heavy-duty ...