Official Announcement: Kunlun Lubricant and BASF Tie the Knot

On October 16, PetroChina Lubricant Company and BASF (China) Co., Ltd. signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Beijing. Gong Weijun, Executive Deputy General Manager of PetroChina Lubricant Company, Yang Junjie, Deputy Chief Engineer, and Matthias Lang, Senior Director of Specialty Chemicals Business Management for Greater China at BASF (China) Co., Ltd., attended the signing ceremony and held in-depth talks. In the future, the two sides will carry out deep cooperation in a number of lubrication-related fields to achieve mutual technological benefit and win-win results.
Gong Weijun, Executive Deputy General Manager of PetroChina Lubricant Company, in talks with Matthias Lang, Senior Director of Specialty Chemicals Business Management for Greater China at BASF (China) Co., Ltd.
Both sides fully recognise and trust each other's capabilities and strength
Gong Weijun noted that over the years Kunlun Lubricant and BASF (China) Co., Ltd. have cooperated extensively in lubricant product development, additive supply and bench construction, and that BASF's vision for future cooperation fits very well with Kunlun Lubricant's development needs. Kunlun Lubricant endorses BASF's path of innovation and admires BASF's ability to analyse future markets and uncover growth potential. In the future, Kunlun Lubricant hopes to continuously expand the depth and breadth of its cooperation with BASF (China) Co., Ltd., explore new areas of cooperation, give play to their respective advantages, provide more opportunities for the development of both sides, and achieve common progress and common development.
Yang Junjie, Deputy Chief Engineer of PetroChina Lubricant Company, and Matthias Lang, Senior Director of Specialty Chemicals Business Management for Greater China at BASF (China) Co., Ltd., signing the strategic cooperation agreement
It is understood that over the past ten years Kunlun Lubricant and BASF (China) Co., Ltd. have maintained a good cooperative relationship, one that can be described as a strong alliance.
A well-matched pair that communicates more smoothly
Over the years, with the brand philosophy of "military-grade quality, a pillar of the great nation", Kunlun Lubricant has continued to deepen its work in products, technology and services, firmly occupying a leading position in the domestic lubrication industry. In terms of products, Kunlun Lubricant has successively launched the Kunlun Tianrun, Kunlun Tianwei and Kunlun Star series, which are widely praised by users; in terms of technology, Kunlun Lubricant filled the gap in the lubricant industry's national science and technology awards, won 34 provincial and ministerial science and technology progress awards, achieved nearly 400 research results and applied for more than 100 national patents, with obvious technological advantages; in terms of brand, it carried out a brand strategy transformation and upgrade in 2018, shifting from a production-oriented to a service-oriented company and from a business-oriented to a platform-based one; in terms of service, it launched a long-mileage solution, opening up new ideas for the development of the industry and taking an innovative step in the integrated "product + service" development model.
BASF Group of Germany is the world's largest chemical company and has been rated by the US business magazine Fortune as the "world's most admired chemical company", with business fields covering chemicals, plastics, functional chemicals, agricultural chemicals, food chemicals, oil and gas and many other areas. As a subsidiary of BASF Group, BASF (China) Co., Ltd. also covers oil and gas, chemicals and many other fields, and has considerable influence in the domestic chemical industry.
This time, the two sides reached further deep cooperation: Kunlun Lubricant will give play to its advantages in products, technology and services to jointly advance lubricant product upgrading and technological innovation with BASF (China) Co., Ltd. As a strategic partner, BASF (China) Co., Ltd. will support Kunlun Lubricant in technology, products and solutions. The two sides will complement each other's strengths and, through cooperation, promote progress in lubrication technology and the development of the industry.
Leaders of PetroChina Lubricant Company and BASF (China) Co., Ltd. posing for a group photo
Grateful for everyone's good wishes, the lubrication field will become better still
In the future, the two sides will take this cooperation as an opportunity to continuously strengthen information communication and technical exchange, cooperate in various fields, and, through a strong alliance and complementary resources, actively promote the internationalisation of Chinese lubrication, jointly providing users with better lubrication experiences and services.