Foreign lubricant brands show every confidence in the Chinese lubricant market and continue to increase their investment in China. Take Shell for example, Besides building and expanding lubricant capacity in 2011-2012, it put the advanced Zhuhai-based lubricant technology service center into use in 2012. Another case in point is Total (Tianjin), whose 200kt/a lubricant blending plant started construction as early as 2011 and is expected to be put into production in May 2013.