Analysis of Global Lubricant Additives Market Growth in 2025
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2025-06-13
The global lubricant additives market reached approximately $17 billion in 2024. Entering 2025, the sector continues its robust growth trend, with the market size expected to approach $20 billion and a stable annual growth rate of 6%-8%. This growth pattern is driven by both the sustained support from the traditional fuel vehicle aftermarket and the emerging demand explosions in new energy vehicles and industrial sectors, demonstrating a multi-dimensional industrial transformation.
Traditional Fuel Vehicle Market: Demand Cornerstone and Technological Iteration
The traditional fuel vehicle aftermarket remains the mainstay of lubricant additive demand, accounting for about 50% of the total. Despite the rising penetration of new energy vehicles globally, the stock of fuel vehicles still exceeds 1 billion units, and the upgrading of engine technologies (such as the popularization of turbocharging and direct injection) drives the performance iteration of additives. For instance, the newly approved API SQ standard requires additives to enhance low-speed pre-ignition (LSPI) resistance, prompting the upgrading of detergent-dispersant and anti-wear agent formulations.
New Energy Vehicles: Incremental Track and Segmental Breakthroughs
Global new energy vehicle sales are expected to increase by 30%-40% year-on-year in 2025, driving three emerging demand scenarios in the lubricant additives market. In terms of motor lubrication, the popularization of flat-wire motors and 800V high-voltage platforms has spurred demand for low-viscosity, high-insulation greases.
Industrial Sector: Equipment Upgrading Drives Demand Transformation
The industrial sector accounts for about 30% of total lubricant additive demand. As factory equipment evolves toward high efficiency, precision, and continuous operation, demand shows a high-end trend. Additionally, clean energy equipment such as wind power and photovoltaics has seen a surge in demand for long-life, low-maintenance lubrication solutions, prompting additive companies to develop products suitable for extreme climatic conditions. The demand upgrading in the industrial sector is pushing the lubricant additives industry toward specialization and customization.
In 2025, the global lubricant additives market is undergoing profound changes under the combined influence of traditional and emerging demands. Enterprises need to keep up with technological trends and increase R&D investment to seize opportunities in the fierce market competition while providing strong support for the sustainable development of various industries.
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Analysis of Global Lubricant Additives Market Growth in 2025
The global lubricant additives market reached approximately $17 billion in 2024. Entering 2025, the sector continues its robust growth trend, with the market size expected to approach $20 billion and a stable annual growth rate of 6%-8%. This growth pattern is driven by both the sustained support from the traditional fuel vehicle aftermarket and the emerging demand explosions in new energy vehicles and industrial sectors, demonstrating a multi-dimensional industrial transformation.
Growth in China's Lubricant Exports to Africa
In recent years, Chinese lubricants have shone remarkably in the African market, emerging as a dazzling star. Data serves as the most compelling evidence: in 2025, China's lubricant exports to Africa surged by 46% year-on-year, with the export volume doubling in just three years. It is expected to exceed the 300,000-ton threshold within the year, reaching a value of $82.3 million—equivalent to providing full-vehicle maintenance services for 2 million pickup trucks. Behind this growth lies the dual driving force of Chinese lubricant enterprises' precise market strategies and technological innovation.
A brief discussion on the cleaning agent of lubricating oil additive
With the development of industrial technology, modern equipment requirements of high speed, high performance, high automation, high efficiency and long life, in terms of lubrication simply with mineral oil lubrication materials has been difficult to meet. Adding a small amount of other substances to a lubricating material can improve its performance, give it new characteristics, to meet the increasingly harsh use environment, these substances are called lubricating oil additives.
Main function and classification of dispersant lubricant additive （2）
The oil soluble group provided by the dispersant is larger than the purifier, which can effectively prevent the accumulation of carbon and colloidal material together.
Main function and classification of dispersant lubricant additive （1）
In the early stage, the widely used detergent dispersants in internal combustion engine oil are metallic sulfonates, alkyl phenols, phosphonates and alkyl salicylate, which are called metal detergent dispersants. Subsequently developed a metal-free additive, it has excellent dispersion properties, in order to distinguish from the former, people called it ash-free powder.
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