The lubricants industry faces rising pressure to ensure machine reliability while meeting stringent environmental, health, and safety standards. With ...

How do synthetic base stocks help automotive lubricant formulators to meet ever-increasing standards? Pennzoil’s Sean Nguyen weighs in.

As China pushes to be a major player in global high-tech industries such as artificial intelligence, polyalphaolefin base stocks have more opportuniti ...

VBASE Oil Co. has designed and evaluated a new family of high-performance sustainable base stocks. How can they be used, and how do they differ from t ...

Demand for synthetic lubricants has grown over the past few decades. Steve Haffner explores whether synthetics are becoming commoditized amidst this g ...

Discover how extended producer responsibility in India might affect rerefining in the country, how the automotive industry is impacting base oil deman ...

Discover how extended producer responsibility in India might affect rerefining in the country, how the automotive industry is impacting base oil deman ...

Sean Nguyen of Pennzoil outlines some of the most prominent trends affecting automotive lubricants, including the uptake of synthetic formulations.

How do different base stocks contribute to improved grease performance? Are synthetics the best option, or have mineral oils been holding their ground ...

Japanese specialty lubricant manufacturer Moresco Corp. reported higher sales of specialty lubricants and slightly higher sales of synthetic oils for ...

PAOs, Past and Present Polyalphaolefins will be in the spotlight at the next National Inventors Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Margaret Wu, a che ...

India is a big country with a big thirst for base oils. This traditionally Group I market is continuing its shift toward higher-performance base stock ...

Are the synthetic and naphthenic understudies to paraffinic base oils ready to steal the limelight?

Although global lubricants demand is consistently flat, ester-based lubricants will grow at an average rate of 6 percent for the next several years, a ...

Demand is growing for synthetic greases. Wilfried Bartz says these products have impressive strengths - and some weaknesses - and that users should co ...