Industry Associations & Organizations

ILSAC GF-7 is here. Steve Haffner outlines the tools used to deploy the new specification.

Authorities in the United Kingdom are mulling the imposition of import tariffs on certain engine oils and hydraulic fluids as a potential outcome of a ...

Food-Grade for Thought?

July 20, 2023

The term food-grade lubricant has been generally accepted by the lubricants industry for some time, but perhaps it is no longer the best term for the ...

One United Kingdom-based organization is doing its part to ensure that lubricant standards are met or exceeded.

NLGI and ELGI’s grease working groups stay busy. What are some of the latest and most pressing things on their to-do lists?

The new president of the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers said such professional organizations can play meaningful roles in helping i ...

The American Petroleum Institute’s newly formed sustainability task force is working to create a recommended practice document on lubricant life cyc ...

Lube Report speaks to Mike Damiani, president of the Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association about goals for the Washington, D.C.-based trade ...

Are Additives Keeping Up?

January 1, 2022

As the lubricants industry enters a transformative period, no segment of the industry is spared. Discover how European additives associations are plan ...

Regulations Ramp Up for Food-grade Lubes COVID-19 may have caused widespread disruption this past year, affecting output and pushing the suppl ...

United Kingdom-based Verification of Lubricant Standards announced last week that it reported an engine oil marketed by HyperDrive Lubricants to the N ...

GF-6, SP Hit Market May 1

April 29, 2020

First licensing for ILSAC GF-6A and GF-6B and API SP is scheduled to begin May 1. Despite the Covid-19 pandemic’s impacts, hundreds of licensed GF-6 ...

The Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association is reaching out to members and governments to inform them that lube blenders are considered essent ...

The newly created Australian Lubricant Association plans to set up processes to verify labels and standardization of lube products sold in Australia, ...

Adding its weight to recent efforts to rid the tractor lubricant market of poor quality products, ASTM International announced last week that it will ...

The National Lubricating Grease Institute yesterday announced a collaboration with the Center for Quality Assurance to define future grease specificat ...

The API Lubricants Group closed the last key Base Oil Interchange/Viscosity Grade Read-Across task force ballots and indicated full approval on June 1 ...

Amidst efforts to rid the market of 303 tractor hydraulic fluids, the Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association has begun work to encourage deve ...

It has taken over seven years, many test development delays and missed schedules, but the end is finally in sight for ILSAC GF-6.