Electric motor failure in hybrid buses caused by copper corrosion leads to the development of more effective e-transmission fluids.   The tran ...

The lubricant supply chain is both long and complex, and no group is more aware of that than lubricant distributors. Because distributors deal with a ...

Editor’s Note: The terms metalworking fluid and metal removal fluid are used synonymously throughout this story.   Metalworking fluids play ...

You’ll remember that my column in June discussed the new heavy-duty engine oil category, currently called PC-12. It must be the year of new standard ...

A team of researchers from a number of companies and institutions seeks to turn plastic waste into lubricants, including hydraulic fluids and greases. ...

A panel of judges within the United States Patent and Trademark Office ruled last week that Valvoline may proceed with a complaint attempting to preve ...

Iranian regulators recently authorized a 41% hike in prices for gasoline and diesel automotive engine oils. The country’s Consumer and Producer Prot ...

Lubrication and protection of ship engines became much more complex after implementation of IMO 2020 fuel regulations, making testing ever more import ...

India implemented a temporary cut in the duty charged on palm oil imports, part of an effort to offset a sharp run-up in prices over the past year. An ...

Aerosol manufacturer PLZ Aeroscience has agreed to purchase Champion Brands LLC, an independent producer of automotive and industrial lubricants and r ...

Russian oil major Rosneft sold 1.05 million tons of base oils and lubricants in 2020, 4.5% less than the year before, according to the company’s a ...

A court last month ordered that transformer oil rerefiner Hydrodec Group’s dormant Australian subsidiary be wound down to insolvency, calling it the ...

Japanese specialty lubricant manufacturer Moresco Corp. reported higher sales of specialty lubricants and lower sales of synthetics oils for its first ...

WD-40 reported net income of $21 million for the quarter ending May 31, a 45% increase from a year earlier, while net sales for its maintenance produc ...

Gazprom Neft’s lubricant sales stood flat last year because of Russia’s stagnated industrial output and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on both d ...

Egypt’s Misr Petroleum has reached an agreement for the company’s joint venture with Emirates National Oil Co. to produce finished lubricants at M ...

Lubricant demand in Spain this year through May was up 33% from the same period in 2020 – during which pandemic restrictions and lockdowns had the m ...

Battery-powered cars are now synonymous in the public consciousness with zero-emissions transport. There is another way of powering a car without wait ...

GP Global disclosed recently that it has tabled plans to build a lubricant blending plant in Saronda, India, because of economic uncertainties stemmin ...

Japan’s finished lubricants consumption grew 32% in May, compared to the same month last year. It marked the fourth consecutive month this year that ...