Automotive Lubricants

EV Growth Amidst Uncertainty

September 3, 2024

There have been conflicting messages about the health and prospects of the electric vehicle market, but many projections still call for growth.

Law enforcement over the weekend seized drums of counterfeit Castrol engine oil and packaging during a raid in the city of Bhadohi, Uttar Predesh prov ...

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced the state had settled with Valvoline to resolve allegations of unfair labor practices at the oil chan ...

Steve Haffner explores how stakeholder alignment for ILSAC GF-7 has differed from that of past categories.

Cyprus Lube Sales Up

July 30, 2024

Cyprus sold 111 metric tons of lubricants from filling stations dotted around the southern part of the island in June.

Grease production in India will ramp up by almost 37% over the next six years, according to a Mumbai-based producer. Speaking at a recent industry co ...

Lubricant sales in Thailand are expected to recover to pre-Covid levels, said an official from the Department of Energy Business in Thailand. Thail ...

As electric vehicles become more popular, engine oil demand is expected to erode. But perhaps EV lubricants will provide other opportunities for growt ...

The trajectory of lubricant demand post-COVID might not be as abnormal as the industry once thought it to be.

China’s grease industry continued shifting away from lithium soap thickeners, according to the latest survey from the United States-based National L ...

Shell announced last week that it has completed an expansion of its grease manufacturing plant in Bangkok, tripling the facility’s production capaci ...

Lucas Oil last week announced that it will open a grease production unit at its lubricant factory  in Indiana later this summer.

Sales at oil change and lubrication shops in the United States rose 14% to $8 billion in 2023, continuing a trend of year-on-year increases since decl ...

The United Kingdom’s British Trade Remedy Authority has initiated an investigation into alleged dumping of low-priced lubricant products originating ...

Malaysia’s Petronas Lubricants International has tied up with United Kingdom-based Iceotope to develop coolants for data centers, becoming the lates ...

Oil and gas producer Occidental Petroleum announced a joint venture with a Berkshire Hathaway business to extract high-purity lithium from geothermal ...

Spain during 2023 rerefined 78% of its collected waste lubricants into base stocks, the non-profit organization charged with managing waste lubricants ...

German lubricant maker Eurolub GmbH said it has acquired Bizol, another German lube marketer, to expand its automotive service chemicals products line ...

KEMAT explains why polyisobutylene is ideal for use in certain automotive lubricant applications.

South Africa’s Central Energy Fund SOC has finalized an agreement to buy the Sapref oil refinery in Durban, from Shell and BP – transacting a site ...