Automotive Lubricants

Greasing BEVs

June 14, 2023

What challenges and opportunities is the imminent transition to EVs offering the grease industry?

Valvoline completed the buyback of $1 billion-worth of its common shares last week, giving the company more boardroom control. A stock analyst said th ...

A Japanese university research group proposed a method combining machine learning and molecular dynamics calculations to evaluate the frictional prope ...

Focused on Performance and Efficiency Many of the pain points caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have now eased for the heavy-duty engine oil segment, ...

Lubes’n’Greases discussed the looming introduction of PC-12 with New Category Development Team Chairperson Karin Haumann.

Police in the Brazilian state of Goias, in a joint operation with government agencies, on May 22 seized more than 4,000 liters of engine oil at a dist ...

France’s finished lubricant consumption fell 13% to 45,297 metric tons in March, pushing demand for the first quarter to a 5% decline, according to ...

Gross profit for Nigerian blender MRS Oil’s lubricants segment skyrocketed more than 20 fold in the fourth quarter, on a slight decrease in sales re ...

India’s automotive lubricant market has a new player – the country’s largest manufacturer of braking systems. Brakes India Ltd. announced its en ...

Virtually no grease is recycled, it was disclosed at the European Lubricating Greases Institute’s 33rd annual general meeting and conference in Amst ...

Domestic lubricant demand in Germany declined 8% to 51,416 tons in February, with steep decreases occuring in metalworking oils, machine oils, hydraul ...

The impact of electric vehicles on the lubricants industry will be different in Asia than in Europe and North America because parts of the former regi ...

Eugene Tan discusses the challenges faced by Asia on the road to vehicle electrification and its lifeline to automotive lube blenders.

The Union of the European Lubricants Industry announced this month that it helped resolve a complaint about Mercedes Benz saying that customers were r ...

Lubricant consumption in France decreased to 41,273 tons in February, 2% less than the same month last year, Paris-based Professional Lubricants Cente ...

Italian energy company Eni said in its annual report that its wholesale lubricant sales in Italy fell 38% and that its combined retail and wholesale s ...

Russian demand for automotive engine oils stagnated at around 414,000 metric tons in 2022, with the lion’s share bought and stockpiled for future us ...

MRS Oil Nigeria Plc reported that gross profit for its lubricant segment fell 64% in 2022 due to negative impacts of inflation. The segment earned 367 ...

Germany’s domestic lubricant demand fell 16% year on year to 46,070 metric tons in January, with hydraulic oils and metalworking oils showing the st ...

Grease manufacturers and end users are closer to having another simple manual device to quickly inspect samples of lubricating greases and forecast at ...