Southwest Research Institute is launching this month an industry consortium, Advanced Fluids for Electrified Vehicles, in what the institute called an ...

The Chinese government announced on April 25 that the parts of its China VI emission standard applying to heavy diesel vehicles will be implemented na ...

Electrically conductive layer deposits are emerging as a new corrosion concern in electric motors in hybrid and electric vehicles, and developing test ...

France’s lubricant consumption fell by more than 10% in in January, compared to the same month in 2020, ending a streak of five consecutive months o ...

Chinese lubricants marketer Jiangsu Lopal Tech recently exported its first batch of lubricants to Pakistan, which it said marked another step in its i ...

Asia’s Increasing Influence on the Global Lubes Market After a tumultuous year for lubricant markets around the globe, many uncertainties still l ...

As electric vehicles threaten to drain away the lifeblood of the lubricants industry—engine oil accounts for about 40% of the market—many companie ...

Electrifying  Well, 2021 is well underway, and it looks a lot like 2020, part 2. There are lots of projections, debates, discussing (and cussi ...

Hong Kong-based Yip’s Chemical Holdings Ltd.’s lubricants business reported higher operating profit and sales for the full year 2020, boosted by d ...

Royal Dutch Shell, one of the world’s largest lubricant producers, will install half a million charging points across the globe by 2025. The move ...

DuPont said last week that it is investing $40 million to construct specialty lubricant manufacturing units at existing factories in Japan and in the ...

Protecting the internal components of heavy-duty engines is about more than efficiency. High-quality engine oil is the lifeblood of the machine and wi ...

Is the ICE Decline an Upturn for Silicones? Unfamiliar to many in the industry, silicone base stocks have limited application in lubricants. The ri ...

How Does DEF Fit the Lubricants Business?  Diesel exhaust fluid made a big splash in the United States market just a little over ten years ago ...

General Motors, the world’s fifth-largest carmaker, said it would stop producing internal combustion engine vehicles by 2035 and “aspires” to be ...

Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd., Apar Industries’ transformer oil and specialty oil segment, Balmer Lawrie’s grease segment, Savita Oil and Maximus ...

Afton Chemical recorded higher operating profit in the fourth quarter, but weaker full-year results, while Valvoline posted increases in sales and ope ...

Transmission Fluids  Back in the Twilight Zone (also known as 2020), I commented on a note that I had received from Allen Comfort. For those o ...

Cometic Gasket announced yesterday the acquisition of Indiana-based Klotz Synthetic Lubricants, which blends and packages lubricants for the automotiv ...

Electric vehicle sales have been rising in the affluent countries of the West, where per capita income and environmental awareness are high. But wealt ...