Steve Swedberg gives his takeaways regarding product proliferation in the automotive market.

Elbow room in Western Australia's lithium mining business is shrinking with the entrance of U.S. company Albemarle.

Does Formula E have what it takes to lure in an audience and keep it engaged with the new electric motorsport format? After its fifth season, it looks ...

Bans on internal combustion engine vehicles are gradually sweeping across Europe. Their practicalities are a point of discussion.

Norway leads Europe in the number of new four-wheel electrified vehicle registrations. The extent of the threat posed by EVs to auto lubes will play o ...

Concerned that their industries are falling behind Asia, Germany and France announced initiatives in November to help European companies jump into the ...

The average price this year for an oil change using five quarts of semi-synthetic oil rose 11.4 percent to just under $48 this year, while the cost fo ...

Modern grease formulation is a balancing act of performance, service life and energy efficiency. Two companies give insight into the drivers of innova ...

The Freedonia Group and Kline and Co. agree about the biggest factors that will affect automotive lubricant markets in the Americas in coming years, b ...

ExxonMobil invested in a startup company offering on-demand fuel delivery and mobile vehicle car care service - including oil changes - to help carve ...

Afton Chemical had decreased profits last year, despite enjoying a strong fourth quarter, and Valvoline reported a decrease in operating income but an ...

Global bright stock demand was 2.7 million tons in 2017, but is expected to decline by approximately 250,000 tons by 2027, said Kline & Co. in a w ...

Bucking the trend of on-demand, on-location mobile oil change services commonly offered in Indonesia, Pertamina Lubricants said its having success dra ...

A scientific investigation into the mysteries of lubricating grease degradation and entropy has been awarded the NLGI Research Grant for 2017, the Nat ...

Coolants Plus, the marketer of Starfire brand lubricants, announced last week that it had purchased Scot Lubricants Inc., giving the company its first ...

The average cost a quick lube charged for an oil change using five quarts of semi-synthetic oil dropped more than 20 percent to a bit more than $43, w ...

For almost a century, the cone penetrometer has taken the measure of grease stiffness. Its easy, cheap, fast--and wildly overrated, critics say.

Japans JXTG Group will convert all of its 2,800 Esso- and Mobil-branded fuel stations in the country to Eneos by 2020, but will continue selling Exxon ...

Motorcycle and leisure boat sales are driving oil trends for machines used in work and play.

On a recent Friday afternoon in the downtown district of Jiangsu provinces capital city, Nanjing, several customers strolled through Chinese retailer ...