Solid Lubricants

Researchers collaborating in four U.S. universities have developed a new biodegradable, nontoxic solid lubricant.

Briefly Noted

September 22, 2025

WearCheck, a condition-monitoring specialist based in Durban, South Africa, launched a new website for its lubricant-management division, Lubrigard. T ...

“Greases are absolutely the space lubricant of choice,” Christopher DellaCorte, senior technologist of tribology at NASA, asserted during the keyn ...

Cold extrusion lubricants can kick up a lot of dust. A replacement for zinc stearate powders may be able to clear the air.

Design changes made to create a quiet, comfortable environment for drivers and passengers allow new noises to be heard when plastic, leather and rubbe ...

Japans Toyo Drilube will expand its facility in Vietnam in April and consolidate its two facilities in Thailand by June 2016, the company told Lube Re ...

Lubrication Made Solid

May 27, 2014

Standard greases and lubricants can easily handle most ball or roller bearing applications. But more demanding environments may need solid but elastic ...

Getting Moly-fied

May 22, 2014

Long prized by grease formulators as extreme-pressure agents, molybdenum is increasingly tapped for its friction-easing properties.

Antifriction coatings help reduce interior car noise and provide a soft, silky feel to controls. And they last for the life of the car under the harsh ...

Pastes Poised for Growth

April 25, 2014

Lubricating pastes may be a low-volume category, but where used they solve tricky problems such as heavy loads and potential for wash-out. An industry ...

Henkel last week informed the 89 employees at Acheson Colloids Port Huron, Mich., plant that the site will close at the end of 2010, due to severe und ...

More Moly from Chile

November 28, 2007

Xstrata Coppers North Chile Division on Monday announced commencement of feasibility studies on an expansion that would more than double molybdenum pr ...

MetalCorp Ltd. last week announced the start of drilling at its Playter molybdenum-silver project on the western end of its Big Lake property in north ...

Idaho General Mines Inc. announced Monday that it has filed a plan of operations with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, a key step in realizing its ...