Russias largest lube producers are trumpeting the new government policy of import substitution, urging users to switch to locally made products as a c ...

Dick Beercheck explores the possibility of saving energy by improving the efficiency of greases used in electric motors.

Totals subsidiary in Pakistan recently launched a mobile, on-call oil change service for car owners in Karachi.

Swiss metalworking fluids manufacturer Blaser Swisslube AG opened a research and development center in Hong Kong last week to help it grow in the Asia ...

Nigerian lubricant producer Conoil will invest 5 billion naira (U.S. $2.5 million) on an additional blending plant in Lagos, with capacity of 60,000 m ...

India is the worlds second-largest market for two-wheelers, and it is on track to move past China in the next couple decades, a trend that translates ...

BARCELONA, Spain – Scale and wear particles are the most common sources of contaminants in greases, along with burned soap, dirt and sand, a wor ...

Malaysias Petronas Dagangan Bhd. recently signed an eight-year, 51 million ringgit (U.S. $14 million) lubricants supply contract with Malaysian port o ...

With 240 million existing vehicles and booming sales, China is a crucial automotive lubes market, Infineum says. However, suppliers must cater to the ...

Now that its spring, Steve Swedberg reminds us, a car lovers fancy turns to auto maintenance.

If youre tackling some spring cleaning, Tom Glenn suggests starting with the dusty specifications encrusted on heavy-duty engine oil labels.

Woven from strands of steel, wire ropes face corrosion and abrasion throughout their lifetimes. Here's how lubricants help keep them safely strung.

In the maritime industry, cylinder lube oil can eat up to 60 percent of a vessel's technical budget. To trim this cost, ships need to apply the right ...

Imagine a floating mini-factory at sea, capable of blending marine lubricants on the spot for any vessel it encounters. Sound like Jules Verne? Read o ...

If the federal agency prevails, some of the most effective extreme-pressure agents in metalworking will vanish from the U.S. market by next May.

Real-world examples show how oil analysis averted equipment damage and downtime, by raising the alarm on lubricant chemistry, wear particles and conta ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency stated it could eliminate mid- and long-chain chlorinated paraffins in U.S. commerce as early as May 2016 usi ...

Mexicos lubricant demand grew about 2 percent in 2013, industry insiders say, and that plus market liberalization have been enough to attract increase ...

BP and Caltex last week dissolved Australasian Lubricant Manufacturing Co., a 15-year joint venture that makes about 50 percent of the nations lubrica ...

Asia-Pacific is thirstier for lubricants than any other region in the world, but tapping into it from the outside presents numerous challenges, an exe ...