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 ...

The Asia-Pacific region accounts for around 70 percent of the global two-wheeler market, said an Infineum International Ltd. presenter in Stuttgart, G ...

Small-to-medium businesses, particularly in Africa, are being squeezed by the cost and limited availability of bulk liquid storage. One cost-effective ...

Choosing the right technology and deciding what base stock to produce has become a complicated process with significant financial implications. While ...

Many lubricants depend on antioxidants to protect the base oil against severe oxidation and degradation. A method called voltammetry provides a way to ...

Hybrids are garnering an increasing share of the automotive market. Lubricant suppliers, in partnership with original equipment manufacturers, will he ...

Agriculture and mining consume about 40 percent of Zambias lubricant volume, 80 percent of which is imported. While the majority of the market is API ...

Emeka Umejei reports on the effects of currency devaluations in sub-Saharan Africa.

WD-40 reported net income of $11.3 million for the quarter ending Feb. 28, up 10 percent from a year earlier, with net sales up 3 percent at $97.3 mil ...

Russian lubricant demand fell more than 10 percent to 1.5 million metric tons in 2014 due to sluggish industrial output and lower new car sales, a Mos ...