Regulations Specs & Testing

The new year marked the implementation in China of higher gasoline quality standards designed to help reduce air pollution. One observer warns that au ...

Gone are the days when licensees had to complete long and complicated forms,the American Petroleum Institute says upon launching its Engine Oil Licens ...

A North Carolina state agency issued an official ban on the sale of Everclear motor oil after tests found 95 samples failed to meet proper levels of v ...

Shell Wins Claim in Russia

December 11, 2013

The Moscow Arbitration Court for commercial disputes agreed that Vostok-Logistik imported Shell lubricants without authorization into Russia, a Shell ...

BRUSSELS – REACH is accomplishing most of its objectives thus far, according to the European Commission, but changes must be made to reduce the ...

EMA Requests PC-11 Delay

November 20, 2013

EMA, the Truck and Engine Manufacturers Association, has requested a delay in the first-licensing date for the next heavy-duty engine oil upgrade, PC- ...

Savant Group Ups its Ops

November 20, 2013

The Savant Group broke ground last week on a $3 million project to expand manufacturing, laboratory and training operations at its headquarters in Mid ...

In a settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency, Calumet Shreveport Lubricant and Waxes has agreed to pay a $326,000 civil penalty and to spe ...

U.K. Gets Lube Watchdog

November 13, 2013

BRUSSELS – The United Kingdom Lubricants Association recently launched Verification of Lubricant Specifications, a new membership organization d ...

One in Five Bulk Oils Bad

October 23, 2013

The American Petroleum Institutes annual motor oil testing program found almost one in five samples of bulk motor oil purchased from the North America ...

Michigan Banishes Bullseye

October 9, 2013

Michigan issued stop-use and stop-removal orders on oils from Bullseye Automotive Lubricants of Illinois this week, the states second such mandate in ...

Californias revised laws on the recyclability of plastic containers — enforceable as of January 2013 under the Rigid Plastic Packaging Container ...

HazCom Trained Yet?

October 2, 2013

As OSHAs Dec. 1 deadline for training looms, U.S. employers have just two more months to ensure employees are familiar with the new Globally Harmonize ...

ATIEL Updates Code of Practice

September 18, 2013

ATIEL, the European lubricants industrys technical association, released a new version of its Code of Practice, which provides guidance for developers ...

A Michigan agency on Sept. 12 announced stop-use and stop-removal orders for motor oils and transmission fluids from City Petroleum of Dearborn and St ...

The American Petroleum Institute is suing Bullseye Lubricants for alleged counterfeiting, trademark infringement, trademark dilution, false advertisin ...

Motor oil labeling guidelines have been updated once again, this time as the result of a unanimous vote at a National Conference on Weights and Measur ...

Health Canada is seeking comments on a proposal to repeal and replace its Controlled Products Regulations with new Hazardous Products Regulations to c ...

ExxonMobil opened a new Asia Pacific oil analysis laboratory at the companys Shanghai Technology Center in China. Signum, ExxonMobils oil analysis pr ...

The U.S. Department of Agricultures BioPreferred program finalized its 10th round of procurement regulations, which specify that engine crankcase oil ...