Regulations Specs & Testing

The New Category Development Team has locked in a strict timeline for creating PC-11, the proposed category upgrade for heavy-duty engine oils. The m ...

STUTTGART, Germany – Mercedes-Benz has adopted a wide-ranging upgrade of service-fill engine oil specifications for its passenger cars and heavy ...

Feds Target Lube Exports

March 28, 2012

The U.S. Department of Commerce has ordered a temporary halt to exports by lubricant manufacturer Delfin Group USA, alleging that the company violated ...

Philippine law enforcement officials confiscated 8,878 bottles of counterfeit Castrol lubricants worth U.S. $37,000 during a raid, the nations state-r ...

HazComm Standard Revised

March 21, 2012

OSHA yesterday released the final rule revising its Hazard Communication Standard, to align with the United Nations global chemical labeling system. ...

LONDON – With the help of lubricants ally BP Castrol, Ford has created a proprietary engine oil for its innovative 1.0-liter, three-cylinder Eco ...

The Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association and WD-40 are at odds over a California Senate bill to amend South Coast Air Quality Management Di ...

Milacron and subsidiary Cimcool have sued Stough Tool Sales for marketing pink industrial fluids, alleging trademark infringement and unfair competiti ...

Dover, EPA Settle CP Violation

February 15, 2012

Dover Chemical will pay $1.4 million in civil penalties for unauthorized manufacture of chlorinated paraffins at facilities in Dover, Ohio, and Hammon ...

Petroplus Holdings AG will file for insolvency, and the refiner was granted administration orders in the United Kingdom. Petroplus said Friday it woul ...

Ford will recall more than 244,000 vehicles because brake fluid could leak from a defective brake master cylinder reservoir cap and lead to electrical ...

A federal judge in Louisiana sentenced the city of Pineville to a $15,000 fine and one year unsupervised probation Jan. 4 for the illegal discharge of ...

Shell Lubricants Technology formed a two-year research and development partnership with a laboratory at Chinas Tsinghua University, to focus on lubric ...

PARIS – Following a major reorganization, the European REACH Grease Thickeners Consortium is on target to submit its REACH dossier for the most ...

ROBO Is Ready to Roll

July 22, 2009

ASTM International has published RohMaxs ROBO, a bench test designed to replace the more expensive Sequence IIIGA engine test in the new ILSAC GF-5 en ...

REACH List Tops 150,000

December 24, 2008

On Dec. 19, the European Chemicals Agency published the list of all chemicals that have been filed with the European Union’s REACH program, repr ...