Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission sanctioned Tianhe Chemicals Group Ltd. and its executive director this week, finding them culpable for ...

Malaysia aims to fully switch to B20 diesel by the end of this year, according to a Reuters report, completing a transition that was originally schedu ...

The changing landscape for lubricants and greases means that bench tests must also evolve. How are bench tests supporting solutions to new lubrication ...

President Joseph Biden’s administration announced a series of fuel economy standards this week, a move viewed as further spurring the nation’s shi ...

The years-long process of writing the next heavy-duty diesel engine oil category began last week when the American Petroleum Institute’s Lubricants ...

Modern lubricant performance specifications usually contain a number of bench and engine tests, but an official with a German firm suggested recently ...

Lubricant bench tests are small-scale tests examining a specific aspect of a lubricant’s performance. Faster and cheaper than full-scale tests, they ...

Quantifying Tackiness and Adhesion in Greases Standardization of test methods in the lubricants industry is neither a quick nor an easy process.&nb ...

How About Another Engine Test? As you all know, I think we may overdo the engine test requirements for engine oils. I’ve long advocated for conso ...

The American Petroleum Institute last week published an updated version of API 1525A, a document setting guidelines for managing the chain of custody ...

Eleven automakers – the majority headquartered in Japan and South Korea – have joined the International Fluids Consortium, the fledgling organizat ...

In an effort to discourage tax-dodging mixing with diesel, Israeli officials signed an order last week to impose an excise tax on lubricants and solve ...

The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare issued a report last month flagging concerns about seven chemicals, including two that are used by ...

A perfect storm has been gathering in the lubricants industry for some time: There has been increasing pressure from governments to lower vehicle emis ...

The American Petroleum Institute closed provisional licensing, invoked in March for most active North American industry heavy-duty diesel engine oil s ...

The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development issued a stop-use and stop-removal order on REV 360 brand products from Orion Lubricants, ...

The European Commission plans again next year to narrow an import duty exemption for API Group II base oils from nations that do not have free trade a ...

Several automakers formally requested that the American Petroleum Institute’s Lubricants Group develop a supplement to the API SP specification to i ...

Nigeria’s Department of Petroleum Resources is collaborating with the Standards Organization of Nigeria to curb supply of substandard lubricants in ...

United Kingdom-based Verification of Lubricant Specifications said it has resolved a complaint against German automotive parts supplier SCT-Vertriebs ...