Since January of 2020, Indonesia has required the content of diesel sold within its borders to be 30% biodiesel by weight – the highest such mandate ...

Electric motor failure in hybrid buses caused by copper corrosion leads to the development of more effective e-transmission fluids.   The tran ...

You’ll remember that my column in June discussed the new heavy-duty engine oil category, currently called PC-12. It must be the year of new standard ...

A panel of judges within the United States Patent and Trademark Office ruled last week that Valvoline may proceed with a complaint attempting to preve ...

Lubrication and protection of ship engines became much more complex after implementation of IMO 2020 fuel regulations, making testing ever more import ...

A court last month ordered that transformer oil rerefiner Hydrodec Group’s dormant Australian subsidiary be wound down to insolvency, calling it the ...

Regulations Ramp Up for Food-grade Lubes COVID-19 may have caused widespread disruption this past year, affecting output and pushing the suppl ...

The long-awaited 2021 ACEA light-duty engine oil specifications are finally in the hands of lubricant blenders, marketers and original equipment manuf ...

Belarus’ base oils effectively stopped flowing to the West last week after the European Union imposed sanctions against the country. The EU was reta ...

As the marine shipping industry transitions to engines using new fuel types that generate less carbon dioxide, cylinder oil development will need to c ...

The German subsidiaries of Seat and Skoda have added engine oil specifications to owners manuals of their vehicles, as part of a cease and desist sett ...

Automotive I’ve been in this business for a long time. For many years, the introduction of a new oil category was based on needs expressed by ori ...

People from many organizations must come together to advance lubricant specifications, ensuring that engines old and new continue to be protected. The ...

There are over 140,000 miles of freight and passenger railroad tracks in both the United States and Europe. As train wheels spin, move and grind to a ...

The European Automobile Manufacturers Association published a long-awaited update to its passenger car engine oil specifications on April 30 – more ...

A crossover test will allow quick, easy and inexpensive grease particle counts  An industry working group is nearing completion of a fast, sim ...

The Chinese government announced on April 25 that the parts of its China VI emission standard applying to heavy diesel vehicles will be implemented na ...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering a 2019 action that sought to end a policy allowing California to regulate motor veh ...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency is asking for additional public input on final rules for five chemicals deemed persistent, bioaccumu ...

A representative for a new automaker association unveiled its plan yesterday to create a framework to develop global specifications for engine oils an ...