Regulations Specs & Testing

Maintaining old tests and making new ones back serviceable.

Dexron-VI: The Test of Time

September 26, 2025

A 20-year look back at the development of a landmark automatic transmission fluid specification.

Briefly Noted

September 22, 2025

WearCheck, a condition-monitoring specialist based in Durban, South Africa, launched a new website for its lubricant-management division, Lubrigard. T ...

Peruvian lubricant supplier Viskosil Industries won a trademark infringement judgement last month against competitor Vistony, which was found to have ...

Confusion looms over Algeria’s lubricant market this week after the reported lifting of a monopoly on the import of lubes and other products.

Stay Ready

August 3, 2025

Monitoring lubricants, fuels and coolants in emergency generators helps keep them operating in times of critical need.

Rapidly evolving global regulatory policies are changing the electric vehicle landscape, and blenders must adapt and remain agile.

Market Monitor

July 9, 2025

When Verification of Lubricant Specifications was formed in 2013, there was clearly a lack of understanding in some areas of the marketplace about fin ...

ATIEL and UEIL released guidance on how greases and lubricants can be managed at the end of their functional lives.

ILSAC GF-7 is here. Steve Haffner outlines the tools used to deploy the new specification.

Al Yates examines how oil analysis and filter debris analysis are vital to wind turbine reliability programs.

Europe’s oleochemicals industry is urging lawmakers in Brussels to widen the scope of the European Union Deforestation Regulation.

Mannol brake fluid fails second round of tests to ensure it meets life-saving performance claims.

API Is Not Alone

April 30, 2025

Who are the major players in motor oil specification development right now, and how are they impacting the lubricants industry?

ATIEL launched two new resources designed to support lubricant marketers in aligning with ACEA oil sequences.

Lubrizol CV1150 heavy duty motor oil additive package meets China’s GB D1 specification for heavy duty engines.

TotalEnergies opened an oil condition monitoring laboratory and closed out operations in Manilla.

PC-12 Changes Are Coming

February 3, 2025

PC-12 is in the works. How may the new category differ from its predecessor?

Two substances used in the production of lubricants and greases were added to the European Chemicals Agency’s candidate list of substances of very h ...

Certas Lubricant Solution was quick to withdraw a legacy automotive lubricant after a Verification of Lubrication Specifications investigation upheld ...