Regulations Specs & Testing

Agreements Near for GF-6

February 6, 2019

Automakers and the lubricant industry are closer to wrapping up the long-delayed ILSAC GF-6 passenger car motor oil category after the International L ...

Marine lubricant demand remained on its steady - if slightly declining - course in 2018, totaling an estimated 2.3 million tons, according to consulta ...

Registration requirements for two lubricant and grease components, dicyclohexylamine and morpholine, took effect in Japan Jan. 1, due to an amendment ...

Curacaos government suspended its impending selection of a new operator for its Isla Refinery until a probe into corruption allegations regarding the ...

The Philippines Bureau of Customs implemented a second tranche of its Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion Law, taxing a number of products, incl ...

The Islamic Republic is a key supplier to its regions Group I and crude markets. Will fresh sanctions undermine that position?

Marketing Matters

January 18, 2019

Uzi Brier emphasizes the pitfalls of product liability.

An American Chemistry Council committee proposed a plan last week for the ILSAC GF-6 passenger car engine oil category to be completed and brought to ...

South Korea's new Act on Safety Control of Consumer Chemical Products and Biocides regulation took effect Jan. 1. Industry sources disagree about whet ...

The European Unions revised Ecolabel standard for lubricants that took into effect in early November provides new criteria to include functionality in ...

The China 6 vehicular emissions standard - the strictest in the world, according to the countrys central government - gets an 18-month head start next ...

Automaker and oil company representatives say their biggest concerns about European use of engine tests developed in North America have been alleviate ...

The European Automobile Manufacturers Association has delayed approval of its ACEA 2018 engine oil sequences because of work that still needs to be do ...

State-owned PTT Oil and Retail Business Co. is preparing for listing on The Stock Exchange of Thailand next year and expects to grow its lubricant bus ...

PC-12 Appears on Horizon

December 19, 2018

North Americas auto and oil industries could begin work as early as next year on their next heavy-duty engine oil category, aiming to adopt PC-12 by 2 ...

Iran's place in global API Group I base oil markets is proving surprisingly resilient despite last month's snap-back of United States sanctions target ...

Taming an Unruly Test

December 14, 2018

A critical test for wheel-bearing greases has been returning wildly inconsistent results for decades. Could it soon be brought to heel?

Artificial intelligence may conjure dystopian images from the Terminator movies, but an oil analysis company has used it to boot up its human employee ...

An industry group organized by the American Petroleum Institute is making headway on recommendations to improve the engine oil specification developme ...

Tanzania waived its 25 percent duty last month on imported Kenyan lubricants. Some players in the Tanzanian and Kenyan lubricant markets said the move ...