The Sequence IVB may be attracting the lions share of attention, but the ILSAC GF-6 engine oil upgrade also has six other new or replacement engine te ...

Suppliers of metal alloys and metal removal fluids can breathe a sigh of relief – for now. The European Commission took another step toward cont ...

Much of the recent passenger car lubricant news has been focused on the proposed API SN-Plus supplemental category. North American and Asian automaker ...

On Sept. 1, all licenses for General Motors first-generation Dexos1 passenger car engine oils expired – those products may no longer be manufact ...

When the auto and oil industries develop new engine tests for automobile engine oil specifications – as is happening now – there is always ...

A crackdown by regulators in China has forced the closing - at least temporarily - of a number of base oil plants. Most are small and low-tech, but ob ...

The Pakistan Standards & Quality Control Authority, the countrys national standards enforcer, recently seized a unit of Golden Lubricants for producti ...

When a mysterious contaminant clogged the filters of a hydraulic press and left operators puzzled, laboratory technicians stepped in to find the culpr ...

At its Standards meeting last week in Dearborn, Michigan, the American Petroleum Institutes Lubricants Group again took up the feasibility of issuing ...

CHICAGO- Political, environmental and regulatory issues are working together to shape the industrial lubricants landscape near- to mid-term, according ...

Like in many other industries, counterfeiting has also grown into a big problem in the lube market. Some companies enlist technology in the never-endi ...

Steve Swedberg reports the latest on APIs CK-4 and FA-4 heavy-duty engine oil categories.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – While meeting here last week to consider a proposed supplemental engine oil category, the American Petroleum Institutes Lubri ...

An oil analysis laboratory can play an important role in keeping machinery operating. However, the laboratory must be equipped with both the best anal ...

REACH is compelling cooperation among companies that may be fierce competitors in the marketplace.

Last week, the National Lubricating Grease Institute officially launched a research grants program to encourage inquiry into the mysteries of lubricat ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Meeting here yesterday, the American Petroleum Institutes Lubricants Group voted unanimously to move forward on establishing ...

With North American and Asian automobile manufacturers asking that a stop-gap GF-5 Plus category be inserted in the ILSAC series of passenger car engi ...

Lubricant sales and marketing maven Maura Schreier-Fleming will give the keynote address at the first-ever Petroleum Quality Institute of America Summ ...

Labels on automatic transmission fluid should be clearer in some states starting in January, following recent handbook amendments adopted by the Natio ...