Regulations Specs & Testing

Tianhe Chemicals has been suspended from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange after Anonymous Analytics accused it last week of fraud.

Toxic Oils, Lethal Regulations

September 8, 2014

U.S. regulations are threatening to destroy the nation's used oil collection network, says NORA, the recycling trade group. So it's pursuing reform on ...

ATF Fraud Leads to Jail, Fine

September 3, 2014

The owner of a New York automotive lubricants distributorship pled guilty to grand larceny charges, admitting substitution of cheaper transmission flu ...

LAGOS, Nigeria – Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. will partner with a local blender to enter the finished lubricants market in October, an NNPC ...

Leak Draws Agencys Wrath

September 3, 2014

The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency referred an enforcement action to the state attorney generals office against Olympic Oil Ltd. for causing ...

Kazakh Lube Plant Postponed

September 2, 2014

Lukoil said it will halt construction of its blending plant in Kazakhstan due to the countrys restrictions on base oil imports and lubricant exports.

Bureau Veritas, a French standards testing and certification firm, acquired U.S.-based oil analysis and condition monitoring specialists Analysts Inc. ...

A recent report from the National Academy of Sciences National Research Council upheld the listing of formaldehyde as known to be a human carcinogen i ...

Malaysia will postpone its B5 biodiesel mandate for the whole country to the end of the year, according to the Ministry of Plantation Industries and C ...

The Georgian market is glutted with fake automotive lubricants and spare auto parts, the South Caucasus countrys Union of Oil Product Importers told L ...

South Korea is moving toward implementation of a major chemicals law modeled after the European Unions REACH regulation.

With less than a year to go, many lubricant safety labels still don't meet the Global Harmonized System. What's taking so long? First, there are the a ...

The U.S. National Conference on Weights and Measures will amend motor oil guidelines to encourage the identification of engine oil performance specifi ...

The Tanzania Bureau of Standards published a public notice naming several types of passenger and heavy duty motor oil the agency says do not comply wi ...

Correction

July 29, 2014

An article in the July 22 issue reported incorrectly that Singapore had resolved to adopt the Euro VI emissions standard for diesel-powered heavy-duty ...

The U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on United Arab Emirates-based Pangates International Corp. for providing material support – inclu ...

Singapore plans to strengthen emissions limits for heavy-duty trucks running on petrol, indicating it expects to adopt the Euro V or Euro VI standard ...

Doing business in the U.S.? The lubricants industry there must classify tens of thousands of products in accordance with GHS before June 1, 2015. One ...

ExxonMobil opened its first lubricants products technology center in Europe, where it will collaborate with original equipment manufacturers and other ...

Straining under the workload of developing two new engine oil categories – PC-11 for heavy-duty diesel oils and GF-6 for gasoline-fueled passeng ...