The troubles over the Mizushima plant continue to build for Japanese petroleum company JX Nippon. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) ...

SAE International has fully approved a new viscosity grade. SAE 16 will take its place this spring in the SAE J300 Standard as a lighter-weight altern ...

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. widened a recall on Dec. 20 for an oil leak issue on vehicles sold in Japan to about 1.7 million vehicles, prompting a rebuke ...

A crankcase defect led Kawasaki to recall 4,170 model year 2011 to 2012 motorcycles. The recall includes several variants of the ZX-10R Ninja motorcy ...

Consumers buying oil changes will know what theyve received, and bulk motor oil shipments will require documentation in some states starting in July 2 ...

GF-6, the next passenger car engine oil category proposed for first licensing in January 2016, is taking shape. Unlike its predecessors, it will be di ...

The next heavy-duty engine oil upgrade, known as PC-11, took center stage June 26 during ASTM Committee D-2’s technical week in San Francisco. T ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued Hydrodec Group a final permit for storage and treatment of used transformer oil contaminated with poly ...

The American Petroleum Institutes Motor Oil Matters initiative is taking wings, with the first group of licensees expected to receive their certificat ...

The European Council repealed an anti-dumping duty on furfuraldehyde from China, saying in recent years the EUs industry had fully recovered while pri ...

General Motors will recall more than 400,000 2011 and 2012 model Chevrolet Cruzes in the United States because of an engine shield flaw that could tra ...

Health Canada postponed lowering the limits on the popular metalworking fluid biocide triazine to 500 ppm, a change originally scheduled to go into ef ...

Citgo sued distributor Mid-State Energy and subsidiary Highland Oil, alleging they sold poor quality, non-Citgo bulk lubricants falsely labeled with C ...

IQ Products sued WD-40 for breach of contract, alleging WD-40 terminated a long-term packaging agreement as retaliation when IQ Products notified it o ...

Z Technologies filed an antitrust suit against Lubrizol, alleging its acquisition of Lockharts wax oxidate business in 2007 resulted in a monopoly and ...

The former president of a South Carolina lubricant blender was arrested in May on charges of exporting aviation oils in violation of a U.S. economic e ...

Jiffy Lube International has become the target of a class action lawsuit filed in California Superior Court for the County of Los Angeles. The suit, f ...

Regulatory pressures continue to push metalworking fluid formulators to find alternative chemistries, even in the absence of hard data to back up rest ...

Bullseye Motor Oil can cause significant damage to car engines, the Petroleum Quality Institute of America said, issuing its first-ever Dont Buy alert ...

Fuel and lubricants packager and distributor SMF Energy and its subsidiaries filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy petitions in Florida, saying efforts to reduc ...