The timeline below illustrates the sheer number of engine oil categories required to meet today’s demands compared to a half of a century ago. W ...

The European Council and European Parliament reached a provisional agreement Monday to not make major changes to passenger car engine emissions limits ...

Two Italian used oil recycling operators filed an antimonopoly petition against Conou, Italy’s National Consortium for Waste Oils Management, allegi ...

Will PTFE be banned in the coming years, and how might increasing regulation affect lubricant formulations? What did North American lubricant demand l ...

China’s government will prohibit the use of short-chain chlorinated paraffins beginning Jan. 1, aligning with numerous other countries that have out ...

A Germany-based leading testing service provider validated a methodology co-developed by the Union of the European Lubricant Industry and the Technica ...

How are new tests, tools and regulations driving oil analysis into a new era?

Is PTFE on its way to being banned, and how might its potential regulation affect the lubricants industry?

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has dropped a plan to invite public comments about rules regarding the collection and treatment of oily waste ...

The ability to use phenol, isopropylated phosphate as an ingredient in lubricants would end in five years under rule amendments proposed Monday by the ...

The European Union Parliament this month adopted its negotiation position on Euro 7, the revamping of EU rules for type-approval and market surveillan ...

The ever-increasing regulation of PFAS could have significant consequences for metalworking fluids and other lubricants.

At least some lubricant manufacturers in Mexico were said to be scrambling with disruptions in base oil deliveries after the nation’s president impo ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom finally signed into law a first-in-nation bill that requires large U.S. corporations to disclose their carbon emissio ...

The U.S. Supreme Court last week decided against reviewing a lawsuit first by the Minnesota Auto Dealers Association challenging the state’s adoptio ...

The European Automobile Manufacturers Association will probably continue developing automotive engine oil specifications after the European Union proh ...

After nine months of development, the Union of the European Lubricants Industry and the Technical Association of the European Lubricants Industry publ ...

Three years since its founding, the International Fluids Consortium has begun working on its third engine oil specification even as it writes base oil ...

Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. announced yesterday that it has reopened a finished lubricant blending plant at its Vassa Guacara refinery, part of an ong ...

European Union member states last week agreed to push the bloc’s executive arm to relax Euro 7 automobile emissions requirements that it proposed la ...