Regulations

Rivals in the offshore drilling fluids market, Niche Products and MacDermid Offshore Solutions, settled a U.S. lawsuit in which the former accused the ...

The World Intellectual Property Organization dismissed a claim by skin care products supplier Beiersdorf AG that a Chinese lube marketer infringed on ...

Tianhe Rebuts Fraud Claims

September 16, 2014

A week after being subjected to fraud allegations by research firm Anonymous Analytics, lube additive producer Tianhe denied the claims and accused AA ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kazakhstans government introduced a six-month ban effective July 1 on export of lubricants and other petrochemicals as a measure to stop short supplie ...

Nigerias Department of Petroleum Resources arrested the operator of an illegal lubricant blending plant in Kontagora, Niger State, in northern central ...

States continued their fight against substandard and mislabeled automotive lubricants in the marketplace, as Alabama weights and measures division iss ...