Tanzania will require lubricant importers to obtain licenses beginning in May, as part of an effort to stem the flow of substandard products, a govern ...

Tom Glenn warns of the consequences for retailers that sell deceptively labeled motor oils.

Proliferating tests, parameters, committees and costs are stifling engine oil innovation, says one additive maker, and he believes that the time is ri ...

As demand shifts upward for transmission fluids in mining and construction equipment, differences are emerging among OEMs friction requirements.

On Jan. 1, a law went into effect in California prohibiting engine oils deemed obsolete by the American Petroleum Institute. Less than three months la ...

Biodiesel continues gaining ground in Indonesia and Malaysia. Indonesia raised its requirement for biodiesel content in diesel from 10 percent to 20 p ...

California this year began prohibiting the sale of engine oils and lubricants considered obsolete by American Petroleum Institute standards. The regul ...

Feb. 22 is the deadline for submitting comments and more data for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys ongoing preliminary risk assessment of med ...

Vietnam no longer collects tariffs on lubricants imported from Association of Southeast Asian Nations member states, which will open up the countrys g ...

Legislators in California are considering a bill that would require automotive service providers to notify customers of the oil change interval that c ...

Newly announced rule changes by Chinas Ministry of Commerce will make it easier for domestic companies to export finished lubricants, greases, and bas ...

A California resident filed a class action lawsuit against the owner of Dollar General discount stores, alleging that its house brand motor oils are o ...

The Tanzanian Bureau of Standards revved up its crackdown on substandard lubes, demanding two reshipment orders in two weeks. Rhoida Andusamile, publi ...

New Jersey authorities filed a civil suit Dec. 21 accusing several Pep Boys and Advance Auto Parts stores in the state of unlawful pricing practices. ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has made public new documents regarding its preliminary risk assessment of medium- and long-chain chlorinated ...

Can very-long-chain chlorinated paraffins replace their cousins, which have been targeted by EPA?

Russian police on Friday raided a massive counterfeit motor oil business in Moscow that they said sold fake products in containers designed to look li ...

Bolivias National Hydrocarbons Agency began lubricant quality control operations last month, sampling and testing lubricants in mobile laboratories to ...

Russian authorities and a civil organization have uncovered a pattern of illegal production and sale of fake motor oils in the city of Novosibirsk. Se ...

India announced it will implement Bharat Stage V and VI emissions standards for passenger vehicles three years earlier than previously planned, in 201 ...