At its Standards meeting last week in Dearborn, Michigan, the American Petroleum Institutes Lubricants Group again took up the feasibility of issuing ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – While meeting here last week to consider a proposed supplemental engine oil category, the American Petroleum Institutes Lubri ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Meeting here yesterday, the American Petroleum Institutes Lubricants Group voted unanimously to move forward on establishing ...

With North American and Asian automobile manufacturers asking that a stop-gap GF-5 Plus category be inserted in the ILSAC series of passenger car engi ...

American and Asian automakers have sent an official request to the American Petroleum Institute, urging that it create as soon as possible a supplemen ...

BOSTON – At last weeks semiannual gathering of ASTM Committee D2, both the Passenger Car Engine Oil and Heavy Duty Engine Oil Classification Pan ...

Engine tests are the most expensive and time-consuming parts of engine oil specifications, so its no surprise that developers take time to consider ho ...

Members of the Japanese Automobile Manufacturers Association want to continue pioneering lower-viscosity oils by developing a specification for SAE 0W ...

In its initial public offering, Jiangsu Lopal Petrochemical Co. raised 494 million (U.S. $71.68 million) to build several new production, warehouse an ...

The American Petroleum Institute last week invoked provisional licensing for the ILSAC GF-5 and API SN with Resource Conserving passenger car engine o ...

LONDON – The process for developing automotive engine oil specifications has been a hot topic for the past several years. Many in the lubricants ...

ATIEL, the European lubricants industrys technical association, released a new version of its Code of Practice, which provides guidance for developers ...

Many attending the Auto-Oil Advisory Panel meeting earlier this month in Orlando, Florida, were braced for unpleasant news, but the reality was still ...

ORLANDO, Florida – ILSAC GF-6, the passenger car engine oil upgrade now under development, has slipped behind schedule again and may not get its ...

Diesel engine oils meeting the American Petroleum Institutes new standards, API CK-4 and FA-4, will begin appearing in the marketplace tomorrow, beari ...

In a surprise move, Ford has issued a new diesel engine oil service fill specification, WSS-M2C171-F1, covering all Ford diesel engines. This specific ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration jointly adopted a second round of standards for medium- an ...

As a part of the new API CK-4 and FA-4 heavy-duty diesel oil categories, a newly proposed ASTM International test standard (WK52873) has been introduc ...

The American Petroleum Institute will cease its provisional licensing of ILSAC GF-5 and API SN, SM, SL and SJ passenger car motor oil categories after ...

The U.S. Air Force is giving biobased automotive oils a chance to prove their mettle. Will green lubes win over this lucrative market?