Specifications

Asia has become the worlds largest and fastest-growing lubricant market, but it still relies largely on specifications developed in and for other regi ...

LONDON – Growing concerns about the engine-destroying effects of low speed pre-ignition, likely caused by droplets of oil and fuel mixed togethe ...

The Japanese Automotive Standards Organization is working on a two-year schedule to update specifications for both two- and four-stroke motorcycle eng ...

PC-11, the heavy-duty engine oil category upgrade being developed by diesel engine manufacturers and the lubricants industry, continues to make progre ...

In a sometimes intense session at the 19th Colloquium Tribology at the Technische Akademie Esslingen in Germany last week, representatives from Lubriz ...

EMA Requests PC-11 Delay

November 20, 2013

EMA, the Truck and Engine Manufacturers Association, has requested a delay in the first-licensing date for the next heavy-duty engine oil upgrade, PC- ...

SAE Cancels Two Mil Specs

March 13, 2013

In separate notifications last month, SAE International cancelled two longtime military heavy-duty engine oil specifications, J2359 and J2361. The for ...

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 ...

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 New Category Development Team has locked in a strict timeline for creating PC-11, the proposed category upgrade for heavy-duty engine oils. The m ...

STUTTGART, Germany – Mercedes-Benz has adopted a wide-ranging upgrade of service-fill engine oil specifications for its passenger cars and heavy ...

LONDON – With the help of lubricants ally BP Castrol, Ford has created a proprietary engine oil for its innovative 1.0-liter, three-cylinder Eco ...

ROBO Is Ready to Roll

July 22, 2009

ASTM International has published RohMaxs ROBO, a bench test designed to replace the more expensive Sequence IIIGA engine test in the new ILSAC GF-5 en ...