Although the writing is on the wall for internal combustion engines, lubricant formulators still have work to do meeting original equipment manufactur ...

The International Fluids Consortium said today that General Motors has joined the organization, an accomplishment as it works to create a global syste ...

North America’s automotive and lubricant industries are continuing their steady march to lower viscosity grades for gasoline-powered light-duty vehi ...

Automakers and representatives of the lubricants industry have taken the first formal step toward developing the next gasoline engine oil specificatio ...

Automakers have expressed interest to address additional issues in the latest passenger car motor oil specifications for North America before adoption ...

Lawmakers, regulators and standards agencies around the world are driving the transition to a low-carbon economy through a raft of policy initiatives. ...

ACEA’s new heavy-duty engine oil sequences have finally been released a year later than their light-duty counterparts. Why the delay? How do the new ...

Steve Swedberg discusses the ways in which GF-7 may differ from its predecessor.

The European Automobile Manufacturers Association published this month an update to its ACEA Engine Oil Sequences for heavy-duty engines, providing in ...

A draft standard for lubricants for heavy-duty engines running on natural gas has cleared the project review stage and been formally accepted as a dev ...

New engine oil performance categories mean renewed attention to the testing protocols that accompany them. Discover how one company is making sure tha ...

Seven months after its commercial launch, General Motors says it is pleased with the uptake of its latest engine oil specification for gasoline-powere ...

The development process that began last month for PC-12, the next heavy-duty engine oil category for North America, has a monetary aspect that’s new ...

The years-long process of writing the next heavy-duty diesel engine oil category began last week when the American Petroleum Institute’s Lubricants ...

Lubricant bench tests are small-scale tests examining a specific aspect of a lubricant’s performance. Faster and cheaper than full-scale tests, they ...

Quantifying Tackiness and Adhesion in Greases Standardization of test methods in the lubricants industry is neither a quick nor an easy process.&nb ...

How About Another Engine Test? As you all know, I think we may overdo the engine test requirements for engine oils. I’ve long advocated for conso ...

Eleven automakers – the majority headquartered in Japan and South Korea – have joined the International Fluids Consortium, the fledgling organizat ...

The American Petroleum Institute closed provisional licensing, invoked in March for most active North American industry heavy-duty diesel engine oil s ...

Several automakers formally requested that the American Petroleum Institute’s Lubricants Group develop a supplement to the API SP specification to i ...