People from many organizations must come together to advance lubricant specifications, ensuring that engines both old and new continue to be protected ...

The timeline below illustrates the sheer number of engine oil categories required to meet today’s demands compared to a half of a century ago. W ...

The European Automobile Manufacturers Association will probably continue developing automotive engine oil specifications after the European Union proh ...

Three years since its founding, the International Fluids Consortium has begun working on its third engine oil specification even as it writes base oil ...

Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. announced yesterday that it has reopened a finished lubricant blending plant at its Vassa Guacara refinery, part of an ong ...

The American Petroleum Institute on Thursday adopted SAE 0W-8 and 0W-12 viscosity grades into service category API SP, extending the bottom range of p ...

The European Automobile Manufacturers Association on Sept. 12 announced it revised its ACEA Engine Oil Sequences for light-duty engines this year to a ...

An updated motorcycle oil specification is set to hit the market soon. What’s new, and how might the new standard affect lubricant marketers?

U.K. lubricant company Castrol launched its own hybrid engine oil performance standard called Hyspec. According to the company, it is a first-of-a-kin ...

The Japanese Society of Automotive Engineers has updated its JASO T 903 performance specification for four-stroke motorcycle engine oils, incorporatin ...

United Kingdom-based Verification of Lubricant Specifications announced the resolution of three cases in which it identified gear oils that failed to ...

One United Kingdom-based organization is doing its part to ensure that lubricant standards are met or exceeded.

Lubes’n’Greases discussed the looming introduction of PC-12 with New Category Development Team Chairperson Karin Haumann.

How do regulatory bodies ensure the continuity of licensing when an engine or bench test fails?

The Union of the European Lubricants Industry announced this month that it helped resolve a complaint about Mercedes Benz saying that customers were r ...

Grease manufacturers and end users are closer to having another simple manual device to quickly inspect samples of lubricating greases and forecast at ...

The March issue delves into the buzz-worthy introduction of ILSAC GF-7. Find out when it will make its debut and how it will differ from GF-6. Plus, d ...

The March issue delves into the buzz-worthy introduction of ILSAC GF-7. Find out when it will make its debut and how it will differ from GF-6. Plus, d ...

The March issue delves into the buzz-worthy introduction of ILSAC GF-7. Find out when it will make its debut and how it will differ from GF-6. Plus, d ...

The American Petroleum Institute announced that an engine sequence test included in most active North American passenger car motor oil specifications ...