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 ...

United Kingdom-based Verification of Lubricant Specifications said it has resolved a complaint against German automotive parts supplier SCT-Vertriebs ...

Since January of 2020, Indonesia has required the content of diesel sold within its borders to be 30% biodiesel by weight – the highest such mandate ...

You’ll remember that my column in June discussed the new heavy-duty engine oil category, currently called PC-12. It must be the year of new standard ...

Regulations Ramp Up for Food-grade Lubes COVID-19 may have caused widespread disruption this past year, affecting output and pushing the suppl ...

The long-awaited 2021 ACEA light-duty engine oil specifications are finally in the hands of lubricant blenders, marketers and original equipment manuf ...

The German subsidiaries of Seat and Skoda have added engine oil specifications to owners manuals of their vehicles, as part of a cease and desist sett ...

Automotive I’ve been in this business for a long time. For many years, the introduction of a new oil category was based on needs expressed by ori ...

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

There are over 140,000 miles of freight and passenger railroad tracks in both the United States and Europe. As train wheels spin, move and grind to a ...