Petro-Canada Lubricants boasts it is the first lubes manufacturer to obtain the ISO/TS 16949 certification, a quality standard established by North American and European automakers earlier this year. Officials said the achievement would help the company in its efforts to supply factory fill lubes to auto plants. Achieving this new industry standard confirms our ability to meet the needs of customers on a global scale and opens up new marketing opportunities worldwide, Vice President for Lubrican...

Cargill Industrial Oils and Lubricants and Hatco Corp. have announced an alliance aimed at supplying biobased industrial lubes to Latin America by the end of next year. The companies plan to build a vegetable oil refinery and a plant in which to produce ester base stocks, or else to buy existing facilities. Officials said Cargill already has resources in the area for raw materials – such as soy and palm oil – which was one of the motivating factors in the venture. The driving force i...

Automaker and lubricant additiverepresentatives agreed at an industry meeting last week that efforts to draft GF-4, the next category of passenger car motor oil, have earned a poor grade thus far. They disagreed, however, on the source of the problem. At the National Petrochemical and Refiners Associations Lubricants and Wax Meeting in Houston Friday, the head of the inter-industry group developing the GF-4 specification suggested it has fallen victim to foot-dragging by motor oil marketers. ILS...