August 2026

Valvoline Global Operations has stepped up its involvement with Mahindra Racing to Official Partner, using the season finale of the Formula E World Championship in London, England, to tie 160 years of lubricant development to its work on electric mobility.

Shell Lubricants and Hyundai Motor Company have announced a five-year renewal of their global partnership, extending a relationship that began in 2005. The agreement, announced in Seoul, South Korea, on 19 August 2026, is the fifth renewal since the two

Castrol has said two of its direct-to-chip (D2C) cooling fluids have been validated to meet NVIDIA’s requirements for artificial intelligence (AI) factory and data centre infrastructure. The lubricant maker, currently part of the bp group, said Castrol ON PG25 and

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released a draft risk evaluation of ethylene dibromide, the chemical used chiefly as a lead scavenger in leaded aviation gasoline, under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The draft, announced on 18 August

ProFluid, LLC has opened a Global Innovation & Technology Center in Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.A., committing more than USD 3 million to the first phase of a site that the specialty chemical company will use as its main hub for research,

Syzygy Plasmonics has signed a framework agreement with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, to support a pipeline of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) projects across Latin America. Under the agreement, IFC will

Hitachi Energy will invest USD 300 million in China to expand power transformer and component manufacturing, a move the company said would strengthen its global manufacturing footprint and address rapidly growing demand for transformers

HD Hyundai Oilbank has begun supplying South Korea’s first engine oil specifically developed for hydrogen internal combustion engines (H2-ICEs), positioning the refiner in the emerging market for hydrogen mobility lubricants. The company said on 11 August it had recently

ENEOS Holdings, Inc.’s planned purchase of TPC Holdings, Inc., a U.S. producer of chemicals derived from four-carbon (C4) hydrocarbons, will give the Japanese group the world’s third-largest butadiene production capacity. The Tokyo, Japan-based company announced on 7 August that it

Viva Energy Australia has turned pyrolysis oil made from soft plastics into recycled polypropylene at its Geelong refinery, and the resin has been used to make Nestlé KitKat wrappers, the company said. The milestone was marked at a launch event