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Everllence has announced that the world’s first Everllence B&W G80 ethanol-capable engine has been tested and verified at a research and development test at HD Hyundai Heavy Industries’ engine and machinery division in South Korea. The engine

Afton Chemical has launched new-generation heavy-duty engine oil additive platforms developed to support the transition to the coming American Petroleum Institute (API) CL-4 and FB-4 categories, known in development as PC-12A and PC-12B. The heavy-duty industry is

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects Brent crude to average around USD 90 per barrel through the second half of 2026, with global inventories continuing to fall, according to its September Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO). Global oil prices averaged

PETRONAS Lubricants India, part of the PETRONAS group, and Tata Motors have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the collection and recycling of used automotive lubricants, and will pilot a structured model simultaneously across Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, India.

Engine oil for motor vehicles sold in Malaysia will have to be certified and carry a SIRIM conformity label from 6 October 2026, the third enforcement date set for an order gazetted almost two years ago, the Asian Lubricant Exhibition

Kemipex FZCO, UMW Lubetech and Hyrax Oil have won the first Best Stand Awards at the Asian Lubricant Exhibition (ALE) 2026, presented on the main stage at the

Malaysia has identified a shortage of 100,000 engineers needed to support its future, and about half of the country’s graduates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields are now women. Neither figure guarantees the lubricants industry a share of

Group III base oil was changing hands at USD 11.40 per gallon in July, against USD 3.40 in January before the Gulf conflict began — a rise of 235%, and the steepest of any American Petroleum Institute (API) base oil

Food brands are no longer asking only whether a lubricant is food grade. They are asking for documentary proof that it is free of two contaminant families they had barely heard of five years ago, and the legal exposure behind

Malaysia approved MYR 34.6 billion (USD 8.5 billion) of data centre and cloud computing investment in the first quarter of 2026 alone, across 33 projects — and every computation in them eventually becomes heat. That, an ALE 2026 audience was