Sustainability

Podcast: Positive Outlook for 2025

Podcast: Positive Outlook for 2025

December 19, 2024

Depending upon your perspective 2024, the two major environmental conferences at the end of the year were either a crush ...

European Lube Associations Roll Out PCF Tool

European Lube Associations Roll Out PCF Tool

December 13, 2024

Europe’s two leading lubricant associations launched their product carbon footprint calculation tool this week, vital ...

Boosting Sustainability of Industrial Greases

Boosting Sustainability of Industrial Greases

December 2, 2024

What work is being done right now to increase the sustainability of industrial greases without sacrificing performance?

The Only Constant Is (Climate) Change

The Only Constant Is (Climate) Change

December 2, 2024

Climate change seems inevitable, but the European Green Deal is taking steps to mitigate the damage.

Perstorp Gets Top Sustainability Rating

Perstorp Gets Top Sustainability Rating

October 9, 2024

Sustainability ratings agency EcoVadis put Perstorp among the top 1% of companies it assessed for sustainability.

Infineum Splits Business Units

Infineum Splits Business Units

October 2, 2024

Infineum has split operations into two business units to develop products for new energy vehicles and enhance new busine ...

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Podcast 25: Water Everywhere and Nowhere

August 21, 2024

Floods and drought will become more prevalent as anthropogenic climate change worsens. As Europe is deluged, the global ...

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Chevron Leaving San Ramon

August 14, 2024

After 145 years in California, the second-biggest U.S. oil company, Chevron, is moving to Texas, the traditional home of ...

Waste Oil Kills Sewage Plant

Waste Oil Kills Sewage Plant

July 24, 2024

Operators shutdown a sewage plant in Castlegar, a town in British Columbia, Canada, after illegally dumped engine oil in ...

Cold Blending Is a Step Toward Sustainability

Cold Blending Is a Step Toward Sustainability

July 1, 2024

How can a novel blending process reduce the carbon footprint of lubricant manufacturing operations?

ATIEL and UEIL Form Joint Sustainability Committee 

ATIEL and UEIL Form Joint Sustainability Committee 

June 27, 2024

Two European lubricants associations, ATIEL and UEIL, have formed a sustainability committee to address the industryR ...

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STLE Forms Sustainability Committee

June 19, 2024

The Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers, one of the foremost lubricant technical associations in North Ame ...

EPA Ups Emissions Reporting for Oil and Gas Industry 

EPA Ups Emissions Reporting for Oil and Gas Industry 

May 9, 2024

US Oil and natural gas facilities must up the accuracy of emissions data of face fees.

Environmental Protection Laws Tighten Either Side of the Atlantic

Environmental Protection Laws Tighten Either Side of the Atlantic

April 30, 2024

The EU and the Biden Administration are working on new laws to curb emissions from industry.

Lube Industry Getting Immersed in Coolants

Lube Industry Getting Immersed in Coolants

April 1, 2024

What new opportunities could the quest for more energy-efficient data center cooling solutions offer to lubricants indus ...

Can Mining and Decarbonization Coexist?

Can Mining and Decarbonization Coexist?

April 1, 2024

Shell’s Elitza Terzova explains the role that lubrication can play in helping miners to decarbonize their operations a ...

Stormy Times in the Wind Power Business

Stormy Times in the Wind Power Business

April 1, 2024

Can the wind power business recover from last year’s roadblocks, and how will its struggles affect the lubricants indu ...