Deep reporting on major market topics

A subscription to Lubes’n’Greases includes our Special Reports offering a wealth of deep reporting on the major market topics impacting the industry today and for many years to come. Topics include base stocks, sustainability, electric vehicles, additives and more.

Special Report on Base Stocks

February 2025

Discover how synthetic base stocks are helping to up the quality of automotive lubricants, as well as how rerefined base oils are becoming increasingly important to a sustainability-focused industry.

Special Report on Distribution

November 2024

What are the major trends shaping the distribution business, and how have distributors rolled with the punches?

Special Report on Electric Vehicles

September 2024

Discover how the global EV market is projected to grow in the coming years, how an uptick in EV manufacturing may affect metalworking fluid demand, and what today’s EVs are demanding of fluid performance.

Special Report on Sustainability

April 2024

Learn about the role that lubrication can play in helping miners to decarbonize their operations as well as how recent hiccups in the wind power business may affect industrial lubricants. Plus, discover how increasing demand for data center coolants might open doors for lubricant manufacturers.

Special Report on Base Stocks

February 2024

Discover how extended producer responsibility in India might affect the rerefining segment in the country as well as how the automotive industry is impacting base oil demand in Brazil. Plus, learn about how a Dutch startup is using fermentation to produce fatty acids from food waste.

Special Report on Additives

October 2023

Find out from where Russia is sourcing its additives after the major additive suppliers withdrew from the country as well as which factors have affected global additive supply during the past few years. Plus, discover how a Shell employee with ties to Oppenheimer was critical to key developments in additives and finished lubricants.