In 1996, Mark Miller founded a company making environmentally safe lubricants from vegetable oil. “We were green when green was still a color,” he said. Along […]
Sustainability is a hot-button topic these days across many sectors. The environmentally challenging nature of the base oil industry and its exposure to regulation leads formulators […]
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Health and safety are priorities for food, drink and drug manufacturers. Standards of cleanliness and hygiene are as important on the shop room floor as in […]
Estolides are a class of unique bio-based oils with a variety of uses. Their oligomeric structure contains fatty acid repeat units, with secondary ester linkages on […]
Dependence on foreign oil is a growing concern, as is urban runoff water, which contains significant amounts of oil and petroleum products that contaminate America’s […]
Department of Defense Trialed Biosynthetic Technologies’ Biobased Motor Oil in a Demonstration. Before biobased motor oils can be fully implemented by the DoD and federal agencies, […]
Oxidative stability measures the ability for oil to resist chemical degradation in the presence of oxygen. It is a critical property that correlates with the longevity […]
One of the main reasons for concern about lubricant environmental safety is that a vast quantity of industrial lubricants find their way into the environment.