ExxonMobil announced that it would increase prices by up to 9 percent for both Exxon and Mobil branded and unbranded lubricants and greases, effective May 1, 2008 for both conventional and synthetic products. Shell Lubricants, CITGO and ConocoPhillips have also announced recent lube price increases. These price increases in general amounted to anywhere from 5% to 10%, or from $0.40 a gallon, or $0.05 a pound, for conventional lubricants and up to $1.00 per gallon for synthetic lubricants. Chevron had announced a similar price increase back on February 18, 2008, effective March 20, 2008.

Detroit Diesel has revised its POWER GUARD Oil Specification 93K218 Approved Oils List for use in Series 50, Series 60, MBE 900, MBE 4000, and the new DD15 engines. Specifically, the motor oils added include a total of 15 motor oils marketed by ExxonMobil, Valvoline, Sinopec, Castrol, United Oil, Cross Oil, Shell, Comercial Importadora S.A. de C.V., Warren Oil and CITGO.

Ten years after Eaton Corporation and Dana created the original Roadranger marketing organization, the two companies have agreed to renew the groundbreaking initiative for an additional five years. The Roadranger agreement gives truck buyers the option to select Eaton and Dana products as a complete system for single-source specification, service and support for those products - with Roadranger's customer promise of "More Time On The Road.®"

The Misc. Synthetic Industrial Lubricants Cross Reference Chart is the 13th of a 21-chart series of the Third Edition of our Synthetic Lubricant Cross Reference Chart Series. This 22-set series consists of over 7,400 (fully) synthetic lubricants marketed by over 500 worldwide lube manufacturing & marketing companies and OEMs.