The American Petroleum Institute's new diesel engine oil-service categories, API CK-4 and FA-4, will begin appearing in the marketplace on December 1. New API Donuts denoting the categories will ...

Years of work in the lab and millions of miles of road testing has culminated in three new Rotella engine oils formulated to meet the API CK-4 and FA-4 oil-service categories that will start coming on ...

API CK-4 and FA-4 diesel engine oils have been available for nearly two years, but with several combinations of categories and viscosities available, it can be difficult to decide which best fits your ...

The new API CK-4 oils deliver many benefits that directly address major issues with off-road equipment, including extended drain intervals, reduced engine wear and ability to extend engine rebuild ...

With the American Petroleum Institute's Lubricants Group approving the transition into the development phase of Proposed Category-12 (PC-12), the replacement process for engine oil categories CK-4 and ...

The Engine Manufacturers Association (EMA) made a request earlier this year to the Diesel Engine Oil Advisory Panel (DEOAP) of the American Petroleum Institute (API) to initiate development of a new ...

With the transition to the new API CK-4 and FA-4 oil categories, one of the challenges is figuring out the right oils for your application. CK-4 oils, for example, are designed for both newer engines ...

December 1, 2016, marked the official availability of two new diesel engine oils, CK-4 and FA-4. These new oils, as most are aware, were developed to meet the more demanding lubrication and ...

A new generation of heavy-duty diesel engine oil is headed our way in the next 12 to 18 months. Known currently as PC-12, or Proposed Category 12, the oils under development through the American ...

Modern engine design and the need to reduce CO2 emissions have led to the development of additional engine oil categories and a growing number of engine oil viscosity grades for diesel engines. In ...