Joint ELGI Grease Education Course @ Asian Lubricant Exhibition 2026
8–10 September 2026
MITEC, Hall 1, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
https://tickets.fuelsandlubes.com/events/flweek/2304794?trackingConsent=1
During the Asian Lubricant Exhibition 2026 the ELGI and F+L will organise a joint ELGI Grease Education course. More information will follow.
Module detail
Module 1 — Base Oils. The role of the base oil as the majority component and primary lubricating medium. Mineral, synthetic (PAO, ester, etc.), and other base stocks; viscosity selection and its effect on grease performance; how base-oil choice drives temperature range, bleed, and compatibility.
Module 2 — Thickeners. The defining component of a grease. Soap thickeners (lithium, lithium complex, calcium, calcium sulfonate, aluminium complex) and non-soap/organic types (polyurea, clay, etc.); how thickener type determines dropping point, water resistance, mechanical stability, and application fit.
Module 3 — Additives. The additive toolbox for grease: anti-wear and extreme-pressure chemistry, antioxidants, corrosion and rust inhibitors, tackifiers, and solid lubricants (moly, graphite, etc.). What each contributes and how additive choices interact with the thickener and base-oil system.
Module 4 — Test Methods. The standard analytical toolkit: penetration and NLGI grade, dropping point, oil separation/bleed, water washout, oxidation stability, and EP/wear testing. How to read a grease data sheet and what each result predicts about field behaviour.
Module 5 — Manufacturing. How grease is actually made: saponification, the role of temperature and process control, batch vs. continuous production, milling and homogenisation, and quality control. How process decisions show up in the finished product.
Module 6 — Applications. Matching grease to service: bearings, gears, and specialised applications across operating temperature, load, speed, and environment. Compatibility and the risks of mixing incompatible greases; re-lubrication strategy.
Module 7 — Regulations, Conformity & Trends. Specifications and conformity standards; environmental and food-grade (NSF) considerations; and current market direction, including bio-based and high-performance greases for emerging applications.
Field Diagnosis Clinic (Day 2, interactive). A facilitated session on diagnosing real grease failures — bearing failures, incompatibility, bleed and consistency problems, and contamination. Symptom to likely cause to corrective action, built around field scenarios. Participants are encouraged to bring their own cases.
Press Release – ELGI Changes
1 September 2025 - Terry Dicken, Chairman ELGI
Dear ELGI Members & Colleagues,
As many of you know the ELGI office in Amsterdam closed at the beginning of 2024 coinciding with the retirement of our long serving office manager Carol Koopman. Our office moved to The Hague and for the last year has been administered by NVG with Jacqueline Bosman as the main administrator for ELGI.
NVG was an administrator organisation servicing the needs of technical associations and institutes like ELGI. In June 2025 NVG decided that they would cease association management at the end of the year and focus more as a lobbying organisation. ELGI is a technical institute and does not enter into the field of lobbying, leaving that aspect of the industry to be carried out by other organisations.
PRESS RELEASE
The ELGI firmly supports the UEIL/ATIEL PCF calculation methodology (Methodology for Product Carbon Footprint Calculations for Lubricants, Greases and Other Specialities), highlighting our commitment to industry standards and sustainability.
ELGI supports French lithium RMOA
ELGI is supporting the joint industry position to the new French lithium RMOA that has been drafted by Eurometaux and ILiA and lithium industry leaders on the Eurometaux Li CLH Taskforce.
It has been a wonderful example of collaboration and in total fourteen associations co-signed the document.
Click here for the document
For more information please also see www.lithium.org.
New Working Groups
ELGI is consistently working to meet the challenges and improve knowledge in the grease industry in form of collaborative work. We are now opening the opportunity to propose working groups for new topics and have added a form for applicants to use in the member section. We are looking forward to receiving interesting and valuable proposals that can benefit our industry. Download form.
ELGI Sustainability Consortium
Sustainability is at the forefront of most companies’ agenda throughout most industries, none more so than the lubricants industry, with a dependence on fossil feedstock, energy reliant manufacturing procedures and significant disposal demands, the oil and lubricant manufactures and distributors are at the forefront of todays modern view on sustainability.