Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) yesterday said that it will drop its Sterling brand and end truck production at its St. Thomas, Ontario and Portland, Oregon plants. Daimler Trucks North America will discontinue the Sterling Trucks brand next March, and will focus on a two brand strategy. Additions to the Freightliner and Western Star product ranges will be made to address market segments that have been served exclusively by Sterling offerings in the DTNA stable.

Roadranger's marketing organization has announced that fuel-saving Roadranger FE 75W-90 Synthetic Gear Lubricant is now available through every major heavy-duty truck original equipment manufacturer (OEM) in North America. New truck buyers in the United States and Canada may now specify this Roadranger axle lubricant from OEMs such as Peterbilt, Kenworth, International, Mack, Volvo, Freightliner, Sterling and Western Star.

Caterpillar has announced that the company is aligning its machine product and marketing organizations, with probably the most significant change being the creation of five "end-to-end" Machine Business Divisions: Mining, Quarry & Waste, Excavation, Earthmoving and Building Construction Products. The alignment results in numerous officer changes effective January 1, 2009, as well as the formation of the company's first Chinese-based division.

ConocoPhillips Company has announced the introduction of its next-generation Diamond Class Turbine Oil to meet the complex performance demands of power plant gas turbines. This turbine oil, a tri-branded offering featuring the Conoco, 76 Lubricants and Phillips 66 brands, is formulated from exclusive ConocoPhillips hydrocracked base stocks to extended the oxidation life up to 35,000 hours with zero varnish deposits.

The Rogers Petroleum Inc., Lubricants Division and Kelso Oil Co. will combine to form LubriCorp LLC, an entity that the respective owners say will be one of the largest lubricant distributors in the southeast US. The new company will distribute Mobil, Exxon, Shell, Pennzoil, Quaker State, Castrol, Citgo, JAX, and Quaker Chemical branded lubricants, serving customers in Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, South Carolina and Texas.

The Diester Synthetic Compressor Lubricants Cross Reference Chart is the 2nd of 21-charts of the Fourth Edition of our Synthetic Lubricant Cross Reference Chart Series. This 21-set series consists of over 7,500 (fully) synthetic lubricants marketed by over 500 worldwide lube manufacturing & marketing companies and OEMs.