IVECO and PETRONAS Extend Lubricant Partnership to 2032, Launch First 0W-16 Heavy-Duty Oil

IVECO and PETRONAS Lubricants International have extended their strategic partnership by five years, to 2032, prolonging a supply and co-development relationship that has run for more than 50 years. The renewed accord covers a full range of lubricants and technical fluids for IVECO commercial vehicles in Europe and Latin America.

The scope runs from engine oils and transmission fluids to coolants and brake fluids, sold under the IVECO URANIA and IVECO TUTELA lines. Those products are the only fluids officially recommended by the Italian manufacturer for its vehicle portfolio.

The headline technical output of the renewal is Urania Next 0W-16, presented as the first SAE 0W-16 engine oil developed specifically for heavy-duty applications and compatible with the Euro 7 standard. According to the two companies, the formulation helps cut fuel consumption and CO2 emissions and is matched to the new generation of IVECO engines. The companies also link the formulation to higher fuel efficiency, lower CO2 and extended drain intervals.

A move to 0W-16 viscosity in trucks is the mechanical route to the same result an operator would otherwise chase through hardware: thinner oil reduces pumping and churning losses inside the engine, which shows up as fuel burned per tonne-kilometre. Tying that grade to Euro 7 compliance places the lubricant inside the OEM's emissions engineering rather than alongside it, which is what makes a single-supplier factory fill lock-in commercially durable.

Domenico Nucera, Chief Quality and Operations Officer at Iveco Group, said the renewal confirms the solidity of a long-running collaboration built on shared technical expertise. Domenico Ciaglia, Group Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer at PETRONAS Lubricants International, said the renewal demonstrates what a long-term, future-oriented collaboration can achieve.

PETRONAS will run dedicated programmes for IVECO dealers to raise customer awareness of officially approved lubricants, with targeted initiatives supporting dealer business development across European and South American markets. That is the aftermarket half of the deal: factory fill sets the specification, dealer channel work defends the refill volume against generic alternatives over the life of the vehicle.

The Latin American leg of the relationship already carries a measured circular-supply component. A partnership between IVECO, PETRONAS and Lwart Solucoes Ambientais consolidates the use of re-refined base oil capable of cutting life-cycle CO2 emissions by 77% against first-refining oils produced in Brazil. The programme is built on the NEXPRO Infinity lubricant, formulated with base oil from the re-refining of used or contaminated lubricating oil, supplied by Lwart.

A life-cycle assessment of the feedstock points to mitigation of 1,091 kg of CO2 equivalent per cubic metre of base oil produced, compared with conventional oils in Brazil. Since the partnership began a year ago, more than 407,000 litres of used oil have been collected, avoiding improper disposal of the hazardous waste. At an average 75% yield in re-refining, that volume produced 305,000 litres of recovered base oil, equivalent to a reduction of 1,107.42 tonnes of CO2 equivalent against the same quantity made from first-refining oil.

Marcelo Murad, base oils director at Lwart, said the company delivers a feedstock of quality equal to or better than first-refining oil. Lwart is described as the only re-refiner in Latin America producing high-performance Group II base oil. The company produced roughly 180 million litres of base oils in 2024, reintroduced into the market for industrial, agricultural, automotive and electrical customers.

The scale gap between the two halves of the story is the point. A single year of collection under the IVECO programme yielded 305,000 litres of base oil against Lwart's 180 million litres of annual output, so the OEM circular loop remains a small slice of the re-refiner's book even as it supplies the emissions arithmetic the truck maker can put in front of fleet buyers.

The renewal was reported by Traficmedia on July 17, 2026, in an article by Larisa Ilinescu, and by etransport.pl on July 21, 2026, citing IVECO as the source of the release. The Lwart results were published the same day by ESG Inside.