Lubricants and tribological systems are undergoing rapid change. The challenges and uncertainties are enormous. Ecological challenges such as the de-carbonization of industry, mobility and society on the one hand, economic challenges such as the resilience of global supply chains on the other, are changing the way lubricants and tribological systems will be developed, validated, produced and applied in the future.

Within the Nextlub program innovative solutions will be addressed to cope with the major challenges of future tribology engineering. The topics span from base materials and chemical compositions over new design, development and validation requirements to new applications and operation boundaries. Join the Nextlub conference and gather insights and impressions about future lubricants and tribo-systems. Sustainability, ecological and geopolitical demands create new challenges for tribologists and lubrication experts. Promoting appropriate innovative technologies and closing knowledge gaps are the intentions of the 1st Nextlub conference.