Great for your engine, better for the environment

The innovators at Ashland launched an entirely new motor oil category in early 2011 with their latest technology breakthrough: Valvoline NextGen™, the first oil that’s 50 percent recycled oil and 100 percent Valvoline performance.

NextGen starts from a better place than crude oil. Used oil has less contaminants and more oil molecules, so it's better than crude for making new oil. Using the same refining processes as crude, we then make recycled oil better with our special additives for a formula that exceeds industry specifications and delivers the same Valvoline protection.

Best of all, because recycling saves resources, NextGen protects more than your engine—it also protects the environment – it cuts fossil fuel use, lowers emissions and reduces environmental impact.

 Valvoline is an independent producer of motor oil. So we've looked a long time for a quality alternative to virgin crude. Only now does the technology exist to make recycled oil that meets our high performance standards. The fact that NextGen helps reduce everyone's carbon footprint is really just perfect timing. And that makes NextGen even better than new oil.

Our long history of innovation (we invented conventional motor oil, racing motor oil, synthetic blend motor oil and high mileage motor oil) puts us in the ideal position to bring another game-changing motor oil product to the market.