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7th June 2024
Prof. Feng Zhou awarded Peter Jost Tribology Award

The Peter Jost Tribology Award is a new award, established in 2020 by the ITC to honor the late Prof....

29th May 2024
Call for Peter Jost Tribology Award 2025

The deadline to apply for the Peter Jost Tribology Award is 1st of May 2025!

25th August 2023
Brazilian tribology created a National Research Centre on Tribology focused on the energy transition

A significant achievement by the Brazilian tribology network (TriboBr) should substantially impact...

27th June 2023
ITC Thanks Past Executive Board Members

Jianbin Luo, Kenneth Holmberg and Ali Erdemir have recently stepped down as members of the International...

3rd January 2023
Message from the new ITC President Prof. em. Nicholas D. Spencer

Fellow Tribologists! It is with great pleasure that I take on the position of ITC President, with...

7th November 2022
Dr. Bo Persson awarded Tribology Gold Medal 2022

Bo Persson, who was born in Sweden, studied Physics at Chalmers University in Göteborg, getting a PhD...

2nd November 2022
Professor Herbert Cheng has passed away

This is a great loss to the entire Tribology community.

1st June 2022
Invitation to meeting of ITC Council in session

For member society officials only.

30th May 2022
President's corner: On the Role of Tribology in a Sustainable Future

Since the Industrial Revolution, the persistent increase of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has reached...

17th February 2022
The team from the State Key Laboratory of Tribology at Tsinghua University in China, succeeded with getting better ice for the 24th Winter Olympic Games

On February 4, 2022, the 24th Winter Olympic Games opened at the National Stadium in Beijing providing...

3rd December 2021
Prof. Daniele Dini awarded 1st Peter Jost Tribology Award

The Peter Jost Tribology Award is a new award, established in 2020 by the ITC to honor the late Prof....

20th September 2021
Dr. Jim Greenwood awarded Tribology Gold Medal for 2021

Dr. Greenwood’s published work has had an enormous influence on the development of the understanding...

16th April 2021
ITC Letter of Condolences to Her Royal Majesty the Queen and the Royal family

The International Tribology Council (ITC) join many around the world in mourning the loss of HRH The...

12th April 2021
Memorial Year 2021 – 100th birthday of the "Father of Tribology" Prof H. Peter JOST, 55th birthday of “Tribology”

Recently, there were two commemorative milestones for the tribological community: 25 January 2021 was...

9th April 2021
Tribology Gold Medal 2021 nominations

Nominations for the 2021 Tribology Gold Medal are still open until the 31st of May 2021.

6th January 2021
Professor Bharat Bhushan awarded Tribology Gold Medal for 2020

In recognition of his outstanding achievements in Tribology, with five decades of distinguished and...

20th November 2020
Professor Bharat Bhushan receives ASME Mayo D. Hersey Award

Professor Bharat Bhushan, Ohio Eminent Scholar and Howard D. Winbigler Professor and Director of...

19th November 2020
Dr Robert Ian Taylor awarded Tribology Silver Medal 2020

Dr Ian Taylor has been awarded the Tribology Silver Medal in recognition of his exceptionally meritorious...

21th September 2020
Professor Jean Michel Martin of Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France awarded Tribology Gold Medal for 2019

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London, has announced that the winner of the 2019 Gold Medal...

14th August 2020
Professor Mark Robbins has passed away

This is a great loss to the entire Tribology community.

4th August 2020
Tribology Gold Medal 2020 nominations

Nominations for the 2020 Tribology Gold Medal are open until the 31st of October 2020.

2nd August 2020
The first Peter Jost Tribology Award call for nominations is now open!

The deadline for nominations is the 1st of January 2021.

20th April 2020
MYTRIBOS organises a drive to combat coronavirus

The society has organised face shields donation and a reach out event.

7th January 2020
Professor Duncan Dowson has passed away

This is a great loss to all of us in the Tribology field.

22th August 2019
Professor Nicholas D. Spencer of ETH Zurich, Switzerland awarded Tribology Gold Medal for 2018

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London, has announced that the winner of the 2018 Gold Medal...

21th August 2019
ITC Activities Report

ITC’s 24th In-session Meeting (to be held in Lyon-France on Sunday, 1st September 2019) nearly marks...

30th July 2019
President's Corner: Moving forward with Peter Jost’s legacy for a green, clean, and sustainable future

Prof. H. Peter Jost, the founding father of modern-day tribology and the first President of the...

1st February 2018
Special Issue: Report on World Tribology Congress 2017

The sixth World Tribology Congress took place at the Beijing International Convention Centre, between...