IBM has unveiled a cloud-based service designed to help automakers turn driver and vehicle data into actionable insights. The cloud service will facilitate real-time diagnostics on engine trouble; provide insights for predictive ...
Tags: IBM, connected devices, vehicles
The seat is where drivers and passengers have most of their contact with a vehicle, which is why it plays such a decisive role in how a car is perceived by the user. Thanks to sophisticated electronic and pneumatic systems, modern-day car ...
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Continental has broken ground on $500m expansion of its Sumter facility to double tire production to eight million units by 2021. The Phase 2 expansion will increase the production from four million units planned for 2016. Expanded ...
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Hybrid packaging supplier Berlin Packaging has acquired rigid packaging supplier Vivid Packaging, which has its business networks spread across 25 states in the US as well as Canada and Mexico. With this, Berlin Packaging has completed ...
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Axalta Coating Systems has joined Ducks Unlimited as its newest corporate partner. A major developer, manufacturer and seller of industrial coatings in the United States and 130 countries around the world, Axalta continues to make ...
Continental has reached an important milestone in its research project for the industrialisation of dandelion rubber in tyre production. In the autumn of last year, Continental presented the first test tyres in a limited series made from ...
Swiss food business Aryzta has acquired Irish-owned gourmet food products supplier La Rousse Foods. La Rousse Foods operates own butchery, cheese-maturing room and chocolate lab to cater to more than 1,300 corporate customers in Ireland. ...
Tags: food production, fresh food, seasonal food
Lightweight composite materials firm Continental Structural Plastics (CSP) has claimed that TCA Ultra Lite, currently in production for General Motors’ (GM) 2016 Chevrolet Corvette, has pared down 20lb (9kg) from the Stingray Coupe ...
Automotive giant BMW and global energy firm Total have jointly opened a hydrogen station, armed with a first-of-its-kind, two-mode refueling system, at Detmoldstrasse, Munich, in Germany. With this, the European HyFIVE project's South ...
Continental has announced a voluntary recall program involving approximately 8,500 passenger vehicle tires. The tires involved in the recall are Continental ContiProContact 225/45 R17 91 H produced between February and May 2015 and sold ...
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R.D. Abbott Company, Inc. (RDA), a full-service rubber industry supplier, has signed a new distribution agreement with the Tire and Specialty Rubber (TSR) business unit of LANXESS Corporation to expand its distribution of LANXESS TSR ...
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Stemco, an EnPro Industries company, announces its acquisition of the manufacturer of Goodyear air springs, as well as Super Cushion and Spring Ride air springs, from ContiTech, a division of Continental Corporation. This business unit ...
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Nomad Holdings has completed the previously announced acquisition of frozen food company Iglo Foods from Permira Advisers for €2.6bn. Said to be Europe's largest branded frozen food company, Iglo operates in 12 countries in Europe, ...
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Automotive supplier Continental will introduce solutions at the 36th International Vienna Motor Symposium which will help diesel engines meet nitrogen-oxide (NOx) legislative limits in the future. This comes in response to stricter NOx ...
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The European economy is forecast to grow by circa 1.2% this year, given fresh impetus by the €60 billion a month of quantitative easing recently initiated by the ECB. This has caused a significant depreciation of the euro; we’ll ...