Nora Lighting Executive Vice President Jilla Farzan spearheaded a team effort to raise funds and donate building materials for Homes For Our Troops, a privately-funded non-profit organization that builds specially-adapted homes for vets who ...
Tags: rail systems, recessed lighting, multiple lighting systems, Lights
General Motors has received 108 more claims seeking compensation of injury and deaths related to faulty ignition switch. The company previously set up a compensation program worth $400m for the same, and till now it has received a ...
Tags: compensation program, ignition switch, Auto
A new customized, integrated flexo printing solution has been introduced by Denmark-based flexo technology provider TRESU for the detergent industry which will help it to comply with a new European safety directive. The new safety ...
Tags: control system, space-saving printing module, Agriculture
Honda Motor has been fined $70m in penalties by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) for not reporting deaths, injuries, and certain warranty claims. The penalty is divided into two parts, a maximum civil penalty ...
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced today that Gerber Legendary Blades, a division of Fiskars Brands Inc., of Madison, Wis., has agreed to pay a $2.6 million civil penalty and abide by a permanent injunction. In a ...
Tags: mechanical hazard, federal law, Security
Ford is issuing two safety recalls in North America. No accidents or injuries are attributed to either of these conditions. Ford is issuing a safety recall for approximately 12,200 2014 Ford Escape and 2015 Lincoln MKC vehicles in North ...
Tags: Nickel Plating, Ignition Switches, Auto
General Motors (GM) is recalling around 83,572 sport-utility vehicles and pickup trucks due to issues with the ignition switch. The issue was uncovered during an internal review by the company. The recalle would involve Chevrolet ...
Tags: Ignition Switch, engine power, Auto
POC, Volvo and Ericsson will present an innovative safety technology connecting drivers and cyclists for the first time ever at International CES in Las Vegas Jan. 6-9. The technology consists of a connected car and helmet prototype that ...
Tags: cycling, skiing, outdoor sports, Sporting Goods
Automotive suppliers will quality check more than 300 million airbag-inflator systems using sophisticated helium- and hydrogen-based leak-detection technology in 2015. Frontal airbags have reduced fatalities in frontal crashes by up to 25 ...
Tags: Detection Technology, Airbag, Auto
Chrysler has announced that it is adding 208,783 to it ongoing recall list to replace passenger-side air-bag inflators supplied by Takata. The latest recall will include older model vehicles that were bought or registered across five ...
The British product design and development firm Cambridge Consultants has created a new low-cost, durable and very attractive looking smart fabricthat can track body movement. Interwoven with fibre optic thread that acts as active ...
Tags: Tracking Fabric, Apparel
Nissan is planning to recall around 470,000 sport utility vehicles and cars globally over issues related to a possible fuel leak. Reuters cited a document posted by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) which ...
Chrysler has announced that it will be voluntarily replacing front passenger-side airbag inflators to fix issues with its deployment. Around 149,150 vehicles are affected with the issue which includes 2003 version of Ram 1500, 2500 and ...
In the medical sector, compression textiles are mainly used to prevent various illnesses, or to treat them, or to improve quality of life. However, compression textiles are increasingly also being used in the non-medical sector and are ...
Toyota Motor has announced recall of around 57,000 vehicles worldwide, to replace the potentially failed Takata's air bag inflators. Since 2008, over 16 million vehicles have been recalled by several car manufacturers due to problems ...
Tags: Air Bags