Test systems and position sensors suppliers MTS Systems Corporation and CATARC (China's Automotive Technology & Research Center) have consolidated their tie-up with the latter’s opening of a new test facility in China. Backed by the ...
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TomTom (TOM2) has announced the launch of its traffic service in Kuwait, extending its reach in the region, and adding to existing coverage in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. TomTom provides the latest accurate traffic information for highways, ...
US based vehicle remarketing services Cox Automotive has voluntarily pulled out its filing under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act as amended to provide the US Department of Justice additional time for reassessing the ...
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Working in partnership with BusTech, Swinburne University of Technology has helped develop the first electric bus to be designed, engineered and manufactured in Australia. The first concept demonstrator bus has been unveiled at the ...
Tags: new electric bus, auto parts and accessories, vehcile technology
XSpark, BASF’s Coatings division has developed a color effect that has now been honored in one of the world’s most prestigious design competitions: the Red Dot Award: Product Design. For the first time in the 60-year history ...
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The world’s first plastic transmission crossbeam in the rear axle subframe has been developed by ContiTech Vibration Control and BASF for the S-Class from Mercedes-Benz. It is made from the engineering plastic Ultramid A3WG10 CR, a ...
Tags: plastic transmission crossbeam, Mercedes S-Class, polyamides
ContiTech Vibration Control and chemical producer BASF, both of them based in Germany, have introduced plastic transmission crossbeam in the rear axle for Mercedes-Benz’s S-Class vehicles leading to weight reduction by around a ...
Tags: automobile manufacture, Mercedes-Benz, S-Class vehicles
American private investment firm Bain Capital has completed acquiring UK-based automobile fluid storage firm TI Automotive. TI Automotive president, CEO and chairman of the board Bill Kozyra, who will go on discharging his current ...
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Japan-based Kyocera Corporation will come up with a new facility for industrial cutting tools in China’s Jiangxi Province to cater to the increasing demand from the automotive industry. With operations set to start in January ...
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BASF SE has entered into a technology license agreement with EM.tec design GmbH for the production of valure. The new production plant, located in Bingen, Germany, will have an annual capacity of about 1.5 million square meters of surface ...
By the year 2020 the first cylinder housings manufactured from polymer composite materials will be introduced into passenger car and motorcycle engines, replacing the aluminium components currently in use, predicts SBHPP High Performance ...
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Conventional and electrified driveline systems firm GKN Automotive has come up with its headquarters unit for the Americas region at Auburn Hills in Michigan, US, to capitalize on consumer demand for all-wheel drive (AWD) and hybrid ...
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Tech Mahindra, a specialist in digital transformation, consulting and business re-engineering has announced the launch of Automotive Aftermarket Suite. It enables Tech Mahindra to offer innovative solutions in the space of Telematics, ...
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German technical and decorative plastic materials firm Benecke-Kaliko has kicked off work for construction of a new 7,000 square metre unit near its plant in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, for producing Tepeo and Tepeo 2 foils for automotive ...
Tags: Benecke-Kaliko, New Mexican Unit