Swedish car maker Volvo Car is planning to build a $247m car plant in Brazil and build about 15,000-20,000 cars annually in the country. The final decision depends on Brazil's approval of the final details about auto-industry rules that ...
Tags: Volvo, new car plant, Brazil
The Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia (TCFUA) will take its case to Canberra calling on the federal Government to reverse last week’s decision to slash $7 mill from a targeted program for retrenched workers in TCF ...
Tags: TCFUA, TCF industry, dramatic cut, redundant workers
US carmaker Ford Motor together with its joint venture Changan Ford Mazda Automobile, planning to invest additional $600m in China to boost its production capacity at its Chongqing facility by 350,000 vehicles per year. Ford's investment ...
DuPont has agreed to sell its car paint business DuPont Performance Coatings (DPC) to private equity firm Carlyle Group for $4.9bn. DPC manufactures and supplies coating systems primarily for the transportation industry covering ...
Tags: DuPont, DPC, coating systems, car paint business
Japanese carmaker Nissan has recorded 4.845 million units in global sales in the fiscal year 2011, up 15.8% from last year's 4.185 million units, as demand for its vehicles outperformed the total auto industry which increased 4.2%. Nissan ...
Tags: nissan, operating profits, record sales, vehicles, electric vehicle
Robust vehicle sales are providing a boost to Pittsburgh Glass Works, which is adding 50 to 60 employees at its plant in Creighton, East Deer. The facility fabricates glass used mainly for automobile windshields. About 225 employees ...
Tags: glass, vehicle glass, automobile windshields, adding employees
TRW Automotive Holdings (TRW) has unveiled a second generation pedestrian protection system (PPS) that uses a combination of acceleration and pressure sensing technologies to detect a pedestrian impact. The new system uses pressure sensor ...
Tags: pedestrian protection system, pedestrian impact, TRW Automotive Holdings
(China Glass Network) With the coming of cold winter, antifreeze products for auto industry also enter into the selling season. Main market for glass cleaner is in North China, which has lower temperature in winter. Most of the glass ...
Tags: glass cleaner, antifreeze products, package
This two-part entry is actually the second half of my previous post about why there weren’t nearly enough bikes in model year 2012 and why we don’t seem to be able to do anything about the chronic under- or over-supply of ...
Tags: bikes, Model Years
With the increasing use of aluminium in automotive industry over 16 MT of new aluminium capacity is expected to hit the market by 2015. And after China, the Middle East will be the leading supplier for the growing world metal needs. ...
Tags: Top Aluminium Supplier, Middle East, automotive industry
The boss of Holden has called on both sides of Australia's political spectrum to settle their differences and agree to support the local automotive sector ahead of what he believes will be a defining year for the industry. Holden chairman ...
Tags: Automotive Industry, political, federal election, government support
Business Line reported that Honda launched the Amaze sedan in Thailand on November 23rd 2012, with India launch scheduled within the next 6 months. This strategy is similar to the one adopted for the Brio premium hatchback, which was first ...
Taipei, Nov. 16, 2012 (CENS)--The increasingly stringent emission standards are changing the landscape of some automotive markets, in which originally non-mainstream powertrain vehicles might enjoy clear growth. According to a recent ...
Tags: automotive market, powertrain vehicle, diesel engine car, auto industry
(China Glass Network) As the second new kind of futures this year, listing of glass futures is like an arrow on the bowstring. Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange held "Promotion and Investment Strategy Seminar of Glass Futures" jointly with ...
Tags: glass, glass network
Infineon Technologies has introduced an LED driver IC that can deliver RGB ambient lighting in autos, while STMicroelectronics has a new LED bypass IC that can eliminate problems with a failed LED in safety-critical applications such as ...
Tags: LED