The result of stable production processes and exacting quality requirements: The "coupling legend", ZF's AS Tronic, the automatic transmission system for heavy commercial vehicles, has achieved a landmark figure over the past few days. One ...
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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 ...
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It's just like Domino's Pizza: service within a certain window, or you get compensation. Except that it isn't pizza being delivered, it's remanufactured components such as differentials and drive shafts to get your trucks back on the road ...
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Meritor's first-ever delivery van, ready to carry replacement and rebuilt parts to wherever within 100 km they're needed. EDMONTON — Say your truck breaks down and the service tech finds out that the differential needs immediate ...
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Automotive driveline components manufacturer GKN Driveline has broken ground on the expansion of its CVJ systems production plant in Chongqing, China. For this expansion, GKN Chongqing Driveshaft (GDC), a joint venture by GKN, Shanghai ...
A year, almost to the day, after its spectacular launch, the new Volvo FH was elected International Truck of the Year 2014 by leading commercial vehicle journalists, representing 25 magazines throughout Europe. The Truck of the Year award ...
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Automotive driveline components manufacturer cDriveline has expanded its partnership with the German vehicle maker BMW to supply front axle for BMW X Series Sports Activity Vehicles that will be used to convert the rear-wheel drive vehicles ...
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JTEKT, a Japanese manufacturer of steering systems, driveline components, bearings and machine tools, is planning to invest $102m to construct a new facility in South Carolina, US. The company said that the new facility will expand its ...
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Driveline supplier plans more investments, new capacity GKN Driveline has started production on a new forging line at its plant in Celaya, Mexico — the third line installed there since the plant was inaugurated in 1979. The new ...
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