Show vehicles featuring products from BASF Automotive Refinish Solutions on display at the 2012 Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, have been recognized with awards from several organizations.
Alcoa (NYSE:AA) today congratulated Tesla Motors on the Tesla Model S electric vehicle, an all-aluminum premium sedan, being named Automobile Magazine’s 2013 Car of the Year.
Today, Trelleborg inaugurates two operations in India, co-located in one facility in Bengaluru. The facility will develop and produce industrial antivibration systems and specialty molded components for various industrial segments. Industrial antivibration systems are used for vibration damping in, for example, rail, off-highway equipment and other industrial segments. Specialty molded components, molded polymer materials, are found in a range of industrial applications and in such industries as telecommunications, energy and general industry.
Within the automotive industry, lightweight construction offers a solution to the development of more economical and more ecologically viable vehicles. The more steel components that are replaced by lighter materials such as aluminum, the lower is the weight reduction achieved and the greater is the saving in both fuel consumption and emissions. Drive performance also improves.
Ford Battery Pack and Citroën Rear Quarter Window with SABIC Materials Recognized among Year's Best Automotive Plastic Innovations
SABIC's Innovative Plastics business today commended Ford Motor Company ...
LINE-X Protective Coatings, the nation's leading developer and provider of high performance protective coatings, will feature a surprising vehicle unveiling in their 2012 Specialty Equipment Market Association Show booth #34135 today, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, at 3:00 p.m., in collaboration with the world famous design team from West Coast Customs. In an effort to showcase their product applications available beyond the traditional truck market, LINE-X will debut a new exterior application, LINE-X Body Armour on the LINE-X Camaro, a customized 2013 Chevrolet Camaro 1SS Coupe.
Arotech Corporation announced today that its Battery and Power Systems Division has received an order to develop prototypes for a lithium battery for hybrid electric vehicles.
Benteler-SGL GmbH, a joint venture of Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbH and SGL Group, hosted a grand opening ceremony of the new production facility of Benteler-SGL in Ort im Innkreis, Austria last week. Composite components will be manufactured for the first time in serial production at the state-of-the-art 45,000 m² site starting in middle of 2013.
Sweden: To meet increasingly stricter demands from the automotive industry, the popularity of Ultra High Strength Docol MZE steels from SSAB, which feature an electro galvanized coating, have increased rapidly. Now, the next generation of these steels, Docol 1400 MZE, is providing automotive manufactures with a way to take safety, innovation and cost-efficiency to a new level.
At a China seminar today in Stockholm, Sweden, Jan Carlson, the President and CEO of Autoliv, announced that the world-leading automotive safety company has started the construction of a new facility in China that will manufacture propellant for its airbags in the Asian markets. The cost for the new plant is estimated to amount to $33 million, making it the single largest capital expenditure in the Company’s history. The propellant plant will be Autoliv’s twelfth manufacturing facility in China.
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