Tube Specialties Company (TSCO), a well-established subcontract producer of large-diameter tubular parts to the US heavy truck industry, is currently installing five of Unison’s advanced CNC tube bending machines. The machines provide precision servomotors-based all-electric bending potential, effective for designing a wide variety of tubular parts within the automotive sector.
According to the Global and Chinese Automotive Aluminum Wheel Industry Report, released by Research and Markets, the Chinese wheel export reached US$4.382 billion in 2011. Steel wheels accounted to US$696 million with a 40% growth and aluminum wheels reached US$3.886 billion with a 24.8% increase, thus setting new records in the industry.
BASF, headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey, has released the results of its worldwide automotive color trend report. The report includes forecast of BASF color experts from Asia, Europe, South America and North America on the future automotive colors.
BASF announced that its new Ultradur LUX B4300 G4 plastic material, toughened with 20% glass fibers, is now being used by Precision Motors Deutsche Minebea (PM DM), a Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany-based motor development center, to build the housing cover of an innovative air flap control unit.
Sicmat, a manufacturer of gear finishing machine tools for the automotive industry, has developed Grono 250, a gear honing machine which features a high performance 11-axis CNC technology from NUM and an innovative gear honing wheel equipped with external teeth.
Hanover (Germany) based automotive supplier, Continental and Seoul (South Korea) based SK Innovation have signed an agreement in Frankfurt to jointly establish a company that would develop and supply first class battery technology to the automotive industry.
The Eastman Chemical Company has bagged the Frost and Sullivan 2012 New Product Innovation Award in the Automotive Glazing Materials category.
Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) have for the first time developed a coating with a surface that repairs itself after damage.
This new coating has numerous potential applications - for example ...
BASF will upgrade and expand its emissions catalysts manufacturing plant situated in Nienburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. The company will make the investment via its global Catalysts division.
DuPont announced that its material science innovations have helped SIM-Drive, a company based in Kawasaki City, Japan, to achieve a breakthrough in electric vehicle (EV) technology. DuPont has collaborated with SIM-Drive to work on the prototype SIM-WIL EV vehicle that includes about 50 new technologies.
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