AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals has announced that its Deventer site in the Netherlands will be transformed into a chemistry and technology innovation hub in 2018. The Open Innovation Centre will be available to chemical start-ups in the new year, backed by a seven-year agreement with the municipality of Deventer. The centre is being supported by the [...]

The Tracy Law Firm has conducted the first of three IIHS moderate-overlap crash tests designed to simulate collision repair conditions following a $42m lawsuit earlier this year. The move follows a ruling by Dallas County jury which found John Eagle Collision Center failed to follow OEM repair procedures on a 2009 Honda Fit which was [...]

The Huf Group is acquiring all the shares in Thai automotive supplier company MHG, which will also be renamed Huf Co Ltd. MHG engages in injection moulding and robotic painting. It employs about 70 people and counts Ford, Automotive Alliance Thailand (a joint venture between Ford and Mazda) and other automotive manufacturers in Thailand among [...]

Upstream Security, a pioneer of the cloud-based cybersecurity platform for connected cars and autonomous vehicles, has secured $9m in Series A funding, led by CRV (Charles River Ventures). The round included expanded investments from Israeli-based Glilot Capital Partners and Maniv Mobility. Following a $2m seed funding round in June, the company will use the latest [...]

Volvo Cars has started to develop its autonomous drive cars with Swedish families who will test its cars on the public roads of Gothenburg and feedback their impressions to Volvo Cars engineers. The first two families, the Hains and the Simonovskis from the Gothenburg area, have now received the Volvo XC90 premium SUVs with which [...]