Production of Volvo Cars’ new XC60 mid-size SUV is underway at the company’s Torslanda plant in Sweden. The first customer-bound car, a T5 Inscription AWD in Crystal White, rolled off the production line yesterday (Wednesday 26 April). The new car replaces Volvo’s highly successful original XC60, which in the nine years since its launch became [...]

A new chapter for the Italian based manufacturer Rupes has begun with the official start of construction of a new home of Rupes USA Inc in Colorado. On 7 March members of the US offices for Rupes were on hand in the Colorado Tech Center in Louisville, for the official ground breaking ceremony. Upon its [...]

The US automotive industry has installed a new record of approximately 17,500 industrial robots in 2016. In the last seven years, the operational stock increased by about 52,000 units (2010-2016). These are preliminary results published by the Statistical Department of the International Federation of Robotics (IFR). During the same period, the number of jobs in [...]

SEAT has opened a new Health Care and Rehabilitation Centre (CARS), located in its Martorell factory and wholly dedicated to workers’ health and well-being. The company has invested €3.3m in its pioneering facilities in healthcare, preventive and rehabilitation medicine, where a team of 25 professionals will offer personalised services to the company’s 14,500 workers. CARS [...]

AkzoNobel meets shareholders today just 24 hours after PPG raised its proposed bid to €26.9 (£23bn), which the American company has described as its ‘final’ offer. It is the third bid PPG has made for the Dutch company, which has to date rejected all advances. Some shareholders have been dismayed by AkzoNobel’s refusal to meet [...]