A new date for the 7th CLEPA Aftermarket Conference has been announced. The conference was due to take place in Belgium in November but was postponed following the terrorist attack in Paris. Instead, it will now be held on 10 March 2016, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Airport in Brussels. The topics are ‘Future mobility’ [...]

Toyota and Ford are set to discuss strategies for modelling and material failure simulation of lightweight materials at a GALM series event in Detroit, USA later this month. The Modeling, Simulation and Crash Testing Summit 2016 features presentations and panels on modelling and simulation for aluminum, composites, magnesium, multi-material joining, lifecycles and more from some [...]

The Renault-Nissan Alliance will launch more than 10 vehicles with autonomous drive technology in the next four years. The global car group will launch a range of vehicles with autonomous capabilities in the US, Europe, Japan and China through 2020. The technology will be installed on mainstream, mass-market cars at affordable prices. In addition, Renault-Nissan [...]

Volvo Car UK is celebrating its best sales performance in 21 years, with 43,432 cars sold in 2015. This figure helped Volvo Cars achieve a record-breaking global sales figure of 503,127 in 2015 – the first time Volvo has sold more than half a million cars in its 89-year history. The UK sales figure represents [...]

Axalta Coating Systems is celebrating 150 years of creating innovative industrial coatings in 2016. Axalta’s heritage dates back to 1866 when its first products were developed in Germany and since then the company has grown into one of the world’s leading manufacturers of liquid and powder coatings. ‘All of us at Axalta are excited to [...]