International expert organisation DEKRA officially opened its connected car test area in Malaga, Spain as part of its international network for connected, automated and electric driving. At the opening, DEKRA’s experts organised two live connected car demos utilising BMW vehicles and showed some of the scenarios DEKRA has developed to test V2X technologies (vehicle-to-everything e.g. [...]

Consultants The Romans Group has published a white paper which predicts a slowing down of consolidation within the North American collision repair market. Its 11th annual Advancing Our Insights into the 2016 Collision Repair Marketplace report says, ‘Consolidation within the collision repair industry is slowing and we now have at least one ‘category killer’ among [...]

AkzoNobel shareholders have approved the separation of its Specialty Chemicals business at an Extraordinary General Meeting. The move is part of its strategy to create two focused, high performing businesses; Paints and Coatings and Specialty Chemicals. AkzoNobel intends to return the vast majority of the net proceeds from the separation to its shareholders, starting with [...]

PPG has announced the completion of a $1.4m investment at its automotive adhesives and sealants (A&S) manufacturing and research and development (R&D) centre in Saint-Just-en-Chaussée, France. The upgrades to the facility include new structural adhesives and waterborne LASD (liquid applied sound damper) manufacturing cells, improved laboratory and testing space, upgraded equipment to simulate automotive body [...]