AkzoNobel has opened a new Performance Coatings production facility in Chonburi, Thailand. With an investment of €31 million, AkzoNobel has expanded its footprint with this ninth production site in the south east Asia region. The new site will help to better serve AkzoNobel customers, and reflects AkzoNobel’s continued commitment to the region. Commenting on the [...]

The annual International Transport Forum (ITF) has presented WhereIsMyTransport with its 2017 Promising Transport Innovation Award. Launched in 2016, UK based WhereIsMyTransport, an open digital platform that provides information on formally and informally run transport services in emerging cities, supporting 20 cities in 10 countries across Africa and the Middle East. WhereIsMyTransport centralises mobility data [...]

Chinese automaker Zhejiang Geely Holding will buy a 49.9% stake in struggling carmaker Proton from Malaysian conglomerate DRB-Hicom reports Automotive News Europe. Geely is the parent company of Hong Kong-based Geely Automobile Holdings and Sweden’s Volvo Car Group. Malaysia’s government made a 1.5 billion ringgit (£270.6m) loan to Proton in April 2016, which allowed it to [...]

Volvo Cars’ Senior Vice President of Design, Thomas Ingenlath, has won the ‘Design Hero’ award at the 2017 Autocar Awards. Ingenlath has been at Volvo since 2012 and has led a team of designers that have revolutionised Volvo design – and in turn helped make Volvos among the most desirable premium cars on sale today. [...]

Toyota Research Institute, a wholly owned unit of Toyota Motor North America, has partnered with MIT Media lab and five other companies to explore blockchain technology for the development of driverless cars. In a statement Toyota claimed the project would enable businesses and consumers to securely share data on testing and driving as well as [...]