PPG has completed a $7.8 million investment at its Coatings Innovation Center in Allison Park, Pennsylvania, just 20 minutes from its global headquarters in Pittsburgh. The upgrades to the facility include increased laboratory and testing space and upgraded equipment that improves the technical capabilities of the company’s primary research and development facility for paint and [...]

US-based Service King Collision Repair Centers has recognised the growing value of data protection in the industry by naming Anil Varghese as its first ever chief information security officer. Varghese has two decades of global experience in the information technology sector, having worked at American Express and Sony, and his appointment continues Service King’s ongoing investment [...]

Volvo Car Group trebled its operating profit for 2015 whilst reporting an all-time sales record of 503,127 cars, the first time it has sold more than half a million cars in its 89-year history. Volvo Cars expects to make record sales in 2016 for the third consecutive year, Håkan Samuelsson, Volvo Cars’ president and chief [...]

Ford is developing robust chassis systems to withstand potholes. Potholes and other rough road surfaces can be a costly problem for motorists, with the RAC responding to more than 25,000 pothole-related breakdowns in the UK in 2015, at an average cost to the driver of £300. To combat this, Ford has created 1.2‑miles of gruelling [...]

Australian insurance company Suncorp has bought out LKQ Corporation’s stake in the ACM parts business. ACM (Australian Collision and Mechanical Parts) Ltd was a joint venture between Suncorp and American parts providers LKQ Corporation set up in 2013. James Knox, executive general manager of motor claims and Suncorp Insurance Ventures, said, ‘ACM Parts now operates [...]