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 [...]

Visitors to Autopromotec 2017 will be able to go on a virtual tour through the bodyshop of the future, seeing what technologies will be available and how the role of professionals will change. Autopromotec takes place in Bologna, Italy from 24-28 May. The OFFICINA 4.0: Proof of Concept project is an exclusive preview and responds [...]

Volkswagen has appointed Larry Thompson as independent compliance monitor under the terms of its settlements with the United States government. ‘Volkswagen welcomes the appointment of Larry Thompson to this new position, and we intend to cooperate fully with his important work. We have taken significant steps to strengthen accountability, enhance transparency and build a better [...]

Solus, the nationwide network of accident repair centres owned and operated by Aviva, is working with Thatcham Research and Emergent Network Intelligence (ENI) in developing artificial intelligence to speed the repair process. The Intelligent Vehicle Inspection (IVI) software developed by ENI, a Verisk Analytics business, uses state-of-the-art image recognition and analytics data to identify when [...]

Chinese internet giant Baidu has said it will share much of the technology it has created for its self-driving cars to other carmakers, with some technologies available as early as July. Called Apollo, the project will make a range of software, hardware and data services available to other manufacturers. Baidu, described as China’s Google, has [...]