AkzoNobel is helping bodyshops improve efficiency today and stay relevant tomorrow with a new digital colour-matching solution. Already thousands of bodyshops around the world are benefitting from Colorvation, a cloud-based solution that AkzoNobel claims makes colour matching easier, faster and more accurate. Instead of the guesswork of colour swatches, a subjective process that can depend [...]

Samsung has unveiled a battery that it claims can give electric cars a driving range of up to 310.7 miles on a 20 minute charge. The South Korean company said the battery can offer a complete driving range of up to 373 miles, with a 20-minute charge giving the battery 80 per cent capacity. ‘This [...]

Thanks to the accelerated integration of TRW, which took about 14 months, ZF has now moved ahead as a ‘cohesive aftermarket business’. ZF Aftermarket now lays claim to being the second largest supplier of parts, services and solutions in the global automotive aftermarket. ‘We are on-site where our customers expect us to be with committed [...]

CSN Blue Mountain Collision in Ontario has built a new bodyshop using Symach’s FixLine System. The new CSN Blue Mountain Collision centre, due to open in spring, is a 10,700sqft facility based on Collingwood, Ontario. The centre includes a layout and repair process that combines Symach’s patented Drytronic technology, specialised drying robots and the Symach [...]

Sukhpal Ahluwalia, founder of Euro Car Parts and Badri Baldawa, founder of Seeba Group of Companies, have jointly and equally invested in EcoCentric, one of India’s fastest growing companies providing e-waste management solutions. Both Sukhpal and Badri will sit on the board of the company. The Asian entrepreneurs have invested an undisclosed sum into the [...]