The US election results have raised questions concerning the future direction of the NAFTA free trade agreement, which has clear potential implications for the auto industry. Here IHS Markit offers its perspective. The unexpected victory of Donald Trump in the presidential election potentially presents wide ranging implications particularly for trade both inside NAFTA and in [...]

Service King Collision Repair Centres has welcomed the next wave of apprentice technicians to its apprentice development programme. Forty aspiring technicians are set to join the programme (15 November) at ceremonies across the country. Highlighting the day is a group of 11 apprentices set to take part in a Signing Day celebration in Houston at [...]

Exciting new chapters are underway in the careers of the seven winners of the 2016 Infiniti Engineering Academy, as they start their dream engineering placements with Infiniti and the Renault Sport Formula One Team. The winners were initially selected from more than 4,000 hopefuls, having beaten nine of their qualifier peers in their respective regional [...]

Axalta Coating Systems has announced it will build a new manufacturing plant in Nanjing, China. The 170,000m2 site, which will be the company’s third largest operations centre, is expected to be fully operational by the end of 2020 with a product distribution centre and initial manufacturing capability expected to come online by early 2019. It [...]

The BBC reports that Samsung Electronics is to acquire automotive electronics-maker Harman International Industries for about $8bn (£6.4bn) in cash as it makes a big push into connected car technologies. Samsung is quoted as saying automotive electronics was ‘a strategic priority’ as the connected technologies market is expected to grow to $100bn by 2025. ‘The [...]