• Service King sweeps work awards

    • July 3, 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Industry News
    Service King sweeps work awards
    Service King Collision Repair Centres, an industry-leading multi-state operator of high-quality collision repair services, swept the Dallas and San Antonio Business Journals’ Best Places to Work awards presented this month. Service King was named the No. 1 Best Place to Work in the very large business category at both ceremonies, held June 18 and June [...]
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  • Service King unveils Apprentice Development Programme

    • June 30, 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Industry News
    Service King unveils Apprentice Development Programme
    Service King Collision Repair Centers has unveiled its most innovative recruiting and development effort in the company’s 39-year history with the launch of the Service King Apprentice Development Programme. The revolutionary program offers a highly immersive, fully compensated 52-week training course developed to prepare incoming technicians for careers at Service King. The Apprentice Development Program [...]
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  • Symach sells to Bogemans

    • June 30, 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Industry News
    Symach sells to Bogemans
    Symach has sold to Bogemans in Brussels a new body shop complete with all range of products with the FixLine formula. The new body shop will be installed in September this year, this new formula of shop will have also a considerable reduction in labor costs of repair through using three different repair processes depending [...]
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  • ABRA to expand in Pacific Northwest

    • June 29, 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Industry News
    ABRA to expand in Pacific Northwest
    ABRA Auto Body & Glass and its principal owner Hellman & Friedman, LLC, is pleased to announce today a definitive agreement to acquire 23 Kadel’s Auto Body locations in Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Details of the agreement were not disclosed. The announcement is a strategic move underscoring ABRA’s ongoing and aggressive growth plan across the [...]
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  • Axalta examines lightweight body design at SURCAR 2015

    • June 29, 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Industry News
    Axalta examines lightweight body design at SURCAR 2015
    Dr. Klemens Bartmann, global director technology OEM for Axalta Coating Systems a global supplier of liquid and powder coatings, spoke at the 28th International Conference on Automotive Body Finishing (SURCAR) in Cannes, France. Dr Bartmann’s speech concentrated on Axalta’s lightweight multi-substrate body design and low bake coatings, and outlined how Axalta is creating new levels [...]
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