• 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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  • Japanese carmakers expand Takata airbag recall

    • June 25, 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Industry News
    Japanese carmakers expand Takata airbag recall
    BBC reports that Japanese car giants Toyota, Nissan and Mitsubishi have expanded a recall of cars to replace airbags made by Takata. The recalls had initially been issued in North America, but have now been extended to the rest of the world. The carmakers said they were calling back a total of 3.2 million cars [...]
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