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MUMBAI, INDIA (Feb. 2, 2:15 p.m. ET) -- Binani Industries Ltd., an Indian holding company with a range of commercial interests ranging from plastics to mining, has bought Battice, Belgium-based 3B Fibreglass for 275 million euros ($362 million).
February 2, 2012
SHEPHERDSVILLE, KY. (Feb. 2, 2:15 p.m. ET) -- Magna Seating has opened a 139,500 square foot facility in Bullitt County, Kentucky. The nearly $20 million investment is expected to create up to 450 new jobs within the next few years, according to a news release from Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear.
February 2, 2012
BURSCHEID, GERMANY (Feb. 2, 2:15 p.m. ET) -- Johnson Controls International has joined with luxury mattress manufacturer Harrison Spinks Ltd to integrate pocketed coil spring developed from mattress technology into an automotive seat concept called ComfortThin.
February 2, 2012
SAN ANTONIO (Feb. 2, 1 p.m. ET) -- Plug-in electric cars and hybrids may be getting most of the attention now, but carmakers say they still are investing in future car developments that could use another technology that has been on the automotive back burner for years. “Hydrogen fuel cells are being talked about for the near future,” Hyundai Motor Co.’s North American leader John Krafcik said during the North American International Auto Show.
February 2, 2012
SAN ANTONIO (Feb. 1, 5 p.m. ET) -- Thermoset plastics are in a good position to capitalize on new markets in the auto, aerospace, electronics and other industries, but to take full advantage of that position, producers must learn to work together, some industry leaders say.
February 1, 2012
SAN ANTONIO (Feb. 1, 4:30 p.m. ET) -- Making a concept composite floor structure for sedans is one thing, but the engineers and companies involved with the Automotive Composites Consortium also wanted to make sure the concept could fit into existing auto-manufacturing lines. So as part of the nearly six-year project to develop a structural composite automotive underbody, the members also developed a process to attach it to a steel body structure.
February 1, 2012
JHAGADIA, INDIA (Jan. 31, 6:50 p.m. ET) -- The western Indian state of Gujarat is fast emerging as the next major auto hub. Lanxess AG is tapping into the market with local production, opening an engineering resins compounding plant in Jhagadia on Jan. 31. The company also revealed plans to build a compounding plant in Brazil.
January 31, 2012
LAS VEGAS (Jan. 31, 2:50 p.m. ET) -- A subsidiary of Bayer MaterialScience LLC is exploring automotive and medical applications for its ViviTouch-brand actuator, now used in an external case for Apple Inc.’s fourth-generation iPod Touch device.
January 31, 2012
DETROIT (Jan. 31, 1 p.m. ET) -- On top of the of the $548 million in fines issued by the U.S. Department of Justice Monday, executives from Denso Corp. and Yazaki Corp. will take temporary pay cuts due to their involvement in global antitrust investigations.
January 31, 2012
KRONACH-NEUSES, GERMANY (Jan. 30, 3:30 p.m. ET) -- German auto supplier Dr. Schneider Group will spend 5 million euros to open new manufacturing facilities in China and Mexico. CEO Klaus Fricke said the plants answer requests from customers to expand with them in China and North America. "We are following them and becoming one of the very few automotive plastics suppliers with a global production network," Fricke said.
January 30, 2012
JABLONEC NAD NISOU, CZECH REPUBLIC (Jan. 30, 3:15 p.m. ET) -- Automotive plastics parts processor Megatech Industries has got the green light to expand production at its Czech Republic molding plant in Jablonec nad Nisou.
January 30, 2012
DETROIT (Jan. 30, 2:50 p.m. ET) -- Denso Corp. and Yazaki Corp., two of Japan's largest auto-parts suppliers, have agreed to plead guilty in a widening multicontinent bid-rigging case, the U.S. Department of Justice said today.
January 30, 2012
WASHINGTON (Jan. 27, 12:15 p.m. ET) -- Chevrolet will start placing labels on the back window of all its new cars and trucks as a way to tout the eco-friendly benefits its vehicles, General Motors said this week.
January 27, 2012
DEARBORN, MICH. (Jan. 26, 2:20 p.m. ET) -- Ford Motor Co. is continuing to turn a spotlight on its eco-friendly products, now highlighting door panels made with 50 percent natural content.
January 26, 2012
IRVINE, CALIF. (Jan. 26, 1:10 p.m. ET) -- In a synergistic move, the parent firm of high-purity plastics specialist Beco Manufacturing acquired Teqcom Industries Inc., a maker of fluoropolymer fluid and gas handling components in Santa Ana, Calif.
January 26, 2012
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