Audrey LaForest

Collin Shaw, the manufacturers association's chief commercial vehicle officer and COO for its Original Equipment Suppliers group, will succeed Fream on April 1.

NHTSA said the new standards will require an industrywide fleet average of about 49 mpg in the 2026 model year.

White House National Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy and Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm spoke of how the Biden administration is steering an EV transformation in the U.S. during opening keynotes at SAE International's 2022 Government/Industry Meeting.

Any lingering hopes from the auto sector that Trump-era tariffs on Chinese imports would be quickly removed under President Joe Biden were further diminished this month as the administration begins to readjust U.S. trade policies toward China.

President-elect Joe Biden will take office next week with the narrowest of Democratic majorities in the Senate, carrying potential for changes to the auto industry, from environmental policy to consumer finance.

Members of the Michigan congressional delegation are asking U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to provide financial assistance to auto suppliers using existing funds within the $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief package signed into law in March.

Volkswagen AG, General Motors Co. and BMW AG, for example, all have a "rich history" of using additive manufacturing to produce spare parts, tooling and other low-volume components, according to Ford Motor Co.'s Ellen Lee. But automotive has specific needs in terms of scale, cost and materials that differ from other industries.

US Extruders Inc. now has a complete line of extruders designed specifically for the medical industry that it will be showing for the first time at MD&M West this month. The company, a manufacturer of custom single-screw extruders in Westerly, R.I., introduced its first-generation Med-Ex extruder at the show last year.

As manufacturing facilities close temporarily, several suppliers within the plastics and automotive industries are scrambling with broader impacts from the spreading epidemic.

The Horsham, Pa.-based company, which designs, develops and manufactures custom composite materials for the commercial, energy and defense sectors, is expanding into a second manufacturing plant in Greenville that will allow the company to continue to grow its production operations.

The 3,000-square-foot office serves as the company's waste and metals recycling headquarters for customers operating in North, Central and South America. It can accommodate up to 20 employees, with additional room to grow.

Specialty tubing extruder Fluortek Inc. has purchased a second facility in Easton, Pa., about five minutes from its headquarters.

Teijin Ltd. is expanding its footprint in Europe with Teijin Automotive Center Europe GmbH, a new base in Wuppertal, Germany, that will house technical functions for the company's automotive composites business.

As CH3 Solutions LLC brings in bigger equipment and bigger business, the open space on its manufacturing floor is shrinking. This has led the company to swap out some of its smaller-tonnage injection molding machines as it makes room for the big ones.