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Monday, October 16, 2000

ADS Increases Railcar Fleet

ADS Increases Railcar Fleet

Alternative Distribution Systems, Inc. has recently added 25 new high capacity, high speed, new generation steel coil railcars to its existing equipment fleet. ... Continue reading

Barnes Group Announces Third Quarter Results

Barnes Group Announces Third Quarter Results

Barnes Group Inc. announced that diluted earnings per share were $0.49 for the third quarter of 2000, an increase of nine percent from $0.45 per diluted share for the third quarter of 1999. ... Continue reading

Briggs & Stratton Reports Results For the Q1 of Fiscal 2001

Briggs & Stratton Reports Results For the Q1 of Fiscal 2001

Briggs & Stratton Corporation Operations in the first quarter of fiscal 2001 produced a net loss of $6.3 million or $.29 per diluted share compared to net income of $15.3 million or $.66 per share for last year's first quarter. ... Continue reading

Champion Edwards finishes World Superbike with a win

Champion Edwards finishes World Superbike with a win

Champion Edwards finishes World Superbike with a win; Rossi secures second in World 500 GP points ... Continue reading

Detroit Area Ford Dealers Offer Free Child Safety Instruction

Detroit Area Ford Dealers Offer Free Child Safety Instruction

Beginning October 16 at 3 p.m., participating Ford dealers in the Detroit metro area will provide free car safety seat checks and instruction on how to properly restrain children for their optimal protection while travelling in motor vehicles. ... Continue reading

Hitachi's System Architecture is Selected by Delphi and Mannesmann

Hitachi's System Architecture is Selected by Delphi and Mannesmann

Hitachi, Ltd., Semiconductor and Integrated Circuits Group announced that Mannesmann VDO AG of Germany and Delphi Delco Electronics Systems, will base their next-generation car information systems on Hitachi's system architecture. ... Continue reading

InfoGation launches Odyssey 2000

InfoGation launches Odyssey 2000

InfoGation Corp. has announced the immediate availability of Odyssey 2000, the first in-vehicle navigation product offering real-time traffic updates to U.S. drivers. ... Continue reading

InfoMove and Microsoft to Develop Applications for Automobiles

InfoMove and Microsoft to Develop Applications for Automobiles

InfoMove, the leading provider of personalized, location-based applications and wireless services for automobiles, announced an agreement to implement applications based on Microsoft Car.NET framework. ... Continue reading

INTERMET Sells Subsidiary

INTERMET Sells Subsidiary

INTERMET Corporation announced that it has closed on the sale of Iowa Mold Tooling Co., Inc. (IMT) to an affiliate of American Capital Strategies, Ltd. of Bethesda, Maryland. ... Continue reading

IPSCO Announces Sale and Leaseback Arrangement

IPSCO Announces Sale and Leaseback Arrangement

IPSCO Inc. announced that its U.S. subsidiary IPSCO Steel Inc. had entered into a sale and leaseback arrangement covering $150 million U.S. of melt shop and casting equipment at its Montpelier Steelworks. ... Continue reading

IPSCO Inc. Announces Third Quarter Results

IPSCO Inc. Announces Third Quarter Results

IPSCO Inc. announced that its third quarter net income was $12.3 million, down 19 percent from the second quarter of this year and down 40 percent from the third quarter of 1999. ... Continue reading

J. B. Hunt Reports Revenues and Earnings for Q3 of 2000

J. B. Hunt Reports Revenues and Earnings for Q3 of 2000

J. B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc., announced third quarter 2000 net earnings of $9.1 million, or earnings per diluted share of 26 cents, compared with 1999 third quarter net earnings of $5.0 million, or 14 cents per diluted share. ... Continue reading

Johnson Controls Focuses on Creating Technology that Touches People

Johnson Controls Focuses on Creating Technology that Touches People

Johnson Controls has done a lot of searching in its pursuit to supply customers with integrated auto interior electronic products that fulfill the wants and needs of consumers. ... Continue reading

Johnson Controls Helps to Make In-vehicle Technology Safer

Johnson Controls Helps to Make In-vehicle Technology Safer

We've all seen it -- the swerving or erratic lane changes caused by a driver who is talking on a cell phone or trying to write or read notes. ... Continue reading

Johnson Controls Power Seating Approach Offers Comfort Luxuries

Johnson Controls Power Seating Approach Offers Comfort Luxuries

Imagine getting all of the power seating comfort features -- such as heated, ventilated, self-adjusting and massage seating -- along with more room and more reliability. ... Continue reading

Kenwick Filing of Forms 10-SB and 10K-SB Have Been Cleared of Comments

Kenwick Filing of Forms 10-SB and 10K-SB Have Been Cleared of Comments

Kenwick Industries, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has been advised that the Company's filings of FORMS 10-SB AND 10K- SB have been cleared of comments by the Securities and Exchange Commission. ... Continue reading

Mazda Selects MTS for Major Design Improvement Project

Mazda Selects MTS for Major Design Improvement Project

MTS Systems Corporation announced that it was awarded contracts totaling over $20 million for physical testing systems, modeling software, virtual testing tools, and consulting services by Mazda Motor Company, Hiroshima, Japan. ... Continue reading

Monaco Coach Expects Q3 Results Marginally Lower Than Expectations

Monaco Coach Expects Q3 Results Marginally Lower Than Expectations

Monaco Coach Corporation indicated that it expects to announce its third quarter 2000 earnings slightly below expectations. ... Continue reading

NASCAR WCUP: Talladega Caution Couldn't Be Worse For Benson

NASCAR WCUP: Talladega Caution Couldn't Be Worse For Benson

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NASCAR WCUP: Winston 500 Race Results, Talladega

NASCAR WCUP: Winston 500 Race Results, Talladega

NorthernLight IRL: Lazier captures Northern Light Cup; Goodyear rules race ... Continue reading

New Study Identifies Growth Opportunities for Adhesives

New Study Identifies Growth Opportunities for Adhesives

Breakthroughs in automotive and aircraft designs have resulted in a string of announcements describing the successful use of synthetic parts and novel designs in applications previously considered too demanding for non-traditional materials. ... Continue reading

NHRA FMDRS: Race Notes--The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway

NHRA FMDRS: Race Notes--The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway

Race Notes--The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway ... Continue reading

NHRA FMDRS-The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway--Final Results

NHRA FMDRS-The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway--Final Results

FMDRS-The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway--Final Results ... Continue reading

NHTSA and Century Announce Recall of Infant Car Seats/Carriers

NHTSA and Century Announce Recall of Infant Car Seats/Carriers

In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Century Products (Century) of Macedonia, Ohio, is recalling about 4 million infant car seats/carriers. ... Continue reading

NorthernLight IRL: Blueprint Racing closes 2000 IRL season in Texas

NorthernLight IRL: Blueprint Racing closes 2000 IRL season in Texas

BLUEPRINT CLOSES 2000 NORTHERN LIGHT SEASON IN TEXAS ... Continue reading

Northern Light IRL: Boat 'Excited' about third place finish in Texas

Northern Light IRL: Boat 'Excited' about third place finish in Texas

Northern Light IRL: Boat 'Excited' about third place finish in Texas ... Continue reading

Northern Light IRL: Excite 500 Race Results, Texas Motor Speedway

Northern Light IRL: Excite 500 Race Results, Texas Motor Speedway

Northern Light IRL: Excite 500 Race Results, Texas Motor Speedway ... Continue reading

Northern Light IRL: Infiniti/Cheever Finishes Second in Thrilling Excite 500

Northern Light IRL: Infiniti/Cheever Finishes Second in Thrilling Excite 500

Northern Light IRL: Infiniti/Cheever Finishes Second in Thrilling Excite 500 ... Continue reading

NorthernLight IRL: Lazier captures Northern Light Cup; Goodyear rules race

NorthernLight IRL: Lazier captures Northern Light Cup; Goodyear rules race

NorthernLight IRL: Lazier captures Northern Light Cup; Goodyear rules race ... Continue reading

NorthernLight IRL: Pennzoil Panther Racing picks Hornish as driver in 2001

NorthernLight IRL: Pennzoil Panther Racing picks Hornish as driver in 2001

NorthernLight IRL: Pennzoil Panther Racing picks Hornish as driver in 2001 ... Continue reading

Quarterly Revenues Jump 263% for Rubber Technology International

Quarterly Revenues Jump 263% for Rubber Technology International

Rubber Technology International Inc. reported revenues for third quarter of $345,000, compared to $84,000 in revenues for Third Quarter 1999. ... Continue reading

Sensoria Demonstrates Media Gateway in Ford Booth at Convergence 2000

Sensoria Demonstrates Media Gateway in Ford Booth at Convergence 2000

Sensoria Corporation announced that the company will demonstrate the inter-networking capabilities of its Vehicle Service Interface (VSI) gateway at Convergence 2000 in Detroit, Michigan, October 16-18, 2000, in the Ford booth, #1075. ... Continue reading

Siemens Starter Generator Stands Ready To Meet SUV Makers' Targets

Siemens Starter Generator Stands Ready To Meet SUV Makers' Targets

Siemens Automotive's Integrated Starter Generator (ISG) technology is poised to play a leading role in helping Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) makers reach their stated fuel economy improvement goals of up to 25 percent by 2005. ... Continue reading

TH!NK city Electric Car Fleet Arrives in the U.S.

TH!NK city Electric Car Fleet Arrives in the U.S.

The first of several hundred TH!NK city electric vehicles arrived in the U.S. for demonstration programs in San Francisco and Dearborn, Michigan. ... Continue reading

Titan Reports on Latest Developments

Titan Reports on Latest Developments

Titan Technologies, Inc. reports that it has made significant progress on establishing its tire recycling technology in the United States, as well as moving forward to license new plants in both Europe and Asia. ... Continue reading

TOURING: Fitzgerald wins third straight in Speedvision GT at Laguna Seca

TOURING: Fitzgerald wins third straight in Speedvision GT at Laguna Seca

TOURING: Fitzgerald wins third straight in Speedvision GT at Laguna Seca ... Continue reading

Traffic Updates Go Visual with Clarion

Traffic Updates Go Visual with Clarion

The Clarion AutoPC, the world's first in-vehicle computing device introduced in the US market early last year, has just had a powerful new feature added to its already impressive array of third party software and hardware peripherals. ... Continue reading

TRANS AM: Kenny Wilden Wins BFGoodrich Tires Trans-Am Series 100

TRANS AM: Kenny Wilden Wins BFGoodrich Tires Trans-Am Series 100

Kenny Wilden Wins BFGoodrich Tires Trans-Am Series 100; Also Wins Simple Green Clean Sweep ... Continue reading

TRW and Michelin Focus on Advanced Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems

TRW and Michelin Focus on Advanced Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems

Thanks to an agreement between TRW and Michelin, consumers soon will have access to the next development in advanced tire pressure monitoring technology and a new generation of tire and wheel systems. ... Continue reading

TRW Introduces Automated Cabin Comfort

TRW Introduces Automated Cabin Comfort

Unlike most systems on the market, TRW's new Automated Cabin Comfort System uses radiant temperature sensors to factor in the temperature of the interior surfaces of the car or truck. ... Continue reading

TRW's Keyless Vehicle System: Car Starts with the Push of a Button

TRW's Keyless Vehicle System: Car Starts with the Push of a Button

One key to increasing automobile security and convenience is getting rid of keys. TRW's Keyless Vehicle System does just that by eliminating the need for keys to open doors as well as start the car. ... Continue reading

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