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Visteon Announces Plans to Conduct Annual Meeting of Shareholders on June 13

Visteon Announces Plans to Conduct Annual Meeting of Shareholders on June 13

Visteon Corporation announced today that the company's board of directors will conduct its 2013 annual shareholders meeting at 11 a.m. EDT on June 13, 2013, at The London NYC hotel in New York City. Further details will be included in the company's proxy materials for the annual meeting, which will be made available in ... Continue reading

IIHS Top Safety Pick+ Winners Feature TRW Safety Technology

IIHS Top Safety Pick+ Winners Feature TRW Safety Technology

Seven vehicle models recently named 2013 Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) TOP SAFETY PICK+ winners feature various automotive safety technologies supplied by TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. , the global leader in active and passive safety. The new TOP SAFETY PICK+ designation was recently handed out by IIHS ... Continue reading

Volvo Cars Makes Driving at Night Safer and More Comfortable with Innovative, Permanent High Beam

Volvo Cars Makes Driving at Night Safer and More Comfortable with Innovative, Permanent High Beam

The new Volvo S60, V60 and XC60 - shown to the public for the first time at the Geneva Motor Show - can be fitted with an innovation that makes driving in the dark safer and more comfortable. The renewed Active High Beam Control makes it possible to use high beam continuously thanks to an ingenious mechanism that preve ... Continue reading

Vehicle adaptation for people with disabilities in the spotlight at the International Motor Show in Geneva

Vehicle adaptation for people with disabilities in the spotlight at the International Motor Show in Geneva

Stenkullen 2013-02-28 Vehicle adaptation for people with disabilities in the spotlight at the International Motor Show in Geneva, (7-17 March 2013) Accessibility takes centre stage at the International Motor Show in Geneva when the Swedish vehicle adaptation company Autoadapt together with its Swiss dealer Haueter AG p ... Continue reading

Cooper Tire and Industrias Negromex (INSA) Earn Patent for Silica Masterbatch Process

Cooper Tire and Industrias Negromex (INSA) Earn Patent for Silica Masterbatch Process

Cooper Tire and the Industrias Negromex S.A. de C.V. (INSA) subsidiary of Grupo KUO, announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted a patent to the two organizations for a process to produce silane, hydrophobated silica, silica masterbatch and rubber products. The outcome of this process is a sil ... Continue reading

Schrader Continues to Invest in Domestic Manufacturing at Springfield, Tenn. Facility

Schrader Continues to Invest in Domestic Manufacturing at Springfield, Tenn. Facility

Schrader, the leading global manufacturer of sensing and valve solutions, recently showcased a new $10 million capacity investment towards the continued expansion of its Springfield, Tenn. facility. With this investment, Schrader has created 76 new manufacturing jobs this year and will add approximately 100 additional ... Continue reading

LoJack Corporation Reports Financial Results for the Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2012

LoJack Corporation Reports Financial Results for the Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2012

LoJack Corporation , the company that created the stolen vehicle recovery market, today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and 12 months ended December 31, 2012. "Our strategic focus on top-volume accounts generated strong unit volume for LoJack in the fourth quarter," said Randy L. Ortiz, the Company's ... Continue reading

Eaton Increases Dividend by 11 Percent

Eaton Increases Dividend by 11 Percent

The Board of Directors of diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton today declared an 11 percent increase in the quarterly cash dividend from $0.38 per common share to $0.42 per common share. The dividend is payable March 22, 2013 to shareholders of record at the close of business on March 11, 2013. Eaton estimates tha ... Continue reading

Elektrobit To Present HTML5 Trends And Capabilities Webinar

Elektrobit To Present HTML5 Trends And Capabilities Webinar

Elektrobit to discuss HTML5 Trends and Capabilities in the Human‚ Machine Interface (HMI) Space When: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 -- 10:00 am Where:‚ http://www.automotiveworld.com/webinars/html5-trends-and-capabilities-i n-the-human-machine-interface-hmi-space/ Who: Chairperson: Martin Kahl, editor, Automotive World Dr. ... Continue reading

KPIT Cummins Announces World's First Complete AUTOSAR R4.0.3 Compatible Solution

KPIT Cummins Announces World's First Complete AUTOSAR R4.0.3 Compatible Solution

KPIT Cummins (BSE: 532400) (NSE: KPIT), global product engineering partner to manufacturing corporations, has extended its AUTOSAR solution to introduce the world's first AUTOSAR stack compatible to R4.0.3 developed according to ISO26262 quality requirements. The solution includes basic software stack and new comprehen ... Continue reading

Research and Markets: 2013 North American International Auto Show Report

Research and Markets: 2013 North American International Auto Show Report

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "2013 North American International Auto Show Report" report to their offering. '2013 North American International Auto Show Report' As in many past years, the North American International Auto Show did not disappoint in 2013. The powers that be graciously schedul ... Continue reading

SANLUIS Rassini Two-Piece Rotor Chosen for 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray

SANLUIS Rassini Two-Piece Rotor Chosen for 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray

SANLUIS Rassini, a leading automotive supplier of suspension and brake components in North America, was selected by the Chevrolet Corvette engineering team for its unique two-piece rotor design, which offers significant weight savings and extreme performance at high speeds. Rassini's Automotive team has produced the in ... Continue reading

Lear Recognizes Thirteen Global Suppliers with "Supplier of the Year" Award

Lear Recognizes Thirteen Global Suppliers with "Supplier of the Year" Award

Lear Corporation , a leading global supplier of automotive seating and electrical distribution systems, today announced the presentation of the Lear "Supplier of the Year" Award, the highest honor Lear can bestow upon a supplier, to thirteen suppliers based on their outstanding performance during 2012. This year's Awar ... Continue reading

BorgWarner Receives Two 2012 Supplier Quality Excellence Awards From GM

BorgWarner Receives Two 2012 Supplier Quality Excellence Awards From GM

BorgWarner's facilities in Frankfort, Illinois, and Ketsch, Germany, received 2012 Supplier Quality Excellence Awards from General Motors (GM). Presented to about 7 percent of GM's suppliers, the new award recognizes supplier manufacturing locations for achieving consistently high levels of quality that exceed defined ... Continue reading

HELLA Continues To Expand In Mexico

HELLA Continues To Expand In Mexico

HELLA, one of the leading global suppliers in automotive lighting and electronic systems and components, has broken ground on its new Irapuato lighting facility in the Mexican state of Guanajuato. ... Continue reading

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