GM awards 12 Top suppliers
"Strong management, strong management and strong management, unique condition to succeed" GM purchasing chief Bo Andersson said last week after
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Hector Fratty
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Hector Fratty, DrivingVisionNews President and Founder has been for his entire career in automotive lighting. From 1995 to 2006, he was Valeo Lighting Systems’ chief of R&D, managing a staff of 650 engineers and technicians and a budget of over €70m. He holds 20 patents worldwide. In 2008, after 2 years’ consultancy, he initiated the launch of Driving Vision News, a news pipeline dedicated to keeping the lighting and driver assistance community informed of the latest progress and development in the industry. Hector Fratty presides over the highly‐regarded biennial VISION Congress international automotive lighting and driver assistance symposium. Hector Fratty is also a member of the ISAL steering committees.
The big 3, Nichia, Lumiled, Osram share the automotive LED market
This year, Audi R8 will feature a full LED headlamp, supplied by Automotive Lighting, with LEDs supplied by Lumileds and Osram. This will be the second
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MOROCCO: Renault signs a deal in Morocco
Renault has signed agreements with the Moroccan government for a new vehicle manufacturing plant near Tangiers.
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PASSENGER CARS: 2007 flat in Western Europe
ACEA communicates that nearly 16 million new cars were registered in Europe (EU27+EFTA) in 2007, or 1.1% more than the year before.
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Visteon estimates a loss of 10.7 million $ in 2007
Visteon on Thursday raised its estimated of 2007 product sales, to $10.7 billion from $10.6 billion, and said it is still finalizing full-year results.
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Chinese carmaker Changfeng targets US and also Europe
Li Jianxian, chairman, confirmed that Changfeng was now looking at launching in Europe as well as North America, perhaps as early as late 2009.
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“Intelligent Automotive Lighting” congress January 28-31
Till 2015 innovative lighting functions will provide a wide range of benefits for the automotive, aircraft, aerospace, marine and rail industry.
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Streiff: “Vigo is one of our top plants and one of the best”
PSA today said production capacity at its Vigo site in Spain meant 300,000 Partner and Berlingo professional cars could be manufactured each year.
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Valeo negotiating sale of wiring harness activity to Leoni
French car parts maker Valeo said today it was in talks to sell an electrical wiring unit with sales of 545 million euros ($743.3 million) to German automotive supplier
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