Liaoning SG Automotive Group to acquire assets of Liaoning Huanghai Commercial Vehicle The board members of Liaoning SG Automotive Group Co., Ltd. voted on a project to acquire the assets of Liaoning Huanghai Commercial Vehicle through Dalian Shuguang Auto Parts Manufacturing Co., Ltd., its wholly owned subsidiary. Dalian Shuguang Auto Parts Manufacturing will purchase the production rights, technologies, certificates, real estates and relat...

新闻  2011/11/11 更新

EXEDY Shanghai receives Jatco Supplier Award EXEDY Corporation announced that EXEDY Shanghai received the 2010 Jatco Supplier Award from Jatco (Guangzhou) Automatic Transmission Ltd. This time the EXEDY Shanghai team was awarded based on having a cost better than other competitors by taking advantage of locally procured supplies for manufacturing. (From a press release on June 27, 2011)...

新闻  2011/06/27 更新

t its location in Taubate near Sao Paulo, Brazil. The expansion will allow Autoliv, to double its steering wheel molding and assembly capacity in the region to more than one million units as well as expand die-casting capabilities for steering wheel armatures. This capital investment is expected to cost around 9 million USD. Autoliv began steering wheel operations at the existing Taubate plant 12 years ago. The plant currently has 77 employees, a...

新闻  2011/06/13 更新

Autoliv to open new airbag cushion plant in Thailand Autoliv Inc. announced that it has begun the construction of an airbag cushion manufacturing plant in Chonburi, near Bangkok, Thailand. Autoliv's existing airbag cushion plant in Thailand opened just two years ago. The new facility will have capacity to produce 4.6 million cushions corresponding to 15% of Autoliv's global manufacturing capacity for "cut & sewn" textile cushions for airbag syste...

新闻  2011/05/31 更新

Visteon expands test center in Brazil Visteon Corporation is expanding automotive component testing capabilities at its engineering test center in Brazil. The Visteon Tech Center, located at the company's Arbor manufacturing facility in Sao Paulo, will now start performing thermal cycle tests on internal and external components for vehicles. With the expansion, vehicle manufacturers will be able to perform thermal tests locally, reducing the cost...

新闻  2011/05/26 更新

Visteon earns World Excellence Award from Ford Visteon Corporation earned World Excellence Award from Ford Motor Company. Visteon's manufacturing facility in Hluk, Czech Republic, received a Silver Award for demonstrating superior quality, delivery and cost performance in supplying radiator assemblies to Ford. Visteon, with 2010 product sales of 7.32 billion USD, supplied more than 1.8 billion USD in components and systems to Ford in 2010, includ...

新闻  2011/03/18 更新

Autoliv Inc. has started up a building extension of its Shanghai manufacturing plant for safety electronics systems and components. The 4,000 square meters area extension will allow Autoliv to increase its manufacturing capacity for electronics by 50% in China and by 15% globally. As a result of the expansion, Autoliv will have an annual production capacity in China of more than 5 million electronic control units (ECUs) for airbag system and of 1...

新闻  2010/12/09 更新

Autoliv Inc. began the construction of an airbag inflator plant at its Taubate location near Sao Paulo, Brazil. The new facility will manufacture airbag inflators mainly for driver and passenger side protection, and expects to increase its production for side-impact and rollover applications. The cost for the building amounts to approximately 8 million U.S. dollars. The new plant will increase Autoliv's global inflator manufacturing capacity by r...

新闻  2010/11/08 更新

Plug-in hybrid likely priced under 3 million yen   It was found that Toyota is considering pricing of its Prius-based plug-in hybrid "Prius PHV" slated to be launched at the end of 2011 at below 3 million yen. Toyota appears to have determined it possible to reduce manufacturing costs of lithium-ion batteries, leveraging expertise in cost reductions it has acquired through development of hybrid vehicles. With the aim of winning the de facto stan...

新闻  2010/07/21 更新

Toyota planning to launch FCV in 2015   Toyota has drafted a prospect of manufacturing a fuel-cell vehicle at a cost of about 5 million yen, which it is hoping to put on the market in 2015. Its manufacturing cost had been calculated as over 100 million yen per vehicle in the early 2000s. The drastic reduction in manufacturing cost was realized by reduction in use of precious metals, including platinum, in fuel cells that generate electricity by ...

新闻  2010/06/17 更新

Nissan battery plant for EVs started in U.S.   Nissan held a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the start of construction of a US plant to manufacture lithium-ion batteries for installation on electrified vehicles. Constructed at a cost of 1.7 billion dollars (approximately 150 billion yen), the plant will go into operation in 2012. The new manufacturing facility will be built on the premises of the Smyrna Plant in Tennessee, one of Nissan's manufa...

新闻  2010/05/28 更新