Dongfeng Investment Casting constructing new plant in Eastern China Dongfeng Investment Casting Co., Ltd. has held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new plant at the Economic and Technological Development Zone in Chaohu City, Anhui Province. The company’s new strategic production base in Eastern China will start operations after the first phase of the construction project is completed in the fourth quarter (October-December) of 2012. Sales...

新闻  2011/11/14 更新

Tachi-S to form new companies in China and Indonesia Tachi-S Co., Ltd. announced that it will establish the new companies in China and Indonesia in November 2011. The company will form a management company Tachi-S China Co., Ltd., which is 100% equity of Tachi-S in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China. It will be capitalized at 3 million USD (approximately 230 million yen). As of the end of September, 2011, the company has eight manufacturing com...

新闻  2011/10/28 更新

Hitachi Chemical develops new high heat conducting metallic substrate material Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. announced it had developed a high heat conducting metallic substrate "High set HT-5100M." Hitachi Chemical has started its sample shipment and is planning to start its volume production later in this fiscal year. Use of unique epoxy material has achieved heat conductivity as high as 5W/m･K. In comparison with conventional metallic substrate...

新闻  2011/09/27 更新

WABCO to supply air compressor for European truck manufacturer WABCO Holdings Inc. will supply its c-comp(TM) air compressor technology to a manufacturer of heavy duty truck headquartered in Europe, as part of the multi-year extension of a long-term agreement to supply air compression technology. WABCO's c-comp air compressor optimally disengages a truck or bus compressor from the engine when the vehicle's air system reaches full pressure. As a r...

新闻  2011/08/31 更新

Eaton to open new engine valve plant in China Eaton Corporation announced that it will open a new engine valve production facility in Jining, Shandong Province, China. The new facility will start production in September 2011 and will provide engine valves for automotive customers in the Chinese market. Eaton Corporation has announced a new five-year sales goal of 2 billion USD in revenue in China by the end of 2015, doubling its 2010 revenue of 1...

新闻  2011/08/11 更新

Shanghai Jiao Yun to expand capacity, increase capital at two subsidiaries Shanghai Jiao Yun Co., Ltd. decided at a board meeting on July 28 that its two wholly owned subsidiaries will make capital investment to increase their production capacity. 1. Shanghai Jiaoyun Auto Power Components Co., Ltd. will spend approximately 150 million yuan to construct an additional facility at its existing plant in Pudong, Shanghai. The project is intended t...

新闻  2011/07/30 更新

Autoneum opens new plant in China Autoneum Holding AG announced that it opened new plant in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China to supply heat shields and acoustic insulation components. The company is now present in the Chinese market with five production plants and a development center, and in India with two plants. In Bor, Czech Republic, Autoneum installed production capacities in the first half-year of 2011. Production will start this fall. ...

新闻  2011/07/29 更新

Faurecia to build new seating plant in China Faurecia S.A. announced that it will build a new automotive seating plant in the Yancheng Economic and Technology Development Zone (Jiangsu province, China) to manufacture seat mechanisms. Faurecia expects to invest 42 million USD (30 million euros) and plans to manufacture up to 4 million seat mechanism sets per year. The construction of the new Faurecia plant will start by the end of 2011 and will co...

新闻  2011/07/18 更新

Bosch and Daimler to form joint venture for electric motors Robert Bosch GmbH and Daimler AG announced that they have completed their negotiations and signed agreements on the establishment of a 50:50 joint venture, which will develop, produce, and market electric motors for electric vehicles. The company, which is to be set up under the name EM-motive GmbH, will have its headquarters and manufacturing facilities in Hildesheim, Germany. The joint...

新闻  2011/07/14 更新

Continental to open new passenger tire plant in Russia Continental AG announced that it is investing in growth by building a new passenger tyre plant in Kaluga, Russia. Start of construction is planned for the end of 2011. Some 220 million euros will be invested in the new plant, with production slated to start at the end of 2013. Employees at the plant which will have an output of about four million tyres a year in its first full-capacity phase,...

新闻  2011/07/01 更新

Continental to expand tyre production capacity Continental AG announced an extensive investment program because of the strong demand for passenger and light truck tyres. The plants in Mount Vernon / USA and Camacari /Brazil will be expanded with additional annual capacities of around four million each and the new plant in Hefei, Anhui province, China opened at the start of 2011, two months earlier than planned. Additional new tyre plants are cur...

新闻  2011/06/09 更新

Group Component Co., Ltd., Fiat, and Hangzhou Advance Gearbox Group Co., Ltd., will manufacture dual dry clutch transmissions (DDCT) systems for Fiat. The three parent companies agreed that the joint venture will invest 2,269 million yuan to introduce necessary technology from Fiat and increase production capacity. Production of the DDCT systems will start in 2013 with a target of manufacturing 500,000 units per year in the future. (From new...

新闻  2011/06/07 更新

Nippon Sheet Glass to build two new float lines in Vietnam Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd. (NSG) has announced plans to build two new float lines in Vietnam. The first of the two new float lines will be fitted with online coating equipment for the production of coated glass for use in thin-film type photovoltaic applications. The second is designed to help to meet the growing demand for very thin high tech float glass products. NSG Ultra Fine Flat g...

新闻  2011/05/23 更新

Hankook Tire to open new plant in China Hankook Tire Co., Ltd. held the groundbreaking ceremony for its third Chinese Plant in Yufu Industrial park of Chongqing Liangjiang New Area. Hankook Tire signed a 954 million USD investment agreement. With an area of approximately 530,000 square meters, the new plant will start operation by August 2012. The plant will be completed by the end of 2015 and will produce 4,500 truck bus radial tires and 30,000 ...

新闻  2011/05/19 更新

Ningbo Huaxiang and Grupo Antolin Irausa, S.A. of Spain to establish new joint venture Ningbo Huaxiang Electronic Co., Ltd. and Grupo Antolin Irausa, S.A. of Spain will establish a 50-50 joint-venture company in Yizheng, Jiangsu. The new company, Yangzhou Antolin Huaxiang Automobile Products Co., Ltd. (tentative name), will be capitalized at 6.4 million euros. Total investment is expected to reach 12.8 million euros. The joint venture wil...

新闻  2011/05/13 更新

Chuo Malleable Iron to set up a new ductile iron casting foundry in China Chuo Malleable Iron Co., Ltd. will set up a new ductile iron casting foundry at its Chinese subsidiary, Suzhou Chuo Malleable Iron Co., Ltd., with a total investment of 2 billion Japanese yen. The new facility, construction of which is scheduled to start in August 2011, is due to come on stream in the middle of 2012. The foundry will increase the company's capacity in Suzho...

新闻  2011/05/12 更新

Bosch to begin production of regenerative braking system for hybrid and electric vehicles in China by year’s end On April 20, 2011, Bosch Corporation announced that it will start manufacturing its regenerative braking system for hybrid and electric vehicles in China. The brake technology called the HAS hev converts the rotating energy of wheels into electric energy to the maximum extent and stores it into the battery, which helps extend the...

新闻  2011/04/20 更新

Bosch strengthening safety system business in China Bosch Group (China) is expanding its production facility and testing center to upgrade its safety system business. Bosch Automotive Products (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. is now constructing a second plant, which is scheduled to go into production soon. In the area of testing, construction of a second test road at Bosch’s winter test center will start this year. In addition, the first phase of the ...

新闻  2011/04/20 更新

Johnson Controls wins Quality and Shipping Award from Honda Johnson Controls Power Solutions has received the 2010 Award for Quality and Shipping Performance from Honda de Mexico. The award was given in recognition of the quality and shipping performance provided by the company's automotive battery plant in Torreon, Mexico. This is the fifth consecutive year the Torreon plant received this award and the tenth Honda award received since the plant ...

新闻  2011/03/31 更新

Leoni to supply wiring system for electric microbus mia Leoni AG will start producing high voltage (HV) wiring systems to the mia electric's microbus mia in the second quarter of 2011. The Germany based car manufacturer is building the vehicle at its production sites in Cerizay, France. mia electric aims at having 5,000 mias on German and French roads from the start of production in June until the end of the year 2011. The company is currently eq...

新闻  2011/03/17 更新