In an investor update, Endurance Group informed that its ABS brakes tie-up with BWI, USA is progressing well.
It is in the process of testing its ABS with its first OEM client and hopeful to get clearance in this financial year.
The plant capacity is planned at 400,000 ABS assemblies per annum. This plant setup will be ready by the end of Q3 of 2019-20 (December 2019).
Endurance is also engaging with other OEMs for this product. It is testing the product in very difficult special tracks for rural and other normal tracks of India.

Endurance Group investor conference call Q4, FY 2018-19

INEOS Styrolution, a global supplier of styrenics, announced that Minda Industries Limited has selected its specialty ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) Novodur HH-112 for the rear lamp housing application of a leading 4-wheeler model in India. For Minda, the molding and metallising performance of Novodur HH-112 were the key criteria to select this material for its rear lamp housing application. Novodur HH-112 offers excellent mechanical properties with overall balanced thermal and rheological properties.　This material provides high heat resistance, high dimensional stability and excellent stiffness. In addition, it also offers great performance in metallisation and welding processes.　(From a press release on June 5, 2019)

American Battery Solutions (ABS), a newly formed company, announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire manufacturing and testing assets for high-voltage battery systems from Robert Bosch Battery Systems, a subsidiary of Bosch. Under the proposed agreement with Robert Bosch Battery Systems, ABS will acquire the testing lab assets for high-voltage battery systems and lease a 40,000-square-foot space for prototype battery pack assembly and offices located in Lake Orion, Michigan. In addition, ABS will acquire the 172,000-square-foot facility located in Springboro, Ohio, where Robert Bosch Battery Systems has assembled lithium-ion battery packs for use in the automotive industry since 2009. ABS will supply modular battery solutions to transportation, industrial and commercial markets, primarily in North America and Europe, with target markets being high performance and autonomous EVs; delivery trucks, buses and utility vehicles; and other applications. (From a press release on May 20, 2019)1/2