Syensqo expands Ryton PPS compounding capabilities in US On May 13, Syensqo announced a capital investment to expand Ryton PPS (polyphenylene sulfide) compounding capability at the Augusta manufacturing site in Georgia, US. The facility, already known for its large-scale Amodel PPA and KetaSpire PEEK compounding and its local aromatic resin production, including PPA and PEEK, is now equipped to supply Ryton PPS compounds. The site’s IATF 16949 ...

News  Updated at: 2025/05/19

SEALSQ, Switzerland partners with IC'ALPS, France to enhance ASICs for automotive functional safety On March 28, SEALSQ Corp, a semiconductor company, partnered with IC'ALPS, a leading ASIC design house specializing in custom circuits that meet IATF16949 standards and ISO 26262 functional safety requirements. This partnership will integrate SEALSQ's post-quantum secure technology into IC'ALPS' automotive ASIC designs, providing cryptographic resi...

News  Updated at: 2025/03/31

Symbio, France secures IATF 16949 certification for fuel cell technology On January 28, Symbio, Europe's leading fuel cell company, announced that Bureau Veritas had awarded it a Letter of Conformity to IATF 16949 certification for its Design and Manufacturing perimeters. The certification highlights the technological maturity of Symbio and SymphonHy, Europe’s largest hydrogen fuel cell development and production site. Symbio is the first in E...

News  Updated at: 2025/01/29

Freudenberg unveils prismatic battery cell solutions that boot battery cycle life Freudenberg Sealing Technologies, a business group of Freudenberg, revealed new prismatic battery cell solutions designed to enhance reliability, extend cycle life, and increase design flexibility. These solutions include cell caps and nonwoven cell stack envelopes. The locally manufactured cell caps, developed in collaboration with cell manufacturers, feature integ...

News  Updated at: 2024/09/05

Protean Electric, UK starts production of Gen 5 in-wheel motor On July 16, Protean Electric announced the production launch of its ProteanDrive Generation 5 (‘Gen 5’) IWM (in-wheel motor). The ‘Gen 5’ ProteanDrive Pd18 IWM provides a fully integrated inverter, all housed inside an 18-inch wheel package, suitable for all automotive and mobility applications. Protean’s Gen 5 Pd18 can be configured to a range of wheel sizes, torque, and po...

News  Updated at: 2024/07/16

Innoviz, Israel achieves IATF 16949:2016 certification On February 7, Innoviz Technologies Ltd. announced its achievement of the IATF 16949:2016 certification, which includes the ISO 9001:2015 requirements. The company received certification for its design and assembly of Lidar, Perception SW, and Lidar solutions, further solidifying its position as a trusted Tier-1 supplier. In addition, Innoviz received the ISO 14001:2015 certification, an inte...

News  Updated at: 2024/02/07

Amkor Technology, USA and GlobalFoundries collaborate to localize automotive semiconductor manufacturing in Europe On January 16, Amkor Technology, Inc., a semiconductor packaging, and test services provider, and GlobalFoundries (GF), a leading semiconductor manufacturer, announced their strategic partnership with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Amkor’s Porto, Portugal facility. The partnership aims to help the European Union to localize automotiv...

News  Updated at: 2024/01/16

t. The new team in Toulouse specializes in LED drivers, power management, and sensor interfacing and will be able to serve automotive customers. The team will also increase its mastering of automotive functional expertise, a dedicated development cycle, and relevant safety frameworks (ASIL A to D, IATF16949-ready). Based on IC’Alps press release...

News  Updated at: 2023/09/12

Helix, UK receives IATF 16949:2016 certification for motor and inverter production programs On September 4, Helix announced the award of IATF 16949:2016 certification for motor and inverter automotive production programs at its Milton Keynes Technical Centre and flexible manufacturing facility. IATF 16949:2016 certification is awarded for three years, after which certificate holders are subject to a BSI recertification audit.  The two-year roa...

News  Updated at: 2023/09/05

4 Trelleborg Sealing Solutions sites in US get IATF16949 certification Trelleborg AB (Trelleborg) announced that 4 Trelleborg Sealing Solutions sites in the US received International Automotive Task Force (IATF) 16949 certification to perform subassembly work for auto makers and Tier 1 suppliers. The 4 sites include 3 ServicePLUS Centers located in Menomonee Falls (Wisconsin), Vancouver (Washington), Ontario (California), and a Logistics Center i...

News  Updated at: 2023/01/31

SMK’s Chinese plant acquires IATF16949 international quality standard with wider scope of application SMK Corporation (SMK) announced that “SMK Electronics (Dongguan) Co., Ltd.”, its plant in Guangdong Province, China, has received certification of the “IATF16949” international quality management system standard for a wider scope of application. The company will strengthen the range of certified automotive products, as well as support t...

News  Updated at: 2023/01/19

RoboSense passes ASPICE CL2 certification RoboSense announced that it has officially passed the ASPICE CL2 certification, of which the evaluation scope covers automotive embedded software projects primarily for use with LiDARs. Previously, the company had obtained quality or safety management system certificates such as IATF16949, ISO9001, TS22163, ISO45001, and ISO14001. (From a RoboSense official WeChat account press release dated November 22, ...

News  Updated at: 2022/11/22

Enplus acquires IATF16949 certificate Several South Korean media sources reported that Enplus Co., Ltd. (Enplus) acquired an IATF16949 certificate for its design and production of heat dissipation materials for electronic parts and secondary battery materials (conductive materials and electrodes). IATF16949 is a global quality management system standard for the automotive Industry. Enplus became a qualified vendor of automakers in the field of se...

News  Updated at: 2022/09/07

Huawei achieves IATF 16949 quality management system certification Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei) announced that its Intelligent Automotive Solution (IAS) Business Unit (BU) achieved the IATF16949 quality management system certification. Huawei's products and services in the automotive field include seven solutions: intelligent driving, intelligent cockpits, intelligent vehicle control, intelligent electrification, intelligent vehicle-clo...

News  Updated at: 2022/07/14

Lohmann, Germany to present adhesive tapes for e-mobility at Battery Show Europe On June 21, Lohmann GmbH und Co. KG announced that it will present adhesive solutions for optimal thermal management and reliable electrical management in the battery at Battery Show Europe, which will take place from June 28 to 30 in Stuttgart, Germany. The thermally conductive Lohmann adhesive tapes of the DuploCOLL TC range allow efficient connections to be mad...

News  Updated at: 2022/06/27

Suncall acquires IATF16949 at shunt busbar plant and to invest JPY 250 million for production expansion Suncall Corporation (Suncall) announced that its Kyoto-Minami Plant, a plant dedicated to shunt busbar production, has acquired IATF16949 certification in February 2022. The plant was established in April 2020, for the production and development site of shunt busbars. The company’s shunt busbar is a product for hybrid vehicles (HV) and elect...

News  Updated at: 2022/05/17

NXP presents premium Radar software development Kit NXP Semiconductors N.V. delivered a first release of powerful radar signal processing algorithms as part of the new Premium Radar SDK (software development Kit) (PRSDK). It enables developers to enhance radar system performance, leveraging tight coupling of NXP’s advanced software algorithms with its latest S32R4x radar processor family for improved safety and differentiation. The PRSDK implem...

News  Updated at: 2022/04/06

SHPT achieves IATF16949 and ISO14001 certifications Shanghai Hydrogen Propulsion Technology Co., Ltd. (SHPT) announced that the company has achieved IATF16949 and ISO14001 certification. In 2022, SHPT will comprehensively promote clean production by strengthening daily management, saving resources, reducing consumption, and technological innovation. (From a press release dated March 11, 2022)...

News  Updated at: 2022/03/11

Innoviz, Israel achieves IATF 16949:2016 for R&D and manufacturing On February 8,  Innoviz Technologies announced that it has achieved compliance with automotive standard IATF 16949:2016. The compliance statement recognizes Innoviz for developing its own automated manufacturing processes and complying with this standard itself in addition to its supply chain. The International Automotive Task Force (IATF) is charged with providing improved qual...

News  Updated at: 2022/02/15

Quectuel launches two onboard smart modules Quectel Wireless Solutions Co., Ltd. (Quectel) announced the launch of two onboard Android smart modules, AG800D and AG600K. AG800D is an onboard 5G Android smart module that complies with automotive industry quality management process requirements such as IATF 16949, APQP, and PPAP. This module supports 5G network, based on 3GPP R15 protocol, supports 5G NSA and SA networking modes, and is backward-com...

News  Updated at: 2022/01/13