ember 7 F-Tech Inc. announced that it had received new orders for suspension parts from Toyota in the U.S., Japan and Asia. For the order received in the U.S., F-Tech will be responsible for design, development and production. The company forecasts that its sales to Toyota for fiscal year 2019 will exceed JPY 6.8 billion. This time, the company has won major orders to supply suspension parts for about 300,000-400,000 units with sales of approxima...

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. and Honda Motor Co., Ltd. For FY2015, Tachi-S expects a two-digit increase in revenue, and a substantial rise in operating profits. Unit sales in FY 2016 are expected to grow by a further 500,000 units from FY 2015. Unit sales in China are expected to account for more than half of the growth, and exceed 1 million units, a major increase from the FY 2015 outlook of 900,000 units. In China, orders from local automakers such as Geely Automobile an...

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subsidiary launches its own valve seat production in 2015, SNPR will have an excess capacity of approximately 1 million units per month. NPR intends to effectively utilize this capacity to support its other global facilities. When demand in markets such as India and North America grows rapidly and exceeds local plants' capacity, NPR will supply products from SNPR in the same way it supplies its products globally from Japan. (From an article in t...

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[Green Vehicles]   Toyota announced that its global cumulative sales of its hybrid vehicles topped 2 million units, reaching 2,016,900 at the end of August 2009. It took about ten years since the introduction of a mass production hybrid model for cumulative sales of Toyota's whole hybrid lineup to exceed the one-million mark at the end of May 2007. Only in two years after that, they reached the milestone of two million. Toyota sold 429,700 hybri...

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ioners. Among several purchasing projects now in progress, at least one is expected to be materialized as early as the end of this month. U-SHIN intends to secure funding for acquisitions by asking outside partners like Japanese trading companies for capital participation in the company, which will exceed 20 percent. Kohji Tanabe, president of U-SHIN, says “Only three or four suppliers will be able to survive in the global market of automobile ...

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se local production of auto body seals mainly. The company will establish a satellite plant in Dalian, Liaoning Province, in order to deal with an increase in order from its major customer, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. The Dalian plant is scheduled to start operations in 2015. New car sales in China have exceeded 20 million units in 2013 and are expected to grow further. (From an article in the Nikkan Jidosha Shimbun on April 24, 2014) Kinugawa Rubber ...

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-strength press products. Heating, pressing and cooling processes have been optimized to raise strokes per minute (SPM) three to four times as many as the conventional hot press machines. This hot press technology is used to make high-strength parts with tensile strength of 1,350 MPa or more, which exceeds the strength of high tensile steel sheets. While it currently produces parts such as center pillars, and floor and roof reinforcing components...

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nt venture between Sumitomo Corporation and Lioho Machine Works Ltd. in Taiwan, Kiriu will launch production of brake disks and brake drums for supply to Chinese automakers. Kiriu established already in 2004 a joint venture with Lioho Machine Works, Kiriu-Lioho Co., Ltd., but demand is projected to exceed its production capacity within the next several years. The new investment is meant to secure additional production capacity. (From an article i...

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ong for installation on a single model, the business was estimated to be worth 1 billion yen a year. After the delivery began, Ssangyong has asked for additional supply for its other vehicle model, placing a high value on the excellent product qualities. Volume of transaction is thereby expected to exceed the projection. (From an article in the Nikkan Jidosha Shimbun on June 30, 2011) Asahi Tec Corporation announced that its subsidiaries in Thail...

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ehicle power control units (PCUs) and E-Axles. Due to electrification, the company expects that demand for automotive electric parts and screws used in automotive parts will remain strong. It expects that its automotive screw sales will account for 15% of its total sales in 2025, and the ratio will exceed 20% in 2030. (From an article in the Nikkan Jidosha Shimbun on October 17, 2023) Precise Products Holdings, Inc. (PPHD) announced that it will ...

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res DSP - Weuffen Mando-Brose producing steering motors in Korea Mando mass-producing struts and shock absorbers for Nissan Mando receives 2013 GM Supplier Quality Excellence Award Mando develops automatic emergency braking system and lane keeping assist system Mando-Hella Electronics' export sales exceed USD 20 million in 2013 Mando expects sales to reach KRW 272.4 billion in 2013 KYB-Mando do Brasil begins mass production Mando to establish hol...

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ages and reduces data consumption. The Aisin electronic horizon reconstructor is based on the ADASISv2 protocol from the ADASIS AISBL and includes some of Aisin’s proprietary enhancements specifically developed to improve ISA performance. The TomTom ADAS Map also contains speed limits, which have exceeded 90% performance in some internal benchmarks. To achieve 95% quality, TomTom uses different professional sources and Sensor Derived Observatio...

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oduce 2.1 million tires per year. The company plans to spend 165 million US dollars in this project, aiming to complete construction of the plant in the late 2009. It is expected that, in 2008, the annual production capacity of the Group's operations overseas will reach 33 million tires, which will exceed the annual capacity (31 million tires) of its domestic operations in Korea. The company's worldwide production capacity is forecast to reach 77...

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roduce new road simulator to U.S. development center and promote suspension system development F-Tech supplies pedals for Renault-Nissan Alliance's Common Module Family models F-Tech develops and introduces advanced forging press technology to improve productivity and accuracy F-Tech sales to GM to exceed JPY 20 billion in FY 2016 F-Tech to introduce original energy management system globally F-Tech to produce sub-frames for European Civic from M...

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he Essen-based brake system specialist serving the independent aftermarket and operating in a joint venture with automotive suppliers TMD Friction and HELLA, provides disc brake pads for all Tesla Model S and Tesla X P100D AWD. From 2021, the proportion of copper in brake pads may legally no longer exceed 5%. By 2025, brake pads sold in the USA must be entirely copper-free. The front and rear axle brake pads of the Tesla models meet these criteri...

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elease on December 22, 2014) Hankook Tire announced its consolidated business results for 2014. Sales were KRW 6,679.5 billion, down 5.5 percent from the previous year's result (KRW 7,069.2 billion). Operating profit reached KRW 1,031.1 billion, a slight increase from KRW 1,031.0 billion in FY2013, exceeding the KRW 1 trillion mark for two straight years. Although sales decreased due to the weaker won and other factors, the impact on profit was o...

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on at the Canton Assembly Plant. The partnership marks SK On’s first supply agreement with a Japanese OEM. SK On currently operates two battery plants in the U.S. and is building four additional plants with partners. Once fully operational, SK On’s annual U.S. production capacity is expected to exceed 180 GWh. (Nissan release on March 19, 2025) Hyundai Motor-SK Battery America Inc. (SKBA), a US subsidiary of SK On Co., Ltd., to start producin...

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na, except for the hypoid gear set, which will be produced in the company's Nagoya facility in Japan. PTUs provide full-time or on-demand torque distribution for front-wheel- drive-based all-wheel-drive vehicles. GKN is a world-leading independent supplier of PTUs with annual production targeted to exceed 500,000 units for the first time in 2007(From a press release on August 7, 2007) QAD (Carpinteria, California, U.S.A.) which supplies Enterpris...

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of battery cells. Samsung SDI will be a major supplier of lithium-ion cells for Lucid’s first vehicle, an executive sedan scheduled to begin production in late 2018.Samsung SDI and Lucid have collaborated to develop next-generation cylindrical cells that are able to be fast-charged repeatedly and exceed current performance benchmarks in areas such as energy density, power, calendar life and safety. “As the leading manufacturer of lithium-ion ...

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rket, looking to use the plant also as its export hub in the future. Of all sales generated at Akebono Brake’s U.S. operations, nearly 10 percent comes from sales to Mexico. Combined with brakes using knockdown parts made in Japan and elsewhere, Akebono’s share in the Mexican market has already exceeded 30 percent. The establishment of the new plant will allow the company to meet increasing orders from car manufacturers, by which it intends t...

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