Saab Stops Production on Debt Issues
7 Apr 2011, 14:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / What started like a minor problem a few days ago tends to grow in proportion, as Swedish manufacturer Saab was forced, for the second time in two weeks, to stop production at the Trollhatten plant b...
Ford Awards Its Suppliers
17 Mar 2011, 19:23 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American manufacturer Ford posted remarkable financial figures for last year, proving, once again, that the One Ford strategy set a while back was the right choice. But, as it is usually the case wi...
Honda Awards NA Suppliers
30 Apr 2010, 08:22 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As is the custom in the automotive world, Japanese manufacturer Honda awarded yesterday its best suppliers, with a total of 53 OEM suppliers and 64 Service Parts suppliers receiving Honda's rec...
Jeep Wrangler Packs Chinese Parts
23 Jan 2010, 07:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / {img align=left}The first North American OEM customer for Chinese supplier China Automotive Systems (CAAS) is non other than American carmaker Chrysler, the Chinese announced today, one year after i...
US F1 Signs Supplier Partnership with ACG
18 Dec 2009, 09:21 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / From all the newly entrants in the 2010 Formula One Championship, US F1 team is the only one not to announce at least a single driver for their inaugural campaign in the series. However, that doesn&...
ZF Expects to Break Even in 2010
16 Dec 2009, 13:21 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / The recession not only affected automakers, but their suppliers too. As things are looking better, German supplier ZF Friedrichshafen AG said it hopes to break even in 2010. "Growth at ZF ne...
Sumitomo Gets Supplier of the Year Award in Australia
8 Dec 2009, 11:29 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / Sumitomo Australia Group was awarded “Supplier of the Year 2009” by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries. Sumitomo provides electronic and electrical automotive components to aut...
Ford Oakville, Idled Due to Parts Shortage
25 Oct 2009, 20:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American manufacturer’s Ford Oakville, Ontario, assembly plant will be idled next week due to shortage of parts caused by labor violence at Ford’s Indian supplier. The supplier in quest...
Mayor Bing May Give Up on the Bing Group
13 Oct 2009, 07:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Detroit's Mayor Dave Bing is facing the same difficult economic environment as the car manufacturers in his city are facing. Owner of the Bing Group, a company specializing in steel stamping an...
Suppliers Ask More Money from the US
12 Oct 2009, 12:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With the financial crisis easing, yet still far away from being over, American parts suppliers have begun asking the US government for additional aid. And even if some may argue more financial backi...
Renault Announces 2008 Supplier Quality Awards
29 Sep 2009, 10:14 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / French manufacturer Renault announced its Supplier Quality Awards to eight suppliers of parts and services. Jean-Pierre Vallaude, Senior Vice-President, Quality, and Christian Vandenhende, Senior Vi...
Methode Sues Delphi
4 Sep 2009, 14:09 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After earlier today good news for American supplier came, following the approval by US anti-trust officials of GM's buy offer, trouble ahead, once again, for Delphi. Methode Electronics, suppli...
Cooper-Standard Automotive Files for Bankruptcy
4 Aug 2009, 10:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American automotive supplier Cooper-Standard Automotive announced today that together with its US subsidiaries filed "voluntary petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankrup...
Lear Reaches UAW Agreement
17 Jul 2009, 09:44 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Bankrupt automotive supplier Lear announced today it has reached a tentative deal with the UAW on a contract for some 700 hourly workers at seating plants in Arlington and Wentzville. The company di...
Proliance Files for Bankruptcy
3 Jul 2009, 11:40 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The number of US based automotive suppliers to file for bankruptcy this year increased today with aftermarket heat exchange and temperature control products supplier Proliance, who proceeded to the ...
Lear to File for Bankruptcy
29 Jun 2009, 08:09 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Even if the economic crisis seems to soften, it keeps on making victims in the automotive sector. The latest one to feel the kiss of bankruptcy is car seat manufacturer Lear which, according to medi...
Ford Appoints 16 New Suppliers
25 Jun 2009, 06:43 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / While some other companies struggle to reduce the overall count of suppliers in a broader attempt to save their business, Ford today announced that it has appointed 16 new companies to the Aligned B...
Ford World Excellence Awards
24 Jun 2009, 06:31 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Similar to other automakers across the globe, including Volkswagen and Audi, Ford today announced the winners of the company's World Excellence Awards for 2008, the highest recognition for supp...
Volkswagen Best Supplier Awards
21 Jun 2009, 08:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Whereas some manufacturers in the US have gone to battle with their parts suppliers, German manufacturer Volkswagen found both the time and the money to award their best suppliers during the “...
VW America Opens High-Tech Parts Distribution Center
19 Jun 2009, 09:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Volkswagen America announced yesterday the opening of what they like to call their most advanced parts distribution center in Jacksonville, Florida. The center spreads on 260,000 square feet and cos...