ZF Services UK appoints new product support engineer
ZF Services UK has appointed a new product support engineer responsible for driving forward its technical support and mentoring. Simon Ackroyd has been appointed to the role, and will oversee training for its customer base and partners in the UK. Simon has worked with the ZF family since 2002, First with Hindle group as a workshop engineer before later progressing into a technical manager role with powertrain products Ltd. Altogether, he has more than 15 years’ automotive industry experience working with ZF.
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Brake Engineering adds eight new calipers
Eight new brake calipers have been added to Brake Engineering’s product range this month, underlining the brand’s commitment to bringing to market products that are in demand at both garages and motor factors. The new introductions include coverage for BMW X5 and X6 (2007), as well as Audi A3, Volkswagen Golf and Golf SV, Seat Leon, and Skoda Octavia (2012).
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Autosupplies inaugural golf day a success
Autosupplies Chesterfield has held its first ever supplier and customer golf day at South Chesterfield Golf Club. More than 30 players took part in the four ball stableford tournament with an array of trophies for nearest the pin and longest drive given out to participants, along with winning team and raffle prizes.
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Chelsea FC unveils new third kit
Chelsea FC and Nike have unveiled the club’s brand new third kit for the 2017/18 season, which features Yokohamas logo.
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Goodyear puts US$77 million into new automated Luxembourg factory
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company has announced plans to build a new highly automated facility in Luxembourg. The company is investing $77 million in the facility, which will produce approximately 500,000 tyres annually and create approximately 70 new, full-time positions.
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FTire user meeting | 11/09/2017 – 12/09/2017
The 4th FTire User Meeting is set to take place 11-12 September at fka in Aachen, Germany. According to the organisers, it is “the ideal platform for all users and developers to get together and discuss their experiences related to all kinds of FTire applications in the CAE process chain, the implementation in HiL test rigs as well as latest findings from automotive research projects or FTire interfacing with third party simulation environments.
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Sukhpal staying at ECP for further three years
The Original founder of Euro Car Parts, Sukhpal Singh Ahluwalia, has extended his contract with the business, as executive chairman of LKQs operations in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. Ahluwalia is also a member of LKQ Corporation’s board of directors.
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ZC Rubber names Ákos Barcsik as field engineer manager
ZC Rubber has named Ákos Barcsik as its new field engineer manager, who will work from Zhongce Europe GmbH (ZC Europe) and provide targeted service for the European market. Prior to joining ZC Rubber, Ákos Barcsik served as national field engineer manager for 9 years at Bridgestone East Europe. “Europe is an important market to ZC Rubber in its global business map. We are pleased to work with Ákos Barcsik and achieve the company’s goals in European market together”, company representatives said in a statement.
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