All Africa and Middle East articles – Page 15
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Brose expands in Africa’s East London
South Africa – Together with long-term partner Gulmini Family Trust, the provider of systems for vehicle doors, liftgates, seat structures and electric drives has opened a new production facility in the Industrial Development Zone (IDZ).The joint venture RG Brose will deliver just-in-sequence C-Class door systems plus lightweight seat structures for ...
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ArticleMercedes-Benz starts C-Class production in Bremen
Germany – The model will now be made at four sites on four continents: East London (South Africa), Beijing (China) and Tuscaloosa (US) in addition to Bremen. Production will be ramped up at all locations over the next six months. Bremen has overall control of global C-Class production, including tooling ...
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ArticleA taste for two wheels
The world’s largest motorcycle market still has room for expansion The numbers involved in the world’s largest two-wheeler market are truly astonishing. Last financial year, 15m motorcycles, scooters and mopeds were sold in India, up from 8m in 2008/9. Back in 1971, the figure was just 100,000.The incredible size and ...
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ArticleTough time for trucks
AMS reviews the commercial vehicle market in India as it experiences short-term troublesCommercial vehicles (CVs) have recently gone through a difficult period in the Indian market. Although the country’s economic growth has seen production of all CVs almost double from just over half a million in the financial year ending ...
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ArticleIndian promise
AMS reviews one of the world’s fastest-developing automotive markets in the context of a recent downturn, rising exports and a liberalised marketWith a population of 1.2 billion and vehicle ownership of just 13 per 1000, India would appear to be an automotive manufacturer’s dream. Growth has already been astonishing over ...
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ArticleTough time for trucks
Nick Gibbs reviews the commercial vehicle market in India as it experiences short-term troublesCommercial vehicles (CVs) have recently gone through a difficult period in the Indian market. Although the country’s economic growth has seen production of all CVs almost double from just over half a million in the financial year ...
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ArticleInterview with Sarangarajan Thathapillai, VP, Hyundai Motor India
AMS visited Hyundai Motor India near Chennai to hear about its recent expansionSimon Duval Smith (SDS): Can you tell us what the big challenges are at the moment – I know there is a slight flatness in demand, how is this affecting automation and labour here?Sarangarajan Thathapillai (ST): The main ...
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ArticleHyundai Motor India
AMS visited the company’s impressively modern facilities in Chennai, where petrol and diesel engines can be manufactured on the same lineHyundai Motor India Limited (HMIL) is the second largest automotive manufacturer in India, established in 1996 by the Hyundai Motor Company (HMC) of South Korea when the Hyundai brand was ...
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ArticleNissan makes changes at the top
Japan – The appointments follow on from developments outlined at the beginning of November, when the vehicle-maker announced the formation of six global regions and the personnel to lead them. Takashi Hata, currently president of JATCO, the partly Nissan-owned supplier of automotive transmissions, will become senior vice-president and chairman of ...
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ArticleBinks substituirá Leary na FedEx Express
FedEx Express anunciou que David Binks substituirá Gerald Leary como presidente regional da Europa, Oriente Médio, Subcontinente Indiano e África (EMEA), a partir do início de Janeiro do próximo ano. Leary está se aposentando da divisão Fed Ex após quase 40 anos.Binks, que esteve com Fed Ex desde 1983 e ...
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ArticleNovas greves atingem a indústria de automóveis da África do Sul
Trabalhadores dos transportes filiados à Transportes Sul Africano e Trabalhadores Aliados da União (SATAWU) entraram em greve nesta quinta-feira (14 de novembro), em Joanesburgo, um movimento que poderia afetar as operações de distribuição local de OEMs como a BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan e Volkswagen.Cerca de 3.000 trabalhadores tomaram medidas na última ...
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ArticleFabre takes Infiniti EMEA role
Switzerland – Hugues Fabre is to become general manager Western Europe for Infiniti EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). He will be based in Rolle and will report to Fintan Knight, Infiniti EMEA vice-president. Fabre most recently served the company as global marketing strategy director in Hong Kong.Fabre succeeds Guillaume ...
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ArticleMoulding tools for the future
What visitors to EuroMold 2013 can expect at the mould-making and tooling expo in Frankfurt this DecemberThe programme for 2013Exhibitors with automotive interestsAs the world trade fair for mould-making and tooling design and development, EuroMold brings together buyers, suppliers and process experts from all parts of the globe. This year’s ...
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ArticleA South American sunrise?
Brazil leads the way for the automotive industry in a continent beset by economic and political challenges, writes Nick GibbsSouth America as a whole is becoming a hotbed of automotive production thanks to intense activity in Brazil, which is producing the bulk of vehicles and stimulating manufacturing elsewhere on the ...
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ArticleChanging the state of play
Fiat is building its most modern manufacturing plant in Brazil and will establish automotive production in a new area of the country.The OEM is investing 4.5 billion reais ($2 billion) in Brazil to build a new manufacturing facility at Goiana, in Pernambuco. The plant will have an initial production capacity ...
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ArticleInfiniti creates operations director role, EMEA
Switzerland – Brendan Norman will join the brand at the beginning of January 2014 as operations director with responsibility for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Norman has nearly two decades of experience in the automotive industry, including ten years at Volkswagen, six of them at Audi. Most recently he ...
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ArticleO que significará para a logística ter a Rússia sob a GME?
A decisão da General Motors de colocar as suas operações na Rússia de volta sob a gestão da General Motors Europa (GME) deve significar que suas operações de logística de compra serão eventualmente combinadas novamente também, embora a GM tenha se recusado a confirmar os detalhes sobre a gestão de ...
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ArticleMelhores tempos para o setor de logística de automóvel na Europa
O setor europeu de logística de veículos acabados, poderá respirar aliviado conforme o mercado automotivo finalmente parece ter atingido o fundo de um declínio de seis anos na venda de veículos novos, com a região propensa a voltar ao crescimento modesto no próximo ano, e constantemente subir durante o resto ...
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ArticleTriebel dirigirá a quarta região em Panalpina rejig
Panalpina nomeará Peter Triebel para chefiar uma nova quarta região em sua organização global de mercados. O provedor de logística realinhou sua região, configurada para incluir o Oriente Médio, África e Comunidade de Estados Independentes (MEAC), que entrará em vigor em janeiro de 2014, e nomeou Triebel como chefe de ...
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ArticleNigéria se prepara para expandir a indústria automobilística
O Conselho Executivo Federal da Nigéria aprovou uma política para desenvolver a produção da indústria automotiva do país e a base de fornecedores, e ao mesmo tempo limitar as importações estrangeiras de veículos, tanto para compras do governo como para aumento das tarifas. O plano do governo para Desenvolvimento ...