Faurecia Interior Systems (FIS) has commenced the construction of its new Rs 50-crore instrument panel (IP) plant in Andhra Pradesh. The greenfield factory is located at Kia Motors India’s component Vendor Park ‘A’ at Ammavaru Palli, Penukonda Tehsil, Anantpur district in Andhra Pradesh. Faurecia recently bagged the order from Kia Motors for the first time. The IP manufacturer will supply[Read More…]
Kia Motors India interacted and engaged with over 200 automobile suppliers from across the country as a part of their search for component supply partners. Kia Motors had organised the event to identify and enter into long term partnerships with the finest suppliers of the country, with an intention to localise all components, to ensure competitive maintenance costs of future[Read More…]
Nirmala Behera Udgata, Executive Director – Group HR & Priyanka Behera, Head – Group CSR, RSB Group, have been conferred with Hall of Fame (Individual Category), The Golden Globe Tigers Award 2018, respectively for Excellence in HR Leadership & Excellence in CSR Leadership at World HR & CSR Congress, Kula Lumpur, which is attended by HR & CSR fraternity and dignitaries from Europe,[Read More…]
Society for Automotive Fitness & Environment (SAFE), a SIAM initiative in association with Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, Transport Department Government of Assam, organised its annual convention in Guwahati, Assam. The theme for this year’s convention was “Enforcement, Intelligent Transportation and Training for Safer Roads”, which was aimed at addressing the safety hazards that our roads present due to[Read More…]
Story & Photos: Bhargav TS Hiwin Motion Control and System Technology will focus more on automation to cater to the needs of the Indian machining industry. The company, a manufacturer of linear guideways, linear motors, actuators, ball screws etc., plans to provide pick and place robots for the machining industries to increase speed and productivity. “We are the manufacturers of[Read More…]
Story by: Bhushan Mhapralkar Following, manufacturing engines for Mercedes-Benz and BMW automobiles sold in India, Force Motors has now entered into a joint venture with Rolls-Royce Power Systems AG. The joint venture company, Force MTU Power Systems Pvt. Ltd., will have Force Motors holds 51% stake and Rolls-Royce Powers Systems the remaining. With an investment of Rs. 300 crore (in[Read More…]
Auto Component Manufacturers Association of India (ACMA), the apex body representing the interest of Indian Auto Component Industry with the support of ‘Ministry of Commerce’ will be participating at Automechanika Dubai 2018 for the 5th straight edition. The show, organized by Messe Frankfurt Middle East will be held at Dubai World Trade Centre from 1st – 3rd May 2018. Being one of the[Read More…]
Millions of Indians drive on Roads and 400 never come back home, everyday. Road Deaths are biggest cause of Unnatural Deaths in our Country. Pedestrians are killed across the country and contributed to the significant share of these deaths. Believing in “Sadak Suraksha – Jeevan Raksha “, NGO, DRIVE SMART DRIVE SAFE is organising, the 250 KM relay walkathon from[Read More…]
Mahindra Electric and Meru, the pioneer of tech enabled cab services, announced a collaboration for a pilot EV project in Hyderabad with the intention to replicate the same model in other cities soon. The pilot will see Meru deploy a fleet of eVeritos, the all-electric sedan by Mahindra. Speaking on the collaboration Mahesh Babu, CEO Mahindra Electric said, “As pioneers of electric[Read More…]
The most comprehensive study on Brand Trust in the country—TRA’s India’s Most Trusted Brands—has been released for 2018 by TRA Research, part of the Comniscient Group. Though several Chennai-based brands have made to the top 1000, the number of inclusions has nearly halved from last year displaying reducing trust on Chennai-based brands. TRA’s Brand Trust Report – 2018 is conducted[Read More…]
Text: Bhargav TS If you want to buy a frugal engineered car, go for Japanese vehicles, or if you want performance vehicles go for European cars. If you want to buy a Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) go for Mahindra vehicles. The SUV specialist has wide range of SUVs including XUV500, Scorpio, Bolero and Quanto which sell in large numbers in[Read More…]
