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Amper 2011: Producers of EVs and fast-charging stations to arrive at 19th year of fair

March 25, 2011 | 03:55am CEToriginal
EVs Peugeot iOn, Tesla Roadster, Skoda Superb, SOR EBN; competitions Amper - Idea and Gold Amper; exhibitors...
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PSA Peugeot Citroen begins limiting production in Europe due to earthquake in Japan

March 24, 2011 | 04:16am CEToriginal
The reason is a failure in the supply of components from Hitachi. The affected plants in France, Spain and Slovakia...
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IIR holds conference Production 2011 in Prague in mid-April

March 24, 2011 | 03:18am CEToriginal
Two workshops on the cost of production and lean production are related to the conference. Representatives of companies from the automotive industry will be speaking at the conference...
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Automakers and parts manufacturers are finding the impact of earthquakes in Japan on their production

March 16, 2011 | 02:43am CEToriginal
Production shutdowns, cancellation of overtime and weekend shift; the situation by Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Bridgestone, Skoda Auto, TPCA...
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Audi to start launching plug-in HEVs onto market in 2011, EVs to follow

March 15, 2011 | 02:48am CEToriginal
Q5 hybrid, A6 hybrid, A8, hybrid; power train and component suppliers; electric car concepts; fleet CO2 emissions...
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Toyota together with Hitachi and Panasonic work on intelligent power grid

February 23, 2011 | 04:27am CEToriginal
The effective supply of electricity without CO2 emissions, Toyota Smart Center for management of intelligent homes, control of charging processes for EVs and plug-in HEVs...
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Fehrenbach (Bosch): Life of smaller suppliers to be jeopardized by expensive commodities in 2011

February 2, 2011 | 05:13am CEToriginal
Those can also slow down economic growth in Europe. Some commodities are at two-year highs and moving close to the values before the crisis...
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Honeywell to place its new plant for turbochargers to Slovakia

January 31, 2011 | 05:15am CEToriginal
The company considered several locations in Central Europe. Location, amount of investment, jobs, the amount of state incentives...
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Karsten Muller became new technical head of Bosch Diesel in Czech Rep

January 31, 2011 | 05:09am CEToriginal
In the factory in Jihlava he replaced Michael Schollhorn, who moved to the German plant in Blaichach within the company’s rotation. Muller’s previous workplace...
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Sanyo plans to invest in production of li-ion batteries for HEVs, six carmakers to be supplied

January 31, 2011 | 04:56am CEToriginal
The amount of investment, location, dates of execution, customers, competitors...
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Continental reputedly wants to back out of planned merger with Schaeffler

January 31, 2011 | 04:39am CEToriginal
The company denied the information. Continental has been apparently looking for ways how to reduce the proportion of Schaeffler in some time...
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IIR holding professional conference Auto 2011 in Prague in early February

January 17, 2011 | 04:49am CEToriginal
The ninth year of the event will be focused on economic impacts, HR, current trends, strategies of OEMs or HEV. Speakers at the conference will be...
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Goodyear Dunlop Tires let several managers rotate in CEE at turn of the year

January 14, 2011 | 04:09am CEToriginal
These changes affected the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Tomas Vobr left for the representation in Ukraine, his position was taken over by Marek Hlavac, who came from...
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Bosch Diesel in Jihlava ended collective bargaining with trade unions, wages to increase by lump sum in 2011

December 22, 2010 | 05:24am CEToriginal
The previous collective agreement, an increase in surcharges, novelties for staff with fixed-term agreements, changes in the company holiday...
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Robert Koutny to leave Bridgestone, led Czech and Slovak representation for 10 years

December 17, 2010 | 04:56am CEToriginal
Bridgestone is currently changing the organizational structure in the CEE region. Koutny´s successor, details of a new Eastern Region organizational unit...
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Visteon developed system for timely turning of front lights to curve

December 15, 2010 | 04:05am CEToriginal
It moves from the steering angle and speed sensors to use of GPS. Carmakers’ interest in the system...
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Grupo Antolin to expand production in Czech Rep for carmaker Hyundai-Kia

December 14, 2010 | 04:03am CEToriginal
Due to a threat of flooding and under the pressure of German carmakers the company will move production within the Liberec Region. Details of both projects…
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Pal Magneton increasing sales and profits, gaining new contracts, strengthening quality and R&D, preparing optimize production in Kromeriz

December 14, 2010 | 03:31am CEToriginal
Expected results for the years 2010 and 2011, employment trends, the tool room hire, a new order from Bosch...
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Faurecia to buy indebted German automotive supplier Angell-Demmel

December 14, 2010 | 03:15am CEToriginal
Faurecia will strengthen its interior systems division and cooperation with leading German automakers. Details of the transaction...
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Visteon expects growth in orders in Czech Rep in coming years

December 14, 2010 | 03:06am CEToriginal
The current staff situation and outlook for 2011, current and new contracts in the automotive lighting division...
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Visteon: Efforts to reduce energy intensity of cars to lead carmakers and EV manufacturers to use LED technology

December 10, 2010 | 03:51am CEToriginal
Different requirements for LED daytime running lights at individual carmakers, the Skoda Octavia II with LED rear lights...
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Visteon C-Beyond: Dozens of innovative technologies of lighting and interior ready for serial production

December 9, 2010 | 04:43am CEToriginal
Possibilities of the LED technology, continuous beams allowing shading of other vehicles, vertical air-conditioning, a configurable touch screen...
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Czech police proposed introduction of mandatory originality checks when changing car registration and completing technical inspections

December 7, 2010 | 02:10am CEToriginal
Linking the national registries in Europe, carmaker’s database of service history of vehicles, the Year of Vehicle Security, the situation in Slovakia...
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German carmakers and tire manufacturers to shorten or cancel Christmas leave due to large number of orders

December 6, 2010 | 04:18am CEToriginal
The situation at companies Opel, Audi, BMW, Volkswagen, Continental; mandatory use of winter tires in Germany...
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Fastbox introduced loyalty program in Czech Rep, benefits may be also applied in Austria

November 26, 2010 | 01:40am CEToriginal
In the near future, the company is going to run its e-shop. Suppliers of parts and service catalogue, parameters of the loyalty program...
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