THE VOICE OF THE AFRICAN COLLISION REPAIR INDUSTRY

Axalta has officially opened its new, state-of-the-art, sustainable facility in the Netherlands to further strengthen its Dutch refinish business. The ultra-modern, strategically located facility in the Tiel municipality enables Axalta to provide more customers with its industry-leading refinish paint and non-paint products and services. The Axalta global refinish brands in the Netherlands – Cromax, Spies Hecker, Standox and Syrox.

The impacts stretch beyond inflation and corporate retreats to critical shortages upstream for semi-conductor and EV supply. Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine is first and foremost a human tragedy and has fast developed into a humanitarian crisis.
But it is also apparent that in an increasingly globalised and interconnected supply chain,

The Competition Tribunal has dismissed an application by Life Wise, trading as Eldan Auto Body, to excise its admission of cartel conduct, as contained in a consent agreement that was confirmed as an order of the tribunal in August 2020.

The Toyota State of the Motor Industry (TSOMI) is almost an institution at the beginning of each year now as it’s in its sixth year. It’s also probably listened to by more interested people as some truth and guidance as to what is happening in the total motor industry than anything you can trust being communicated by government.

If you’d like to know more about the origins of the word Horsepower… read on… British inventor James Watt (1736-1819) – the self-same guy who is perhaps more famous for his pioneering work on the earliest of steam-powered engines, first coined the word horsepower to find a measurement that would ‘rate’ the power output of his engines.

Volvo Cars has just announced that for its next generation of vehicles, it will be processing data from customer cars in real-time. The Swedish company will use traffic data from real-life situations to develop new safety technologies. This data would use continuous inputs on the car’s environment from sensors like the high-resolution LiDAR technology

Finding the highest quality garage equipment at an affordable price-point has been exceptionally difficult for most South African workshops, panel beaters and enthusiasts. Often consumers are forced to make a compromise on either price or quality. Furthermore, consumers often must visit multiple stores/locations to find the piece of equipment that they are looking for or even worse.

The question is on the minds of everyone who is interested in e-mobility: What happens to the battery when an e-vehicle has reached the end of its service life? The answer is simple: The new analysis software BattMAN ReLife checks their state of health in just a few minutes.

Born in 1920, Harold Baggott, had his first taste of getting behind the wheel of the Model T aged 10, driving the family’s milkman’s delivery float on a farm. He went on to get his licence in 1936 (the first year they were introduced), and purchased his first car,.

In a race day that started at the ungodly hour of 07h15 many highlights were given to the loyal band of petrol-headed enthusiasts who, like normal, parked at the sides of the unique Pretoria circuit. Despite a Covid limitation of just 2 000 spectators, there was scintillating racing right down the packed race programme.