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Yamaha Motor produces 3 mn Performance Damper since 2004 – ET Auto

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The Yamaha Performance Damper is a vehicle body vibration damper that is installed in the main parts of passenger cars and motorcycles. has produced a total of three-million of the Yamaha Performance Damper , an anti-vibration damper for automobiles since its manufacturing began in 2004, the company said.

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NHTSA announces follow-up recall of 2.12 million cars and SUVs over TRW airbag defects

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million Acura, Dodge, Jeep, Honda, Pontiac, and Toyota vehicles from model years 2002 to 2004 for a defect that may cause airbags to deploy inadvertently. The vehicles were subject to earlier recalls to address a problem with an electronic component manufactured by TRW that caused some airbags to deploy in the absence of a crash.

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Ford Begins Manufacture of EcoBoost Engines at Cleveland Plant

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1, which becomes the first manufacturing site to build Ford’s new fuel-efficient EcoBoost engines. The Cleveland Engine Plant has been outfitted with a flexible manufacturing system for powertrains, featuring modern machine tools that easily can be retooled and reprogrammed to perform new tasks with minimal disruption to production.

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Raízen investing in cellulosic ethanol company Iogen; joint development of cellulosic ethanol project in Brazil

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billion liters of ethanol annually, 4 million tons of sugar, and has installed capacity of 900 MW of electric energy derived from sugar cane bagasse. Iogen Energy has been producing cellulosic ethanol at its Ottawa demonstration plant since 2004 where is has manufactured more than two million liters (528,000 gallons US).

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Kansas City Assembly Plant comes on line as second US plant building new Ford F-150

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In January, F-Series had its strongest sales month since 2004—Ford’s best sales year ever for F-150. Similar to the work Dearborn Truck Plant received, 13 weeks were spent upgrading Kansas City Assembly Plant with the latest in advanced materials and forming and joining technologies to support F-150’s innovative manufacturing process.

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Toyota to pay $180M penalty for Clean Air Act reporting violations

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Toyota Motor Sales USA and Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America for systematic, longstanding violations of Clean Air Act emission-related defect reporting requirements, which require manufacturers to report potential defects and recalls affecting vehicle components designed to control emissions.

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Ford Invests $155M in Engine Plant to Support New 3.7L V-6 for Mustang

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Ford’s $155 million investment there includes $121 million in manufacturing investment at the plant and $34 million for launch and engineering. The program is helping to develop advanced technology vehicles and strengthen American manufacturing across the country. Sixty new jobs have been added to the plant to support the new engine.

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