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University of Tennessee to head $250M advanced composites manufacturing institute; Ford, Honda and Volkswagen members

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The new institute pairs leading carbon fiber producers and suppliers—such as Materials Innovation Technologies, Harper International, and Strongwell—with key end users such as TPI for wind turbines and Ford, Honda and Volkswagen for automobiles. PolyOne Corporation; PPG Industries, Inc.; Adherent Technologies, Inc.;

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Column: Pristine faces — and modern merchandise — get up up the provision chain

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It’s the break of day of a modern presen for the automobile provide chain. No longer simplest are the corporations that populate it converting, however so are the goods and the playgrounds. However conventional providers aren’t sitting idly by means of because the automobile global adjustments.

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GM advances EV rollout to extra branchs, with decrease costs

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To future, EV manufacturing has had a sluggish get started, even though output on GM’s proprietary Ultium platform gets a spice up when backup battery vegetation with three way partnership companions come on-line in Tennessee, Michigan and Indiana over the later few years, becoming a member of one already detectable in Ohio.

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Unifor goals to unionize Volkswagen’s EV battery plant in Ontario

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For “the first time in a long time,” she advised Automobile Information Canada , Unifor will “get to expand the unionized footprint” in Canada’s auto sector. However probably the most evident exception to those corporate norms is the plant closest to St Thomas. That is going to be our goal, I’m not going to sugar-coat it.”

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New lightweight metals institute will be headquartered in Detroit

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ALMMII will engage workforce partners from across the region to strengthen education and training pathways to high quality jobs in all transportation manufacturing sectors, including the automobile, aircraft, heavy truck, ship, rail and defense industries. The White House has referred to the institute as a “teaching factory.”.

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The Six People You Meet In the Car Business

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I spent 33 years in the automobile business, the equivalent of 96 human years. I also worked with senior executives& of well-respected automobile companies who were total sleazebags. It sometimes seem like automobile& dealers are the easiest companies to steal from. & These are their stories.

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Daimler/Renault-Nissan collaboration expanding

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The two CEOs cited the joint production of Mercedes-Benz four-cylinder gasoline engines in Decherd (Tennessee, USA) as a good example of how the partners profit from the cooperation. It is the first Infiniti automobile to have a powertrain comprising a diesel engine and automatic transmission from the cooperation with Daimler.

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