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Do what with your van?
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders has launched an on-line survey of van users. On the SMMT website at www.smmt.co.uk/industryissues it aims at van operators, particularly those with smaller fleets. "It is quick and easily done and will help van users and makers," said Robin Dickeson, manager, commercial vehicle affairs at the SMMT. "The more we know about what makes van users tick, the better." Vans are the fastest growing vehicle market in the UK with sales more than doubling to over 380,000 a year in the past ten years. "There is too little information on the way people run vans, so we'll use our findings to help us understand the market and some of the pressures that shape it." The survey will run till the end of August.
More from Robin Dickeson on +44 (0)2 073 449 222 or rdickeson@smmt.co.uk
First for Piaggio at Motor Show
Piaggio Commercial Vehicles says it will be at this week and next's British International Motor Show for the first time since importing the Piaggio Porter range into the UK. The firm will have vehicles in the What Van? Live display and on its stand. These include a petrol-powered and factory-built tipper, an electric powered van and petrol powered 4x4, the latter on Piaggio's stand. The firm says prices start at £6,495. The Porter electric van pays no Congestion Charge, has an 80-mile range between and can be fully charged in two hours through a three-phase supply or in eight hours through a 13-amp socket. The British International Motor Show runs from Wednesday 23 July to Sunday 3 August at ExCel, in London's docklands.
More from Nicola Dandridge on +44 (0)1 491 415 230 or nd@henleymotorholdings.co.uk
Ben's Mille Miglia rally
The 2008 annual Ben rally runs over 2,600 miles from a start in England then through France, Switzerland and into Italy, from 20 to 29 September. "It's our very own version of the Mille Miglia Rally," said Laura Williams, for the charity. The entry fee covers ferry crossings, accommodation, evening meals and breakfast, refreshments on driving days and mechanical support. "The Ben Mille Miglia rally passes through some of Italy's most famous towns and villages and there are still places available on this event so please contact us for more information and come along." All proceeds go to help men, women and children who have a connection to the automotive and related industries.
More from Laura Williams on +44 (0)1 344 294 722 or laura.williams@ben.org.uk
Hannover truck show to break records
The VDA, the German automotive industry trade association behind the IAA Hannover truck show, says the 2008 event will set records for the number of exhibitors, the amount exhibition space and number of countries represented. Over 2,000 exhibitors from 47 countries will between them use 275,000m2, up 10% on the previous record. The number of exhibitors is up by 25% on the previous record, set by the IAA truck show in 2006. To help house the event it will spread into three more halls than last year at the exhibition centre on the outskirts of Hannover. The show opens to the public on Thursday 25 September and closes on Thursday 2008.
More from Eckehart Rotter on +49 (0)69 97507 266 or rotter@vda.de
Ben's Summer Concert
The Ben Summer Concert is on Saturday 6 September at the charity's residential centre, Lynwood, in Ascot. The Masters of The House will do popular songs from some of the most celebrated West-End musicals. "We're looking for sponsors for this event and the package includes 20 tickets for your guests, a private marquee with champagne, an excellent company profile at the event, post-event press, three-course supper with wine for each guest and front row seats at the concert," said Laura Williams. "There are also tables of 10, individual and picnic tickets available." All proceeds go to help men, women and children who have a connection to the automotive and related industries.
More from Laura Williams on +44 (0)1 344 294 722 or laura.williams@ben..org.uk
Pirelli widens filter sales
Pirelli says its particulate filters are working successfully on public transport vehicles, company cars, and private vehicles in various Italian cities. In 2008, the firm started selling its filter systems in Germany, the Netherlands and Britain. In the second half of this year Pirelli's new factory in Gorj, Romania will start work, mainly making automotive filters. The firm also says that the joint venture deal it is discussing with Russian Technologies includes a possible start for particulate filter making in Russia.
More from Sarah Brown on +44 (0)1 283 525 479 or sarah.brown.st@pirelli.com
Truck makers want global standards
Van and truck maker bosses pretty much all want more effective global standards, particularly for emissions. So said most of the senior truck industry figures speaking at the VDA's recent 'curtain raiser' press conference for this autumn's Hannover truck show. Three sets of regulations dominate, one based on European laws, a second based on Japanese and a third based on North American requirements. The lack of global standards means vehicle makers have to design, develop and test three different engines to do the same job, when one would do. "We need 1,000 engineers on engine development," said Goran Simonson at Volvo. "If there was one clear global standard, maybe we could halve that number." As it is, he says manufacturers are paying and inevitably passing on extra costs to customers. "Eventually these hit consumers, and for no clear benefit."
More from Nigel Hanwell on +44 (0)1 926 414 210 or nigel.hanwell@volvo.com
Pirelli aims to cut Beijing bus emissions by over 95%
Pirelli has won a pilot project, launched ahead of the Beijing Olympic Games that should cut particulate emissions from diesels by over 95%. The Italian Ministry for the Environment and the Municipality of Beijing will run a pilot project in the Chinese capital to test particulate filter technology developed by Pirelli Eco Technology. This will be tried on buses and later on trucks, snowploughs and tractors used by the local public transport company. The first filter systems will be installed before the start of the Olympics with the rest fitted later. This is part of a wider Sino-Italian deal on environmental protection, begun in 2000 and which has led to more than 80 projects.
More from Sarah Brown on +44 (0)1 283 525 479 or sarah.brown.st@pirelli.com
More AdBlue from Manchester
Multisol has a new plant in Irlam, Manchester producing AdBlue for GreenChem. The plant, capable of some 30 to 40 million litres a year, means GeenChem's output of UK-produced AdBlue will triple. The plant joins one already on line in Peterlee, County Durham and is the second of four British plants planned to produce AdBlue for GreenChem by the end of 2008. The company is the only AdBlue supplier solely dedicated to the product and says it is already the UK market leader.
More from Martin Hayes on +44 (0) 2 074 948 050 or mhayes@automotivepr.com
Sweet success for NYK Logistics
Confectionery maker, Dunhills Haribo plc has extended its contract with NYK Logistics (UK) Ltd for another 12 months. The Pontefract-based confectioner says it is Britain's No. 1 gums & jellies maker by volume and value. NYK will do everything from factory clearance, warehousing and case picking through to final delivery to all major multiple and independent retailers and wholesalers for Dunhills Haribo. It handles almost 2,000 pallets a week and stores for up to 11,000 pallets in an 80,000 ft2 warehouse with a team of 52 staff picking around 120,000 cases a day at peak for delivery to 800-drop points throughout the UK.
More from Faye Baker on +44 (0)1 530 276 550 or faye@q-storm.co.uk
RHA welcomes MPs' findings on foreign trucks
The Road Haulage Association says it welcomes Transport Select Committee's finding that the high fuel taxes UK hauliers pay compared with their EU rivals are unfair and that the Government should do something. In its Freight Transport Report, published last Friday last week, the committee repeats the comments that the RHA has been making to the Government for years.. "The government must stop pretending that there is no problem and that in any case nothing can be done," said RHA Chief Executive Roger King. "If it cannot announce measures immediately, then the pre-Budget statement presents the ideal alternative," concluded Roger King.
More from Kate Gibbs on +44 (0)1 932 838 917 or kate.gibbs@rha.net
And finally
News Scientists Feedback column says that a brochure for a research symposium at the University of Maryland states: "Please note: We've gone paperless." Reader Mike Adams was left wondering what he was holding.
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders has launched an on-line survey of van users. On the SMMT website at www.smmt.co.uk/industryissues it aims at van operators, particularly those with smaller fleets. "It is quick and easily done and will help van users and makers," said Robin Dickeson, manager, commercial vehicle affairs at the SMMT. "The more we know about what makes van users tick, the better." Vans are the fastest growing vehicle market in the UK with sales more than doubling to over 380,000 a year in the past ten years. "There is too little information on the way people run vans, so we'll use our findings to help us understand the market and some of the pressures that shape it." The survey will run till the end of August.
More from Robin Dickeson on +44 (0)2 073 449 222 or rdickeson@smmt.co.uk
First for Piaggio at Motor Show
Piaggio Commercial Vehicles says it will be at this week and next's British International Motor Show for the first time since importing the Piaggio Porter range into the UK. The firm will have vehicles in the What Van? Live display and on its stand. These include a petrol-powered and factory-built tipper, an electric powered van and petrol powered 4x4, the latter on Piaggio's stand. The firm says prices start at £6,495. The Porter electric van pays no Congestion Charge, has an 80-mile range between and can be fully charged in two hours through a three-phase supply or in eight hours through a 13-amp socket. The British International Motor Show runs from Wednesday 23 July to Sunday 3 August at ExCel, in London's docklands.
More from Nicola Dandridge on +44 (0)1 491 415 230 or nd@henleymotorholdings.co.uk
Ben's Mille Miglia rally
The 2008 annual Ben rally runs over 2,600 miles from a start in England then through France, Switzerland and into Italy, from 20 to 29 September. "It's our very own version of the Mille Miglia Rally," said Laura Williams, for the charity. The entry fee covers ferry crossings, accommodation, evening meals and breakfast, refreshments on driving days and mechanical support. "The Ben Mille Miglia rally passes through some of Italy's most famous towns and villages and there are still places available on this event so please contact us for more information and come along." All proceeds go to help men, women and children who have a connection to the automotive and related industries.
More from Laura Williams on +44 (0)1 344 294 722 or laura.williams@ben.org.uk
Hannover truck show to break records
The VDA, the German automotive industry trade association behind the IAA Hannover truck show, says the 2008 event will set records for the number of exhibitors, the amount exhibition space and number of countries represented. Over 2,000 exhibitors from 47 countries will between them use 275,000m2, up 10% on the previous record. The number of exhibitors is up by 25% on the previous record, set by the IAA truck show in 2006. To help house the event it will spread into three more halls than last year at the exhibition centre on the outskirts of Hannover. The show opens to the public on Thursday 25 September and closes on Thursday 2008.
More from Eckehart Rotter on +49 (0)69 97507 266 or rotter@vda.de
Ben's Summer Concert
The Ben Summer Concert is on Saturday 6 September at the charity's residential centre, Lynwood, in Ascot. The Masters of The House will do popular songs from some of the most celebrated West-End musicals. "We're looking for sponsors for this event and the package includes 20 tickets for your guests, a private marquee with champagne, an excellent company profile at the event, post-event press, three-course supper with wine for each guest and front row seats at the concert," said Laura Williams. "There are also tables of 10, individual and picnic tickets available." All proceeds go to help men, women and children who have a connection to the automotive and related industries.
More from Laura Williams on +44 (0)1 344 294 722 or laura.williams@ben..org.uk
Pirelli widens filter sales
Pirelli says its particulate filters are working successfully on public transport vehicles, company cars, and private vehicles in various Italian cities. In 2008, the firm started selling its filter systems in Germany, the Netherlands and Britain. In the second half of this year Pirelli's new factory in Gorj, Romania will start work, mainly making automotive filters. The firm also says that the joint venture deal it is discussing with Russian Technologies includes a possible start for particulate filter making in Russia.
More from Sarah Brown on +44 (0)1 283 525 479 or sarah.brown.st@pirelli.com
Truck makers want global standards
Van and truck maker bosses pretty much all want more effective global standards, particularly for emissions. So said most of the senior truck industry figures speaking at the VDA's recent 'curtain raiser' press conference for this autumn's Hannover truck show. Three sets of regulations dominate, one based on European laws, a second based on Japanese and a third based on North American requirements. The lack of global standards means vehicle makers have to design, develop and test three different engines to do the same job, when one would do. "We need 1,000 engineers on engine development," said Goran Simonson at Volvo. "If there was one clear global standard, maybe we could halve that number." As it is, he says manufacturers are paying and inevitably passing on extra costs to customers. "Eventually these hit consumers, and for no clear benefit."
More from Nigel Hanwell on +44 (0)1 926 414 210 or nigel.hanwell@volvo.com
Pirelli aims to cut Beijing bus emissions by over 95%
Pirelli has won a pilot project, launched ahead of the Beijing Olympic Games that should cut particulate emissions from diesels by over 95%. The Italian Ministry for the Environment and the Municipality of Beijing will run a pilot project in the Chinese capital to test particulate filter technology developed by Pirelli Eco Technology. This will be tried on buses and later on trucks, snowploughs and tractors used by the local public transport company. The first filter systems will be installed before the start of the Olympics with the rest fitted later. This is part of a wider Sino-Italian deal on environmental protection, begun in 2000 and which has led to more than 80 projects.
More from Sarah Brown on +44 (0)1 283 525 479 or sarah.brown.st@pirelli.com
More AdBlue from Manchester
Multisol has a new plant in Irlam, Manchester producing AdBlue for GreenChem. The plant, capable of some 30 to 40 million litres a year, means GeenChem's output of UK-produced AdBlue will triple. The plant joins one already on line in Peterlee, County Durham and is the second of four British plants planned to produce AdBlue for GreenChem by the end of 2008. The company is the only AdBlue supplier solely dedicated to the product and says it is already the UK market leader.
More from Martin Hayes on +44 (0) 2 074 948 050 or mhayes@automotivepr.com
Sweet success for NYK Logistics
Confectionery maker, Dunhills Haribo plc has extended its contract with NYK Logistics (UK) Ltd for another 12 months. The Pontefract-based confectioner says it is Britain's No. 1 gums & jellies maker by volume and value. NYK will do everything from factory clearance, warehousing and case picking through to final delivery to all major multiple and independent retailers and wholesalers for Dunhills Haribo. It handles almost 2,000 pallets a week and stores for up to 11,000 pallets in an 80,000 ft2 warehouse with a team of 52 staff picking around 120,000 cases a day at peak for delivery to 800-drop points throughout the UK.
More from Faye Baker on +44 (0)1 530 276 550 or faye@q-storm.co.uk
RHA welcomes MPs' findings on foreign trucks
The Road Haulage Association says it welcomes Transport Select Committee's finding that the high fuel taxes UK hauliers pay compared with their EU rivals are unfair and that the Government should do something. In its Freight Transport Report, published last Friday last week, the committee repeats the comments that the RHA has been making to the Government for years.. "The government must stop pretending that there is no problem and that in any case nothing can be done," said RHA Chief Executive Roger King. "If it cannot announce measures immediately, then the pre-Budget statement presents the ideal alternative," concluded Roger King.
More from Kate Gibbs on +44 (0)1 932 838 917 or kate.gibbs@rha.net
And finally
News Scientists Feedback column says that a brochure for a research symposium at the University of Maryland states: "Please note: We've gone paperless." Reader Mike Adams was left wondering what he was holding.
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