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Johnson Controls puts in $1.25 bn bid for Visteon businesses
It wants to buy Visteon's electronics and interiors business to add to its own, and the big prize is extra penetration of the Chinese market
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Lear's seven innovations take 25 lb out of automotive seat
New seating unveiled for 2011 by Lear makes weight savings through design and use of different materials
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Magna sets up seating venture in India
It's joining the Indian group Krishna to set up a manufacturing plant for car seats in the Pune region
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Bigger share for biological plastics on the cards in 2009
Toyota wants what it terms "Ecological Plastic" to account for 60 per cent of interior items on cars where it is used
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Whiplash test indicates 80% of seats need improving
Euro NCAP puts front seats from 25 recent cars through its new whiplash injury test and finds that only five of them are star performers
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Honda hybrid will tell drivers how fuel efficient they are
Dashboard system will show drivers when they're driving in optimum way and rate their performance over the long term too
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Innovative heat exchanger increases aircon efficiency
Visteon says its new design boosts performance by 14 per cent and works on the newer refriger ants too
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Mazda claims weight and recycle benefits for foam plastics
New technique puts supercritical fluids into resins to make recyclable lightweight foamed plastics
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French group starts production of new refrigerant gas
Arkema has started up production of R1234yf, an automotive air-conditioning gas that it intends will replace the global warming HFC134a
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Opel claims first with traffic sign detection unit
GM's European arm has been working with Hella on a system that will flash up speed signs and other relevant information on the dashboard
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Ford adjusts the pedals so shorter people can reach
You can move the brake and throttle pedals closer in the new Focus so that shorter people don't have to stretch
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Visteon and 3M collaborate on flexible interiors
Switches that appear only when you want them and other flexible options are part of a project between the component company and the materials firm
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Toyota's seat fabric is suitable for allergy sufferers
An agent on the fibres envelops the allergens formed from dead dust mites and their droppings (well, we never said it was all glamour in these pages)
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Faurecia aims to prove smart interiors needn't cost
Interior concepts set out to show that smart technology and upmarket finishes aren't just the preserve of luxury vehicles
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One-step moulding offers bright skins for cars
New one-stage plastics moulding process likely to find favour on upmarket vehicles, say Bayer and Faurecia
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VW develops touch-screen module for city cars
The cockpit unit in the Space Up four-door city car has a seven inch monitor as its human-machine interface
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Jaguar invests in rotary technology
The rotary-action dial provides shift-by-wire control of the automatic transmission - an industry first
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BMW is given the heads-up on lasers
Instrument cluster supplier Nippon Seiki is developing next-generation head-up displays (HUD)
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Ford set to put speech recognition into Focus and C-Max
The cars will get a new human-machine interface from Blaupunkt that includes voice recognition and text to speech technologies from Nuance
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Swedish vehicle makers first with alco-locks
Car and truck makers in Sweden take a lead in fitting devices to stop drunk drivers from getting their vehicles into motion
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Oshino shines light on safety
Oshino Lamps is developing proximity-sensing lights for use in side door panels that will have wider applications for safety
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Radical cockpit design eliminates the crosscar beam
ThyssenKrupp and Johnson Controls have come up with a mix of steel and plastics that is 20 per cent lighter and doesn't affect safety performance, they say
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Bayer and Dow aim to soften the blow for car occupants
Giant plastics groups have been working on making interiors more passenger friendly
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Build-your-own Lamborghini: at a price


Dealers take delivery of a virtual reality system that enables customers to specify exactly what they want inside and outside their ultraluxury sportscar
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Car seating company takes its ideas into aerospace
NuBax does innovative things with foam, and its seats are already in Lotus cars. Now it's hitting the aerospace market
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Polyolefin foams offer fire resistance
Tests on a new material from Sekisui Alveo show that it melts rather than generating sparks when subjected to a flame
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ArvinMeritor latches on to new technology
The door latches it's launching at IAA 2007 at Frankfurt combine software, electronics and innovative mechanical design
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Johnson Controls introduces processes for surfaces
Two new processes being unveiled at the IAA in Frankfurt are intended to offer interiors companies options in scratch-proof and matt surfaces.
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Lear stockholders reject private equity bid
The automotive seating group has turned down a bid led by the "active" shareholder Carl Icahn
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Filter material can take out the nanoparticles
Mann & Hummel introduces a new nanofibre-based material for filters intended to stop fine particles entering the passenger compartment of vehicles
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Dolby sound puts good vibrations into Freelander 2
There are 14 speakers and the reproduction quality of the 7.1 system is better than most domestic systems
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Soya bean foams make seat makers more comfortable
Criticism of the recyclability and high emissions of present foams is to be deflected with a new range coming out of natural materials
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Johnson Controls' floor module takes on Volvo job
The Volvo S80 is the first application for what JCI calls a new kind of floorpan module


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Dow unveils new foams for vehicle seating and trim
The aim is to cut the use of compounds and catalysts that could lead to unpleasant side-effects within the vehicle
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Collins & Aikman agrees sale of US flooring
The troubled group has agreed to sell to IAC, but needs the permission of its bankruptcy court first
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New instrument cluster design by Johnson Controls
The concept is an instrument cluster for the upper medium to luxury segment. Apart from its classic, contemporary design, the ease of use and potential for customisation are the distinctive features.

Johnson Controls instrument cluster concept
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Intier agrees to joint venture with DAS Korea
Intier Automotive Seating, an operating group of Magna International, has agreed to form a 50/50 joint venture with DAS Korea.
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Thinking inside the box
It seems that the trend in the automotive industry is increasingly moving towards using one interior supplier who has an answer for everything.
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Nissan displays new prototype multimedia car
Nissan displayed a new prototype vehicle at the 11th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems.
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Plug-and-play DAB digital radio becomes a reality
Frontier Silicon's Chorus chip is powering the latest major new innovation in DAB digital radio.
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Environmentally friendly air conditioning
Valeo has successfully developed an environmentally friendly air conditioning system which meets future EU regulations.
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Delphi's SIRIUS for Chrysler
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TVR takes on new speaker technology
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Following a philosophy
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Best green option
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Touching the senses
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