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8 Mar 2007
Coors Brewers Selects Nobilas Claims & Fleet Solutions as its Accident Management provider
Hoofddorp, the Netherlands, 8 March 2007 – Nobilas Claims and Fleet solutions, the Akzo Nobel company specialising in accident management, has been appointed by Coors Brewers Ltd, as the firm’s sole supplier of accident management services for their UK fleet.
Under the branded VELO Accident Management program, Nobilas and partner Leasedrive VELO, the largest independent vehicle management group in the UK, are managing Coors Brewers’ entire fleet of company cars.
Coors Brewers, whose brands include Carling, Grolsch, Worthington’s and Coors Fine Light, switched from its previous accident management provider to obtain the simplicity, efficiency and cost controls offered by the Nobilas and Leasedrive VELO program.
7 Mar 2007
Nobilas Claims & Fleet Solutions
Company
- Nobilas is a business-to-business accident management provider operating in Europe and North America. Its clients encompass auto insurers, leasing and rental companies and corporate fleet owners.
GE Plastics’ high-performance composites and thermoplastics are taking the spotlight with close to 30 diverse applications for Hyundai’s advanced technology demonstration vehicle (ATDV), the QarmaQ. The crossover utility vehicle (CUV) is a joint project of GE Plastics and Hyundai to demonstrate the design freedom and practicality of using plastics in components traditionally manufactured from metal, glass, and thermosets. It features GE’s advanced technologies in five key areas: the Elastic Front*, exterior, interior, lighting systems, and underhood.
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PITTSBURGH, Feb. 20, 2007 – PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ICI India Ltd., Mumbai, India, to facilitate the acquisition of ICI’s premium automotive refinish business. Upon closing, the business would be acquired by Asian PPG Industries Ltd., a 50 percent joint venture of PPG and Asian Paints Ltd., also of Mumbai. The closing is scheduled for mid-March and is subject to certain conditions. The transaction is valued at approximately $12 million.
Gent, Belgium – March 5th, 2007 - The Sumitomo Bakelite Group announces the acquisition of Neopreg AG, a Swiss producer of long fiber thermoset composites marketed under the trade names Kinel and Neonite. Neopreg, based in Gelterkinden, has unique technology for producing these composites that complements technologies used by Sumitomo’s existing specialty composites business. Neopreg will be integrated into Vyncolit N.V., Sumitomo’s subsidiary that produces moldable composites in Europe, but will retain its name. Henny van Dijk, President of Vyncolit N.V., has assumed leadership since February 19, 2007. 