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Atlas Copco acquired Extend3D (producer of dynamic 3D augmented reality/AR systems for worker support in Industry 4.0 environment with 16 employees in Munich, Germany; customers: BMW Group, IndiKar Individual Karosseriebau/Welp Group, LMC Caravan, SD Automotive, Opel, Meyer Werft, Knaus Tabbert, Siemens, ITER, ThyssenKrupp; revenues of EUR 3 million in 2022), integrating it into Motor Vehicle Industry (MVI) Tools & Assembly Systems division belonging to Industrial Technique business unit

October 27, 2023 | 11:51am CETflash
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SMMT: Car production in UK up by 39.8% y/y in September and by 14.9% to 659,901 in Q1-3, commercial vehicle (buses, coaches, vans, trucks, taxis) manufacturing down by 5.2% and up by 11.4% to 85,540

October 27, 2023 | 11:45am CETflash
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AutoSAP: 18,942 (passenger) electric vehicles produced in Czechia in September and 134,345 in Q1-3 (13,498 and 98,013 battery electric vehicles, 5,444 and 36,332 plug-in hybrids), of which 18,937 and 134,324 cars (Škoda: 9,307 and 66,004 BEVs, 3,111 and 14,659 PHEVs; Hyundai: 4,186 and 31,988 BEVs, 2,333 and 21,673 PHEVs) and 5 and 21 buses (SOR: 5 and 21 BEVs, 0 and 0 PHEVs; Škoda Electric: 0 and 0 BEVs, 0 and 0 PHEVs)

October 27, 2023 | 11:39am CETflash
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MS Technik (manufacturer of metal parts for automotive industry in Czechia, Slovakia with more than 200 employees in Šenov near Nový Jičín, Rožnov pod Radhoštěm) electroplating/galvanisation plant in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm hit by fire on October 21, no one injured

October 26, 2023 | 10:56am CETflash
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e-Salon 2022: 87 exhibitors (+7.4%, 2021: 81) and 20,573 visitors (+25.7%, 16,373), who completed 1,823 test drives (+18.5%, 1,538), joined 4th clean mobility fair in Prague, Czechia (November 10-13)

October 26, 2023 | 10:50am CETflash
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Insurance companies in Czechia raised prices of damage liability in 2018

November 19, 2018 | 11:21pm CEToriginal
The increase of insurance premiums by units to tens of percent according to risk, reasons, situation in commercial vehicles and fleet clients, statements of individual companies...
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