India’s Business Standard reports that Underwriters Laboratories (UL) has selected Bangalore to be its worldwide testing center. The Bangalore lab has been operating for ten years and does safety testing for approximately 1,200 Indian companies, including some in the automotive industry.
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Chennai Online reports:
HCL has become the first private sector in India to come up with its Electro Magnetic Compatibility (EMC) and Durability test lab. The lab located at Ambattur in Chennai is also the first to obtain the ISO/IEC 17025 Accreditation from the National Accreditation Board for Calibration and Testing Laboratories (NABL), India.
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Acheson recently announced that it has upgraded its acoustic laboratory to support the global weather strip seal coating market. The upgrade consists of adding Ziegler friction test systems to the MB dynamics instrumentation it already had to measure acoustic quality. Acheson also redesigned its acoustic laboratory to bring the ambient noise level below 30 decibels […]

About 25 years ago, I worked with a guy who was learning to read Chinese. At the time, I thought he was a bit daffy, but now I see that he had it right. With the world’s manufacturing all moving to China, Chinese-language skills will help engineers and manufacturing types get ahead.
Having said that, I […]

Modern Tire Dealer reports:
Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. has signed a contract with IDIADA Automotive Technology SA, a Spanish company, to allow Yokohama Rubber to preferentially use IDIADA’s new test track.
The test track is under construction. It is scheduled to start operation in April.
The term of the contract is 15 years, from 2008 through […]

India’s Central Chronicle reports:

Pithampur, which has earned the sobriquet of the Detroit of India for being hub of various automobile industries, will soon emerge as an important destination for Formula 1 car race in the country. A beginning in this regard has already been made with development of the National Automotive Test Track (NATRAX) here, […]

Test Site Sweden (TSS) at Lindholmen Science Park in Göteborg has been chosen as the Beta Integration site for the CVIS project, an important step towards the next generation of European Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). Test Site Sweden will provide world-leading demonstrations and test environments for innovative vehicle technology and infrastructure with the aim to […]

BizJournals.ComVolkswagen of America will donate $5.75 million to Stanford University to create the Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Lab (VAIL), on the Stanford University campus, and a new program for supporting automotive teaching and research. The VAIL and corresponding CarLab research and teaching program housed at VAIL, will help to accelerate automotive-related research on campus by increasing […]

GM Daewoo Auto & Technology Co., a unit of General Motors Corp., said it has completed a South Korean test center in which it invested 100 billion won ($110 million).
The Cheong-Na Proving Ground in Incheon, west of Seoul, includes a vehicle testing ground, research and development facilities and labs, GM Daewoo said in a statement.
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Shanghai General Motors Co., Ltd., a venture of Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (Group) (SAIC) and General Motors Corp., will formerly move its automotive proving grounds to Guangde County in Anhui Province from Chongming in Shanghai on October 12, 2007.
The new test field will be invested with CNY 1.9 billion and be built into the […]