MAY 2, 2017

French supplier Lectra is taking bold steps to change the way leather and other automotive interior fabrics are cut, using forward-looking processes designed to save up to $350 per vehicle interior.

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Leather is growing in popularity for automotive interiors and French supplier Lectra is at the forefront of an industry making the transition from traditional die-cutting methods of production to 21st-century digital laser-cutting. The company's Versalis machine now cuts 10% of the leather used in automotive interiors and the percentage is rising.

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Yes, That’s a Buick LaCrosse Among Industry’s Best

2017 WARDS 10 BEST INTERIORS
The new LaCrosse in many ways recalls old-school Buicks. It’s a long, wide sedan like the land yachts of its heyday, so the interior boasts loads of shoulder, leg and hip room.

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To Great Effect, CR-V Chooses Redesign Road Less Taken

2017 WARDS 10 BEST INTERIORS
Honda’s makeover of its venerable CUV for ’17 not only won over our judges, the redesign that’s anything but play-it-safe also has turned the best-selling model into one of the best-looking in its class.

SpeedNews' AeroAuto Conference on May 4, 2017 in Dearborn, Michigan will create synergy between the aerospace and automotive industries by providing a forum for idea sharing, problem solving and development of best practices and bringing leading executives, and decision makers together to build the future.

U.K. Engine Output Achieves Record First Quarter

Production in the first three months rose 11.4% to 744,338 units with the domestic market up 9.1% at 315,483 units, and exports rising 13.3% to 428,855.

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U.K. Research Center Bankrolling Seven Green Projects

This sixth round of APC funding since 2013 is forecast to create or preserve 2,370 jobs and keep the APC ahead of its target to save 50 million metric tons of carbon by 2023.

Sagging Exports Take Shine Off Thai Domestic Sales

The Federation of Thai Industries’ automotive section for now is maintaining its full-year export forecast of 1.2 million units, but the industry group says a revision is likely in July.

Engine Maker Cummins' Q1 Profit Beats Estimates

The Indiana-based engine maker, whose clients include heavy-truck manufacturers PACCAR, Navistar and Daimler, says the quarterly result prompted it to change its full-year revenue forecast to be up 4% to 7% after saying earlier it expected a drop of up to 5%.

Chinese Firm Buying Bosch's Starters and Generators Unit

Zhengzhou Coal Mining Machinery Group, backed by private-equity firm China Renaissance Capital Investment, is spending $595 million to acquire SG Holding, automotive supplier Robert Bosch's starters and generators business.

Korea Clears Samsung Electric to Test Autonomous Car

Although the government has greenlighted Samsung's request to test a driverless car equipped with its electronic parts and software, the company says it "has no plan to enter the car manufacturing business" but instead is focusing on developing a self-driving algorithm.

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