Cabin Air: The Unseen Automotive Filter
Close to 90 percent of late-model cars and trucks now come factory-equipped with a cabin air filter, but the original filters in many of these vehicles have never been changed!
Counter-Tech: Don’t Hide — The Online Identity Based Economy Is Here
Join the crowd and make sure you don’t leave your company behind a pseudonym.
Polk Now Accepting Applications For The 2013 Polk Inventory Efficiency Award
All automotive aftermarket companies including manufacturers, retailers and distributors are eligible to apply for consideration.
In The Future, You’re Going To Print Automotive Parts
Yes, one day — and people can already do it to a limited extent — parts stores will be able to print the parts a customer wants. Sound outlandish? It’s not.
Advance Auto Parts Announces Acquisition Of BWP Distributors
Founded in 1962, BWP is a privately held company that supplies, markets and distributes automotive aftermarket parts and products principally to commercial customers.
Federated Reports Partnership With Toys For Tots A Huge Success
Federated Auto Parts and its participating members raised $140,000 and collected more than 4,000 toys.
New Raybestos Brand Brake Pads Released For Late-Model Import Applications
Additional coverage now available for more than 723,000 vehicles in operation.
Veyance Technologies Expands Coverage With 112 New Part Numbers In Automotive Aftermarket Line
Goodyear Engineered Products belts and hoses now cover more than 98 percent and 95 percent, respectively, of vehicles in operation. Over the past two years, the company reports that it added more than 1,000 part numbers in a concerted effort to expand coverage to more domestic and import vehicles.
AMS Automotive, APEX Automotive, Bando And German Mechanics Join ShowMeTheParts.com
With the most recent additions of AMS Automotive, APEX Automotive, Bando and German Mechanics, ShowMeTheParts.com now includes 210 brands covering almost 3,000 part types and millions of applications.
Akebono Brake Announces $82 Million Clarksville Plant Expansion
This newest expansion will take place in two phases, spanning across 2013 and into the second quarter of 2014, and includes construction of an on-site warehouse and installation of specialized furnaces during phase one and the addition of new equipment and machines in phase two. Upon completion of this expansion, Akebono will be capable of caliper machining, plating and assembly, a process it has not been able to do at its Clarksville facility in the past. The expansion also will create an additional 94 jobs.