Blue Bird Corporation has inaugurated a new 60,000 sq ft paint shop facility at its Fort Valley assembly plant. Blue Bird states the investment will provide best-in-class paint coverage, minimise waste and improve production efficiency in school bus manufacture.

Bespoke builder of highly specialist aluminium containers and bodies for trucks and trailers, Truckvan Indústria e Comércio Ltda plans to invest BRA3m (USD750,000) this year at its factory in Guarulhos to modernize, improve its production efficiency and to raise output.

Iveco Brasil Ltda has reinforced its medium-duty Tector truck range with two new models - the 9.190 and the 11.190 - in the nine- and 11-tons gross vehicle weight segments.

BYD Inc has expanded operations in North America by opening its first electric bus assembly plant in Newmarket.

Kohei Umeno, business development at CaetanoBus at UITP 2019 in Stockholm, last month announced it is planning to launch its second-generation electric bus chassis at Busworld 2019 in Brussels in October.

Volvo Trucks North America Inc has confirmed Volvo Active Driver Assist 2.0, a comprehensive collision mitigation system, will become standard equipment in the new Volvo VNR and VNL models, and available on VNX models, later this year.

Cummins Ltd, the European manufacturing hub for Cummins Inc, announced its readiness to meet Euro VI-step D emissions control with clean diesels at the UITP Congress.

Turkish bus and coach manufacturer, Temsa SA, has won a major tender to supply 326 buses to Romania.

Allision Transmission Inc is to build additional facilities in Indiana as part of investment and growth strategy plans involving more than USD400m expenditure over the next few years.

With its first electric bus orders having taken place to Strasburg last December, series production has started for Alstom’s purpose-designed full electric 12m Aptis city buses at its two factories near Alsace.

Bus builder, is to launch at Busworld the electric Movitas, a modular and compact city bus, which is available in lengths from 8.20m to 10.45m.

Following the announcement in April 2018 by FX Meiller Fahrzeug-und Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co KG it was investing EUR22m in a new tipper production facility at Oed-Öhling, Daniel Böhner, CEO, when visiting Tip-Ex 2019 in Harrogate last month, said the new plant would be ready to move into by November this year and start of production was scheduled for February next year.