Jacobs Vehicle Systems Europe, manufacturer of heavy-duty diesel engine retarding and valve actuation systems, recently celebrated shipping its 50,000th engine brake manufactured from its European facility near Brno, which it opened a year ago in September 2019.

Europe’s second largest trailer builder, Krone Commercial Vehicle SE at a Covid-19-secure press conference last month announced some significant investments made in the past 18 months as well as a number to come in the next financial year.

Mack Defense, part of Volvo Group-owned Mack Trucks, has relocated its headquarters from rented accommodation in Allentown to the Mack Customer Centre in the same city.

Suffolk-based refrigerated transport specialist, Hubbard Products Ltd, is planning to relocate to a new site in Ipswich.

Scania AB has launched its first series production range of electric trucks.  

Volvo Group’s American subsidiary, Mack Trucks Inc, is to commercialise the LR Electric, its dedicated refuse collection model equipped with a fully electric integrated Mack drivetrain.

Patrick Collignon, a former Volvo Group executive, has established Trova Commercial Vehicles Inc.

Stuttgart-based development engineering specialist, Mahle GmbH, in co-operation with sports car manufacturer, Porsche and mechanical engineering company, Trumpf, has produced high-performance aluminium pistons using 3D printing techniques for the first time.

Gorky Auto Plant has presented the first examples of a new medium-duty city truck, the new Valdai NEXT generation.

Electric Class 8 truck and tractor manufacturing start-up, Nikola Corporation, has started construction of a one million square foot manufacturing facility on a 430-acre site in Coolidge.

Knorr-Bremse AG has been awarded a supply contract by trailer and bus manufacturer, NEFAZ, a subsidiary of JSC KAMAZ (Kama Automobile Plant).

This month (August) Peterbilt Motors Company (a truck manufacturing subsidiary of Paccar Inc) celebrates its 40th year of operation and production at its site and headquarters in Denton, Texas.