When complete, eleven hectares and 750 parking spaces for customer vehicles will be added.

Wabash began production of the 2026 DuraPlate Dry Van on 1 December last year, adding a new braking system and a lighter body.

The ten ‘Endurance’ TRUs were the first to be produced at the company’s new headquarters and production facility in Leatherhead.

Known for its supply of brake pads and linings to both the aftermarket and OE markets for more than 30 years, the company plans to ramp up the supply of brake discs and heavy-duty shock absorbers in North America.

In the future, the former Van Hool facility will produce stainless steel tankers, whereas GRW will produce aluminium products at its own facilities, said GRW CEO Gerhard van der Merwe.

Truck & Bus Builder learned that Sunswap’s marketing efforts are currently focused on the Benelux countries.

The new facility, covering 20,000 square feet, is located on the same site as the old facility in the Carrs Industrial Estate, which Solomon Commercials demolished following a fire in June 2023. 

CEAT's current TBR tyre production capacity is 3,000 tyres per day.

TRIDEC, as a part of JOST, is axle-agnostic, meaning it can service customers using all major axle brands (BPW, SAF-Holland etc) obviously including Jost Axles.  T&BB interviewed Johan Nieuwenhuis, Sales Director at TRIDEC to get a better sense of the company’s product offerings and its international footprint.

In our last feature on Maxion Wheels in Turkey, I made only brief mention of a very recent and significant development at the Manisa site: the construction of a new plant for forged aluminium wheels, designed not for light vehicles but for heavy trucks and other commercial vehicles. The decision to enter the CV aluminium wheel market was announced by Maxion Wheels at the last IAA Transportation in 2022; the news is important enough that it deserves an article to itself, and so I interviewed Matt Brest ahead of IAA Transportation 2024, where Maxion Wheels will show its forged aluminium wheels to the public for the first time.

This blue-chip UK truck show brought hundreds of exhibitors, fleet operators, policymakers, members of the public and of course, the T&BB team.

June saw Knorr-Bremse open a new manufacturing plant in Dalian in China’s Liaoning province, as it looks to increase its share of the local market for commercial vehicle braking systems.