V Orlandi SpA is an Italian manufacturer known for its various components for connecting tractor units to semi-trailers. As it happens, so is its parent company SAF-Holland SE, which acquired Orlandi in 2018. Perhaps it should come as no surprise, then, that SAF-Holland is currently merging Orlandi more closely with its own business operations, with the aim of combining them into a single business unit for towing systems.

Benalu SA is a formidable presence in its home territory of France. The specialist manufacturer of aluminium tippers and moving floor semi-trailers claims that it controls 32% of the tipper market in France; a marked contrast to its performance in Italy where it sold just 30 units from its entire portfolio in 2021.

SAF-Holland has acquired truck and trailer parts supplier IMS Ltd from Dutch firm IMS Group, with the view of expanding its market share in Britain and Ireland. 

Randon's new automation and digitalization division, RTS has acquired a controlling stake (80%) in the robotics automation division of Auttom for BRA14 million.

The tipping trailer and tipper body builder was sold to TVS, a builder of specialist commercial vehicles, but will retain its current management.

Grantham-based tipping trailer builder Fruehauf Ltd has been bought out of administration by truck supplier MV Commercial, based in Airdrie, Scotland. Fruehauf had traded under the control of administrators for four weeks, with the completed sale protecting 120 jobs at the company’s 674-acre site in Lincolnshire.

Total Vehicle Solutions has acquired aluminium trailer and tipper body manufacturer, Wilcox Group Ltd, trading as Wilcox Commercial Vehicles (Wilcox) and based in Market Deeping, Peterborough.

Hübner GmbH & Co KG (Hübner Group) of Kassel Germany has acquired Dutch electro-hydraulic chassis steering specialist, V.S.E. Vehicle Systems Engineering B.V. of Veenendaal, Netherlands, for an undisclosed sum from Weber-Hydraulik Group, which has owned VSE since 2014.

Jost-Werke AG of Neu-Isenburg, Germany, a manufacturer and supplier of coupling components for trucks and trailers has been bought by investment fund management company, sold Edbro Ltd of Bolton, UK to Enact and its fund manager, Endless LLP of Leeds, UK for an undisclosed sum.

LIH, a division of Group I. Reidi & Cia Ltda of Cascavel, Paraná State, has bought the operational assets of Guerra S.A. of Caxias do Sul, which had been Brazil’s second largest trailer and body builder, until its bankruptcy in 2017.

The management team of solar-power transport solutions company, TRAILAR Ltd, has successfully completed a management buyout from Deutsche Post DHL Group.

The Austrian trailer firm intends to take advantage of Hüffermann's expertise in the construction and infrastructure vehicle sectors in order to increase its market share particularly in Germany.