Randon companies is to form a new joint venture company with Gerdau to lease trailers in Brazil.

In celebrating 25 years of operations, Brazilian axle manufacturer, Suspensys, announced major investments in axle production expansion and e-traction axle for trailers.

The transaction includes more than 100 IP assets, including 24 U.S. patents and 143 pending applications in battery pack design, manufacture, and management.

The three companies aim to develop a “Hydrogen Alliance”, providing customers with fuel cell-powered vehicles and a reliable supply of hydrogen fuel as part of a single and complete service.

From November 2022 Scania Latin America Ltda oplans to place the Scania P280 gas-powered truck - designed specifically for operations in Brazil’s sugar cane segment - on the market as part of its strategy to offer low carbon solutions in Brazil.

The new joint venture, called ElectroForge, will begin developing high-power, low-mass drivetrains for CVs (Classes 3-8) from Kalyani Powertrain's facility in Pune, Maharashtra.

The Terberg Business Lease Group, a joint venture formed in mid-2019 between Terberg and mobility services company AutoBinck Group, is being sold to Arval, an automotive leasing firm and division of international banking group BNP Paribas.

Series production has begun at the manufacturer’s facility in Tuve, Sweden, and will also take place at Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium next year.

The standardised interface of Schmitz’s TrailerConnect telematics has been integrated into the ‘TIP Insight’ system, and customers may choose to allow trailer data to automatically transfer from one to the other.

The planned joint venture would repurpose an existing Mercedes-Benz facility in Central or Eastern Europe for the production of electric vans based on two vehicle platforms.

Two FM Electric trucks will be deployed to handle the internal flow of goods between two Ikea factories located 14 kilometres apart in Zbąszynek and Babimost in western Poland.

Once installed, the electrolysers will have a capacity of 20 tons of hydrogen per day, operating across multiple sites in Europe and supplying fuel to forklift trucks and light commercial vehicles.