The majority of shareholders of SAF-Holland SA last month voted in favour of changing the legal status of the truck and trailer components supplier to SAF-Holland SE, which stands for Societas Europaea and with the future registered office being in Bessenbach – where the company’s main manufacturing and operational headquarters already exist.

Global truck and trailer components, The SAF-Holland SE, reported group sales in the 2019 financial year of EUR1,284.2m, a slight decrease of 1.3% from EUR1,300.6m in 2018.

Starting in the first quarter of 2021, CV braking control dynamics specialist, the Haldex Group becomes the lead supplier of EBS and air suspension systems to the Wielton Group, one of Europe’s largest trailer manufacturers.

Knorr-Bremse AG has announced a high double-digit million Euro disc-brake supply extension contract with Europe’s biggest semi- trailer builder, Schmitz Cargobull AG of Horstmar, Germany.

British semi-trailer and rigid vehicle body builder, Don-Bur (Bodies & Trailers) Ltd has, for the first time, manufactured a lifting deck straight-frame tri-axle double deck trailer design with a lifting roof.

Moving floor trailer specialist, Knapen Trailers BV, has gained special certification for transporting paper rolls in its moving floor trailers.

Moving floor trailer specialist, Knapen Trailers, has in cooperation with engineering technology firm, Berkers Techniek B.V., announced it can exclusively offer a class 4 on-board weighing system with its Knapen moving floor bulk trailers used in manure transport

Following its acquisition of Italian parts supplier, V. Orlandi, SAF-Holland has expanded its product range with trailer couplings and drawbar eyes for different applications.

In the context of the lowest cost of ownership, Knapen Trailers BV is now offering an optional feature of a tilt-able aluminium plate to protect the roof sheet on all its other models of aluminium trailers.

Carrier Transicold has delivered the first new Vector HE 19 trailer refrigeration unit in the UK to the Dartmouth Crab Company which has been mounted on a 13.6m Gray & Adams reefer trailer.

Trailer manufacturer, Gray & Adams Ltd, working in partnership with perishable cargo transport specialist, Perishable Movements Ltd, has engineered an innovative refrigerated trailer with an automated loading and unloading system that features a powered roller-bed floor from Joloda International Ltd.

BPW Bergische Achsen KG has developed a new type of trailing arm and further lightweight components to further reduce the module weight of its nine-tonne Airlight II trailer running gear to less than 370kg.