Representing an investment of BRL 11 million (USD2.15m), the new 3,500 square metre (m2) facility will substantially expand Jost Brasil's production capabilities and enable it to develop new components for buses, as well as parts for trucks and trailers.

Master has strengthened its position in the markets of South America with construction of a new semi-automatic warehouse and further investment in its S Camshaft brake production facility.

Utilising a modular system, the Krone Multi Safe System has the flexibility to allow a trailer operator to safely secure many different load types including paper and steel coils, sheet metal and palleted beverages.

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 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.

In the first half of 2022, trailer and components builder, Randon achieved consolidated net revenue of BRA5.2 billion (USD1bn), a 30% growth compared with the same period in 2021.

During an online event on 14 September, Thermo King Europe unveiled three new products in the Advancer portfolio of trailer refrigeration technologies: a multi-temperature trailer refrigeration unit; an emission-free trailer refrigeration unit; and an axle-based smart energy recovery system developed in partnership with BPW.

ZF is now offering fleet managers and other stakeholders a real-time AI-based automated decision-making fleet management solution called SCALAR that optimises the efficiency of freight logistics and passenger transportation all in one system. Claiming to set a new industry benchmark, SCALAR brings together advanced digital connectivity and future technologies, including autonomous driving, for mixed fleets.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Thermal Transport Europe GmbH (MTTE) is to offer an enhanced idem open-system telematics package with its refrigeration units.

By wire steering to be in series production for passenger cars from 2023, says ZF; but its still a few years away yet for inclusion in commercial vehicles. Find out why below.

Benalu will merge its activities with those of Legras, becoming the newly formed ‘Benalu-Legras Group’, with Benalu CEO Arnaud de Ponnat as Chairman and Legras President Jean-Rémy Legras as shareholder.