From AUTOMOBILES 3:21pm

Car part suppliers embrace flexible future

Workers assemble a Volkswagen car in Wolfsburg. ©AFP

Europe’s component makers coping well amid falling vehicle sales

A burnt auxiliary power unit battery removed from a Japan Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft ©Reuters From AEROSPACE & DEFENCE 9:25am

787 battery maker cleared by first probe

No evidence of problems at Japan’s GS Yuasa

From LEX Jan 28, 2013

Caterpillar in China

Fight with ERA should not be allowed to sink quietly

From AUTOMOBILES Jan 28, 2013

VW to build Golf hatchback in Mexico

Move part of carmaker’s ambitious plans for North America

From MEDIA Jan 28, 2013

Demand for restraint to hit bonuses

Many groups also plan to freeze pay

Land Rover Jaguar Plant From WORLD Jan 27, 2013

Strong car exports to slash trade deficit

Investment boosts UK production but fears voiced over eurozone woes

China manufacturing ©Getty Jan 27, 2013

Chinese industrials set for profit surge

Rebound in the fourth quarter of last year

From ENERGY Jan 27, 2013

Sabanci eyes extra $2bn for power arm

JV partner Eon also injecting the same amount

Volvo truck ©Bloomberg Jan 26, 2013

Volvo to take minority stake in Dongfeng

Swedish company to pay $1bn for 45% of Chinese truckmaker

Jan 25, 2013

Machinery sales dented at Caterpillar

First drop in over two years as Asia and North America demand slows

From AUTOMOBILES Jan 24, 2013

Jaguar profit warning dents Tata Motors

Shares slide after key UK division forecasts stalled profits

Jan 24, 2013

3M looks for boost after solid results

Conglomerate to review profitability of lagging units

From AUTOMOBILES Jan 24, 2013

Hyundai compensation payment hits profit

Carmaker’s shares fall as fourth-quarter results slip

Jan 23, 2013

Boardroom coup claims Severfield-Rowen chief

Shares plunge as engineering group issues fresh profit warning

Jan 23, 2013

Bosch adds to European industry cost cuts

German barometer of the sector pledges to rein in spending

Jan 23, 2013

Industrial caution knocks Siemens profits

One-off charges prompt decline in engineering group’s earnings

Jan 22, 2013

Company warns full-year sales target ‘not be easy’ to hit

From MANAGEMENT Jan 22, 2013

Technology drives upmarket rental boom

The web is shaping a new economy in which owning things is passé

From LEX Jan 22, 2013

Alstom: transports of delight

Orders look encouraging but margins are the worry

Jan 22, 2013

Meggitt arm linked to Dreamliner probe

Securaplane produces battery chargers for Boeing 787

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