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A 12 page catalogue featuring new products and special offers is now available from Motor Factors and Tech’n’Tool stockists nationwide. The catalogue complements TnT’s other brochures, “Welding & Air Solutions”, “Diagnostics & Test Equipment”. All publications can be downloaded from www.techntools.ie or are available from your local TnT stockist. TnT Solutions offers new products and

Trico has won a ‘Commended’ award in the Auto Express Product Awards 2017, as well as a 4-star rating in the Auto Express wiper blades test in the August 2017 issue. Auto Express reported: “A very impressive debut for Trico’s Exact Fit. The blade performs exactly as the name suggests – it was the easiest

DT Spare Parts’ new catalogue includes around 700 new products suitable Scania P-/G-/R-/T-series trucks. More than 2,  600 own products in the catalogue replace around 5 ,600 vehicle manufacturer references. The DT Spare Parts range offers more than 35, 000 spare parts with guaranteed quality. DT Spare Parts also offers parts the Scania 4-series as well as

The parent company of Mercedes-Benz trucks, Daimler, believes that non-road applications could be the way forward in refining autonomous driving technology. New, simplified versions of current driverless technology could make it easier to gain public acceptance, says the company, which is planning to demonstrate its capabilities by introducing self-driving snow plough and snow blowing trucks at German airports by

Members of the world’s leading car sharing network, Zipcar, will have the opportunity to drive an alternatively-fuelled Volkswagen Transporter van, as Zipcar and the manufacturer embark on a year-long pilot of petrol models in London. As in Ireland, the van market is currently dominated by diesel, and research in the UK is showing that van

Leading global OE manufacturer and aftermarket supplier of brake friction products Lumag, has announced the latest range additions to its own brand of brake pads, Breck. This latest extension of the Breck range – including additions for both passenger cars and commercial vehicles – sees the introduction of six new Breck brake pads for no

Solar energy tech firm, eNow, has demonstrated the efficiency of a new solar-powered refrigeration technique, which is has named ‘Rayfrigeration’. Replacing conventional diesel-powered Transport Refrigeration Units (TRUs), eNow’s zero-emission solarunit has undergone extensive testing over a five month period, during which it recorded significant improvements over conventional methods. During the test period nitrous oxide emissions were cut by

A new look, a new construction and a new family of four will be among the major talking points to emerge, when Gates introduces its latest generation of multi-ribbed belts for accessory belt drive systems. Stronger associations with the Gates OE product range will be prominent when the new Micro-V® range is introduced throughout the

A range of additional new body styles and derivatives have joined the new Volkswagen Crafter line-up, helping complete the brand’s newest model range. Among the new models are panel vans with VW’s 4MOTION all-wheel drive, rear-wheel drive powertrains and an eight-speed automatic gearbox. Critically, the expansion of the range allows for Volkswagen to compete in the up-to

Ignition specialist NGK has officially opened a new European distribution centre to supply customers in 44 countries. The world’s largest manufacturer of spark plugs, glow plugs and NTK Lambda sensors will supply original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and aftermarket customers from the new state-of-the-art facility at Duisburg in Germany. The new centre – which complements NGK’

Global OE friction manufacturer, TMD Friction, has put the quality and performance of its Textar brake disc coating to the test; comparing thickness, uniformity and corrosion against three competitor products as part of its benchmarking series. TMD Friction defined 20 measuring points, including four at the contact surface of the disc top hat, and four