Aim, Set, Fire: Feds invest $5 million in APMA’s Project Arrow
Windsor, Ontario — Project Arrow, the zero-emissions concept car initiative driven by the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association (APMA) is getting $5 million in federal funding. “This is a huge announcement; this is really ground-breaking,” Windsor-Tecumseh MP Irek Kusmierczyk said Wednesday in Windsor alongside the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) investment announcement. […]
PEOPLE ON THE MOVE
CAM LAVENDER | BASF CANADA | RETIRED Cam Lavender officially retired from the automotive aftermarket in mid-July after serving as the business development manager for the more than 23 years—though Lavender occupied a spectrum of roles at BASF Canada and in collision centres. He has completed Auto Body and Collision Damage Repairer Red Seal 310B. […]
Thank you – It’s all because of you
BY DARRYL SIMMONS Time sure flies when you’re having fun. Just in the blink of an eye, a fifth of a century blasted by. They say print is dead, but what you hold in your hands now just cannot be duplicated with pixels on screens. After working in the corporate business world for a decade […]
BMW GROUP CANADA BELIEVES CONGRATULATIONS ARE IN ORDER!
“BMW Group Canada wishes to congratulate Collision Repair Magazine for its 20th anniversary as a publication for the collision industry and, more recently, as an advocate for OE Certified Collision Repair. It’s hard to believe that this magazine is already in its 20th year of circulation. As a certified body technician, I have been reading […]
Heavy-Duty Discussions: HD Repair Forum releases event agenda
Cleveland, Ohio — Details on the medium and heavy-duty collision repair industry’s 2021 conference were released this week. Highlights of the two-day program include presentations from Daimler, Bendix, IMMI, 3M, and several other collision industry leaders. HD Repair Forum’s event coordinators announced last month that the fall event would co-locate with the American Trucking Association’s, Technology […]
Akzo Ace: CSN painter wins AkzoNobel Dave Smith Achievement Award
Toronto, Ontario — In the tradition of carrying on the legacy of the late Dave Smith, AkzoNobel has presented the Dave Smith Achievement Award to Dorien Lozeau of CSN Black Ace, in St. Paul, Alta. In observance of the second anniversary of Dave’s passing, AkzoNobel awarded the prize during the 2021 Skills Canada National Competition. […]