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TRUCKMAKERS' NEWS * USA
* I - Navistar eyes new site for world headquarters
Warrenville,ILL,USA -Truck News (CAN) -5 March 2010: -- Navistar has proposed building a new world headquarters in Lisle, Ill., which would include a "customer showcase" for global clients... The $100-million project would also generate and preserve some 7,000 jobs, Navistar claims. It is now awaiting approval from the Village of Lisle. Navistar also wants to take ownership of a ring road surrounding the site... Other features would include a "world class research and development center" containing six R&D cells, one-third of which would focus on hybrid vehicle development... Navistar would also work on its military vehicle designs at the new location...
* II - Navistar-Caterpillar Venture to Sell Trucks in Australia
Warrenville,ILL,USA -Transport Topics -8 March 2010: -- Navistar International Corp. said its joint venture to build commercial trucks with Caterpillar Inc. will begin selling vehicles in Australia by the middle of this year... The joint-venture, under the name NC2 Global LLC, based in Lisle, Ill., will announce product details and dealer arrangements next week, Navistar said in a statement Monday... Caterpillar, which used to make diesel truck engines, said in 2008 it was pulling out of the North American Class 8 truck engine market except for its partnership with Navistar...
* III - Navistar, GE Set Financing Plan. Venture Will Finance U.S. Trucks, Buses
Warrenville,ILL,USA -Transport Topics -9 March 2010: -- Navistar International Corp. said Tuesday it is expanding its financing relationship with GE Capital, under which GE will become Navistar’s preferred financing provider for Navistar’s U.S. trucks and school buses... The agreement takes effect immediately under the name Navistar Capital, with full implementation in 90 days, the companies said. GE Capital has provided dealer financing to Navistar in Canada since 1986...
* IV - Navistar's last-ditch SCR challenge
Warrenville,ILL,USA -Chinatrucks (China) -Mar.09, 2010: -- Truck maker Navistar's loudly proclaimed objections to selective catalytic reduction (SCR) technologies to control oxides of nitrogen (NOx) diesel emissions look like going down to the wire - the wire in this instance being the January 1 2010 deadline for new trucks and buses in the US to comply with tougher emission limits... The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has asked a federal appeals court to delay, for 60 days, proceedings instigated by Navistar requiring the agency to 'review and reconsider' its 2009 guidance on the use of SCR for NOx reduction. Earlier this year the manufacturer sued the agency, alleging that it did not follow the proper rule-making procedures in issuing SCR guidance... For several years SCR, despite its widespread adoption in Europe, was frowned on by the EPA. This was largely because of perceived problems of enforcement, in ensuring the replenishment of the system's additional consumable: the urea-water solution needed to activate the SCR catalyst. The reductant, already familiar in Europe under the name AdBlue, is now being referred to in North America as diesel exhaust fluid (DEF). There was an added concern that cheap sub-standard DEF, typically (and literally) watered down, would find its way on to the market. Establishing coast-to-coast availability of approved-quality fluid was regarded by the EPA as a major obstacle...
* V - Navistar’s 1Q Profit Declines
Warrenville,ILL,USA -Transport Topics -10 March 2010: -- Navistar International Corp. said its first-quarter profit fell to $17 million, or 23 cents per share, from $234 million, or $3.27, a year ago... Revenue for the fiscal quarter ended Jan. 31 slipped to $2.81 billion from $2.97 billion in the same period last year, the company said late Tuesday... Navistar reiterated its forecast that its earnings for the fiscal year ending Oct. 31 will be $127 million and $163 million, or $1.75 to $2.25 per share... It said that in the fiscal quarter it positioned for tighter 2010 Environmental Protection Agency emission rules, with the exhaust gas recirculation, or EGR, technology being used in its MaxxForce engines...
* SAF-Holland introduces new vocational suspension
Muskegon,MICH,USA -Truck News (CAN) -4 March 2010: -- SAF-Holland has introduced a Neway ADZ Series drive axle air-ride suspension for vocational trucks it claims is 220 lbs lighter and 54% more durable than its predecessor... The new suspension also boasts 27% less rolling resistance, the company says, and fewer components require less maintenance... The ADZ Series is designed for vocational trucks and tractors, including applications such as mixer, construction, logging, mining, oilfield, refuse and heavy-haul. The suspension is available in 23,000- and 26,000-lb capacities and can be configured for single, tandem or tridem axle applications... The new suspension features a one-piece integral lower module, which the company claims is the industry's first one-piece assembly that includes cast equalizing beams permanently assembled to the transverse beam with no fasteners...
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