The Automotive Management Institute (AMI) and Babcox Publications have honored Loren Estwick - owner of Loren's Collision Plus, LLC, in Foley, Minn. - as the recipient of the 2004 BodyShop Business magazine Scholarship. The award was presented at the General Session held during NACE by BodyShop BusinessPublisher Denise Lloyd.
Last week at the NACE Show in Las Vegas, Transtar Autobody Technologies introduced a new UV paint system for the collision repair industry. The new Ultra V product line is a breakthrough in fast cure time for spot repairs, improving productivity, according to the company.
The Allstate v. Abbott trial on Texas' new Insurer-Owned Repair shop law is scheduled to begin this Monday, September 20, at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division. On June 20, 2003, Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed into law Texas House Bill 1131, the Insurer-Owned...
Car glass repair and replacement firm Shield Autoglass will open 108 specialized outlets under the brand name 'Windshield Experts' by 2008 to have a pan India presence for tapping the burgeoning market, with an investment of $4.5 million.
The board of directors of Earl Scheib, Inc., today announced it has elected to terminate the Letter of Intent previously entered into on May 13, with Elden Holding Group, LLC, a private real estate investment company. Elden had proposed to acquire all of the company's issued and outstanding capital stock...
Exco Technologies Limited, which serves the die-cast, extrusion and automotive industries, has sold its paint lasing business to Emerald Graphics, a private North American automotive interior decorative supplier. The asset sale took effect Aug. 30.
ABRA Auto Body & Glass, a Minneapolis-based collision repair company, is celebrating 20 years in business. The company was started in June of 1984, when Rollie Benjamin, ABRA's president and CEO, opened ABRA's first repair center in Fridley, Minn., in an upscale, commercial development. After two decades, ABRA now operates...
FinishMaster, Inc., a national independent distributor of automotive paints, coatings and accessories to the automotive collision repair industry, has acquired the automotive paint division of Virginia Paint Co. (VPC).
Lord Corp., maker of Fusor Automotive Repair Adhesives metal and composite bonding solution for automotive body repair, is launching its training curriculum and product line in Latin America through its Latin American counterpart, Lord de Mexico.
The National Auto Body Council (NABC) recently donated $1,500 to the National Children's Medical Hospital during a meeting held in Washington, D.C.
