Carl Brabander named VP of Marketing for Fix Auto World
![Carl Brabander joined Fix Auto as VP of Marketing for Fix Auto Canada. He now occupies a similar position with the global organization.](https://www.collisionrepairmag.com/wp-content/smush-webp/2017/02/images_CarlBrabander_FixAutoWorld_LG.jpg.webp)
Montreal, Canada — February 12, 2017 — Carl Brabander has been appointed to the position of Vice President of Marketing for Fix Auto World. The announcement was made by David Lingham, Head of Business for Fix Auto World. Since his appointment in 2014 to the role of Vice President of Marketing for Fix Auto Canada, […]
Consolidated Dealers to hold paint profitability seminars
![Consolidated Dealers logo.](https://www.collisionrepairmag.com/wp-content/smush-webp/2017/02/images_ConsolidatedDealers_LOGO.jpg.webp)
Toronto, Ontario — February 12, 2017 — Consolidated Dealers Co-Op has announced it will hold Paint and Material Profitability Seminars in the Ottawa and Toronto areas. The seminars are presented by BASF, Consolidated Dealers and CCS. The course centers on how to analyze the factors that influence a collision centre’s profitability regarding paints and materials. […]
Hard data highlights the need for scanning
![Big Sky Collision, one of the McDonnell Group’s three shops in Montana. The company recently released the results of a study that highlights the need for scanning.](https://www.collisionrepairmag.com/wp-content/smush-webp/2017/02/images_BigSky_LG.jpg.webp)
Billings, Montana — February 12, 2017 — Nothing highlights the need for scanning like cold, hard data. Our US-based content partner, Repairer Driven News (RDN), reports on a repairer that gathered stats on ever repair order that came through his three shops “… to examine the necessity of pre- and post-repair scanning and whether the […]
The Autonomous Report: Canada lags, Israel jumps ahead and we may see a flying car by 2020
![A Velodyne LiDAR sensor on a vehicle at Blackberry QNX in Ottawa. QNX is one of the few companies in Canada working autonomous vehicle tech.](https://www.collisionrepairmag.com/wp-content/smush-webp/2017/02/images_AVReport_VelodyneSensor_LG.jpg.webp)
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — February 12, 2017 — Making news in the autonomous vehicle (AV) space this week is a report that Canada is “dead last” in the race towards driverless cars, a new algorithm that may allow AVs to merge seamless with human-controlled traffic, a discussion on how Israel is becoming a […]