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Ton Buechner (left) has resigned as CEO of AkzoNobel, citing health reasons. Thierry Vanlancker (right), leader of the company’s chemical division, will take his place as part of “emergency contingency planning.”

Tuesday Ticker: Ton Buechner steps down as CEO of AkzoNobel

The whole crew standing outside the BMW Performance Centre. From left to right: Alex Dugas from Media Matters, Inc. David Cross and Robin Popow from Vancouver Community College. Raymond Bourgeois from Allstate Insurance. Shane Roset from Saskatchewan Polytechnic. Dan and Jeff Doot from BMW North America. Brigitte Pesant from AIA Canada. Sid Petrisor from SGI. Gary Lin from BMW Canada. John Norris from CIIA. Randy Sandhu from BCIT. Mike Kenelly from Fanshawe College.

BMW Conference hosts BMW/MINI Certified Collision Repair Workshop

Sylvain Séguin named Vehicle Refinishes Canadian Country Manager at AkzoNobel

The back of the 3M DEMO trailer features a fully functional paint booth. Other parts of the DEMO trailer offer similar functions in regards to different tools, allowing repairers to try out equipment in real applications.

3M’s DEMO trailer to host Chip Foose at NACE Automechanika

Audi officially launched the 2018 A8 at a special event in Barcelona, Spain. According to the company, it is the world’s first commercially available level 3 autonomous vehicle.

The Autonomous Report: Audi’s A8 is world’s first level 3 AV

A truck carrying thousands of pounds of hagfish stopped short in Oregon, spilling 13 containers of live, very slimy fish. Autobody staff working on the car show here found a live hagfish still swimming around in some water trapped in the bumper.

Friday Fun: Hagfish on the highway lead to disgusting accident

Carrossier ProColor Sainte-Julienne is now certified Clé Verte Platinum. Clé Verte is a voluntary environmental certification program providing automotive service centres with the opportunity to obtain recognition for the environmental methods they employ.

Carrossier ProColor Sainte-Julienne obtains Clé Verte Platinum certification

Pictured is CSN Collision Centre’s newest location: CSN Gan Chev, located in Gananoque, Ontario. “For me, being the owner of CSN Gan Chev means more than just running a collision centre,” says owner Jamie Hall. “I am carrying on my father’s business, his hard work and ambition.”

CSN Gan Chev joins CSN Collision Centres

This chart details what percentage of vehicles in respondents' facilities have sustained damage in more than one location.

Survey: Favourite repairs and most common types of vehicle damage

One of Lordco Parts’ facilities in Cache Creek, British Columbia. Lordco has put forth a $25,000 contribution to the Canadian Red Cross and another $10,000 to the Emergency Operations Centre.

Lordco Parts offers support during BC fires

An unsuspecting bystander rescues a car from a rogue shopping cart. Fix Auto conducted this social experiment to test how people would react to a shopping cart speeding towards a vehicle.

Fix Auto lets shopping carts go rogue to test how humans react to potential vehicle damage

Tuesday Ticker: Disruption continues to impact retail auto parts stores

The first International Night Reception at Automechanika Chicago in 2015. This year's reception at NACE Automechnika promises to bring together automotive professionals from around the world.

International Night Reception at NACE Automechanika to offer global networking opportunities

A representation of how Cortica's AI sees the world. Cars are in green, pedestrians in red. Cortica's system takes in all the data from the sensors, processes the images, clusters them and tags them with data that has already been defined.

The Autonomous Report: How self-driving cars see the world

As of late, Ken Friesen, owner of Concours Collision has turned his attention to the next big thing: getting certified.

Concours Collision Centres gets certified

A road into Cache Creek, BC. A number of BC communities have been placed under evacuation orders due to the fires raging in the province. Photo by twitchlouise of Instagram.

Friday Fun: A ‘wild ride’ to escape BC’s forest fires; bodyshop employee embezzles half a million

A few photos from Enterprise Rent-A-Car's 22nd annual golf tournament in support of the Women in Insurance Cancer Crusade. Check out the gallery below for more!

Enterprise hosts 22nd annual charity golf tournament

Vandemon impressed the crowd with how to create some basic airbrush designs, carefully detailing his every step along the way.

Steve Vandemon teaches airbrush basics at Collision 360 clinic

Jean-Francois Gargya, Director General CarrXpert Quebec says that "Corporation CarrXpert is very proud of the progress CarrXpert NA has made over the last year."

CarrXpert collision network continues cross Canada expansion

Larry Miller, Vice President of Business Development and Operations for VeriFacts Canada. The company has recently begun offering its services to the Canadian market.

VeriFacts Automotive expands to Canada

The number of survey respondents who attended a college program for autobody repair isn’t surprising. What may surprise some people are the number of survey respondents who have education in non-technical areas and business degrees.

Survey: Majority of respondents believe a non-technical education is valuable

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