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| |  06 Dec 2006
The annual Corus Industry Forum has further opened the debate on some of the key challenges facing the automotive industry. Bringing together some of the industry’s most influential people, the forum focused on two of today’s hottest topics - safety and the environment.
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| |  01 Dec 2006
Dev O’Nion for the design concept “Apto Sapor” was awarded the ‘Best Vehicle Design’ accolade in the Corus sponsored private view of the Coventry University MA Automotive Design Show ‘ICONS’ held on Thursday 30 November 2006 at the Coventry Transport Museum.
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| |  23 Nov 2006
Following the launch earlier this year of its unique portable strain measurement system called PHAST™, Corus has announced the successful use of this new technology on-site at NedCar’s assembly plant in Born, the Netherlands. It is being used to help optimise final press shop tooling for the manufacture of the Mitsubishi Colt. Corus developed PHAST™ to help carmakers ensure reliable production quality of complex formed body panels during vehicle development and production processes.
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| |  15 Nov 2006
Corus, the international steel company, has developed ‘Fluxless Laser Brazing’, a new and robust process for joining steel to aluminium during automotive production line assembly. The new technique has been developed at the Corus RD&T centre in Holland, to support the automotive industry’s increasing use of multi-materials in new car design and manufacture, as a way of reducing weight and improving CO2 emissions.
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| |  27 Oct 2006
Corus, the international steel company, has invested significantly in its specialist service centre in Wednesfield UK, to enhance its press blanking line capability in order to meet the new challenges, expected ahead in the European Automotive Industry.
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| |  20 Oct 2006
Corus, the international steel company, has announced a contract to supply Volvo Trucks with precision-machined camshaft blanks for use in the manufacture of critical engine components.
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| |  03 Oct 2006
Corus, the international steel company, and DAF Trucks, one of Europe’s leading truck manufacturers, have collaborated to develop a unique computer simulation crash model which they believe will lead to safer future truck designs.
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| |  07 Aug 2006
Corus Corporate Relations Director, David Jackson, witnessed first-hand the effect of Corus’ contribution to the JCB DIESELMAX assault on the land speed record for diesel-powered cars. He spoke at length with Chief Engineer, Tim Leverton, about the steel tube Corus supplied to the DIESELMAX team.
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| |  28 Jul 2006
Corus is entering its eighth year as sponsor of Coventry University’s MA Automotive Design Show with one of the strongest judging panels to date.
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| |  21 Jul 2006
Corus, the international steel company, has been working closely with Ford to help the carmaker develop and implement the latest grades of high strength steels into several key applications on the new Galaxy model range.
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| |  31 May 2006
Automotive spring-grade wire rod from Corus is being used to manufacture transmission springs for the first time.
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| |  17 May 2006
Corus has developed a new and unique technology called In-Form™ that applies the latest computer aided engineering (CAE) simulation techniques to help optimise the set-up of automotive press shop processes. Following extensive trials, In-Form™ has demonstrated that it can help vehicle makers improve manufacturability and quality of complex stamped body panels thereby significantly reducing press shop set-up lead-times.
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| |  11 May 2006
A successful supply chain partnership between Corus and Wigpool Ltd, for the development and supply of high quality precision machined components, is helping Triumph, one of the world’s oldest and most famous names in motorcycles, stay ahead of competitors.
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| |  02 May 2006
Corus, the international metals company, is once again supporting some of Europe’s leading student race teams - the Universities of Birmingham, Delft and Warwick - in the 2006 International Formula Student programme.
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| |  29 Mar 2006
Corus, one of the world’s leading steel producers, has developed an integrated crash box bumper that it believes will offer vehicle and component manufactures both weight and cost savings compared to existing front end module systems.
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| |  27 Mar 2006
Corus customers have reported a massive 85 per cent reduction in instances of materials being damaged in transit. The improvement in delivery standards comes just six months after the opening of Corus’ world-class distribution centre for storing, handling and despatching its damage-critical grades of wire rod destined for automotive manufacturers around the world.
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| |  16 Mar 2006
Corus, the international steel company, is working closely with Smethwick Drop Forge (SDF), the UK’s leading forger of connecting rods for passenger and commercial vehicles, to help optimise the design and manufacture of existing con-rods
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| |  08 Feb 2006
Corus, the international steel company, has won the contract to supply its unique product, the Hyfo™ Tubular Blank, for the first hydroformed crash can to go into production in the European automotive market.
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| |  01 Feb 2006
A unique and portable strain measurement system called PHAST™, has been developed by Corus, the international steel company, to help carmakers ensure reliable production quality of complex formed body panels during the vehicle development and production process.
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