Spanish car manufacture SEAT has launched a pilot project to produce vehicle trim from Oryzite - a material made from rice husks - as an alternative to using traditional plastics.

UK-based Business Moves Group (BMG) has appointed Stuart Thorley as regional head of sales.

Business group Logistics UK is warning of the potential economic impact which a No Deal Brexit could have on the fortunes of UK PLC. In a letter to the Sunday Times published on 25 October, 2020 David Wells, the organisation’s CEO, highlighted that a No Deal exit from the EU could have a significant effect on the price of all imported goods and could drive inflation up as a result.

FIDI has made the decision to cancel its planned conference in Osaka in April 2021. The event had previously been planned for April 2020 but was postponed for 12 months because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

JK Moving Services in Washington, DC has appointed furniture experts Mark Dineen and Alyson Nash to its commercial business division to expand and enhance the company’s furniture and workplace installation service.

Make sure you join around 800 of your industry colleagues this week, 21 – 23 October, in what will be the industry’s biggest event of 2020.

High Relocation Worldwide Inc in Korea has donated furniture worth 20,000 US dollars to the Salvation Army Korea Territory Charities.

SGRS Move Management has announced two new appointees to its team in Geneva.

The Hyundai Motor Company has delivered the first seven of 50 XCIENT Hydrogen Fuel Cell, heavy-duty trucks due to be handed over to customers in Switzerland later this year.

On 8 October, the UK government published its updated Border Operating Model which sets out how border controls will work and what companies need to do to move goods to and from the EU after the transition period ends on 31 December, 2020.

The Japanese have a most instructive axiom which states the following: You have one mouth and two ears; speak once, listen twice!

Erika Venturini has recently become a shareholder of Atlantis in Rio de Janeiro alongside the company’s CEO and President Karl Rafael Wollny.

When Darren French was made redundant after 35 years in the moving industry due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he began to wonder if he would ever go back to work again.

​Voxme and Moveware have come together to develop an interface that allows users of Moveware to use the Voxme Estimator app for pre-move surveys.

Toyota has announced that it is working with partners in North America and Japan to extend its research and development of hydrogen-fuelled transport beyond cars to heavy-duty trucks and trains.

The RHA has estimated that UK haulage operators have slashed NOx emissions from trucks by at least 59% in only six years.

Inspecting and maintaining vehicles and trailers effectively in today’s increasingly technological world is becoming more challenging for commercial vehicle engineers. To help those responsible for the maintenance of fleets of all sizes, Logistics UK will be holding its first virtual Fleet Engineer Conference on 21 October, 2020.

Charge4Europe, the joint venture of DKV Mobility and innogy eMobility Solutions, has activated its 100,000th charging point.

In September the JK Community Farm, a 150-acre farm in Purcellville, Virginia that grows crops and livestock and donates them to non-profit making organisations to alleviate hunger, has supplemented its distance learning by providing a field trip programme. Groups will be able to take self-guided tours with tailored programming tied to Virginia Standards of Learning to teach about farming and nutrition.