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Stanners to demonstrate at LKQ event
- 28/10/2019
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Stanners Equipment plans to demonstrate its new hand-held UV LED lamp at LKQ’s bodyshop technical and training event in Milton Keynes on 30 October. Stanners has introduced the new UV LED lamp in response to the increasing number of fast track repairs and smaller size refinish jobs which use UV paint systems [...] -
LKQ merges Bulgarian subsidiary
- 15/10/2019
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
LKQ Corporation announced it has merged its subsidiary Auto Kelly Bulgaria EOOD with Elit Kar OOD, creating one of Bulgaria's leading distributors of automotive spare parts. LKQ now owns a 20% equity interest in the combined business, which will continue to operate under both the Elit Car Group and Auto Kelly [...] -
LKQ Coatings secures precious Jem
- 16/07/2019
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
LKQ Coatings has announced that Jeremy Seaman has been appointed as commercial transport, light industrial coatings and rail manager. Jem has been in the industry for 34 years after starting his career as a paint sprayer for a Ford main dealer. He said, 'I’m excited to be starting this new chapter with LKQ [...] -
LKQ confirms Sukhpal departure
- 02/01/2019
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
LKQ Corporation has announced Sukhpal Singh Ahluwalia has resigned from his positions as a director of LKQ Corporation and as executive chairman of its Euro Car Parts (ECP) subsidiary in the United Kingdom, effective today. This follows the announcement that Martin Gray has also left the company. Sukhpal [...] -
LKQ secures exclusive Ridgeway rights
- 01/10/2018
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
LKQ Coatings and Ridgeway Technologies have announced that LKQ has secured the exclusive rights to market and distribute Ridgeway's Body Damage Quote system to the UK and Ireland bodyshop sector. Body Damage Quote (BDQ) is the online estimating calculator for non-structural body damage, which allows users to draw [...] -
Motofix strengthens LKQ partnership
- 28/10/2016
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
The Motofix Group has appointed LKQ Coatings as sole distributor for PPG paint products, paint dry-goods and consumables. LKQ Coatings is a division of the Euro Car Parts Group while Motofix is one of the UK’s leading independent vehicle accident repair and bodyshop groups. Richard Tutt, Motofix Group’s [...] -
LKQ signs agreement with John Roberts
- 11/03/2016
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Vehicle paint, panels and parts supplier LKQ Coatings has signed a sub-stockist agreement with John Roberts of Indian Queens, Cornwall. The move follows the opening of the joint Euro Car Parts and LKQ Collision Centre hub at Saltash, in August 2015, and the more recent relocation of LKQ Coating’s Bugle [...] -
LKQ announces third quarter results
- 02/11/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
LKQ is confident at the potential for more non-new OEM parts, particularly in Europe, the collision parts provider told investors in a conference call Thursday, following the release of its quarterly results. It also described trends driving the parts on the North American continent and discussed its performance [...] -
Ford and LKQ renew patent licence
- 10/04/2015
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
LKQ Corporation and Ford Global Technologies have renewed their design patent license agreement, which was first entered into in April 2009. The license agreement grants LKQ the exclusive right to distribute aftermarket replicas of Ford automotive parts covered by US design patents. The renewal is on substantially [...] -
Driverless cars concern for LKQ
- 09/03/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Three US insurers have noted driverless vehicles as a possible financial threat, whilst LKQ fears a decline in ‘the number and severity of accidents’, according to The Guardian. Three insurance companies as well as parts manufacturer, LKQ, mentioned driverless cars in their annual reports to the Securities and [...]