Launches ‘$25 for 25’ Donor Campaign The Collision Industry Foundation is marking its 25th anniversary with a new individual-giving campaign that asks 1,000 people across the industry to each contribute $25 in support of the foundation’s emergency relief work. The nonprofit announced the “$25 for 25” campaign July 21. CIF distributes donations to collision repair […]
AkzoNobel Reports Refinish Return to Growth in Second Quarter as Axalta Merger Vote Nears
AkzoNobel N.V. (AMS: AKZA; OTCMKTS: AKZOY) reported second-quarter 2026 adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) of €398 million ($453.7 million) on July 22, up 1% as reported and 5% at comparable scope and constant currencies, as the coatings supplier delivered its fifth consecutive quarter of year-over-year margin expansion. Adjusted EBITDA margin rose […]
CCC Adds Autel to Diagnostics Network
CCC Intelligent Solutions Inc. has added Autel to the CCC Diagnostics Network, giving collision repair facilities that use the diagnostic tool maker’s services the ability to have scan documentation flow automatically into their CCC ONE workfiles. Diagnostic scans and ADAS calibrations have become routine steps in modern collision repairs, and the records they generate increasingly […]
Sedgwick Launches Heavy Equipment Direct Repair Program for Carriers
Sedgwick has launched a direct repair program for heavy equipment, giving insurance carriers a single-provider network to manage repairs of 18-wheelers, refrigerated trucks and other commercial vehicles nationwide. The program extends to commercial trucking the managed-repair model Sedgwick has built on the personal-auto side, where carriers route claims to a contracted network of collision repair […]
Caliber Food Drive Delivers Record 9.3 Million Meals in 15th Year
Caliber said its 15th annual Restoring You Food Drive provided 9.3 million meals to 223 food banks across the country, the largest total in the program’s history and a result that surpassed the company’s goal of 8.5 million meals. The campaign ran April 13 through May 29. The food drive is the community-facing arm of […]
California Bureau of Automotive Repair Advisory Group to Weigh Airbag Sourcing Rule and Predatory-Towing Case July 30
Agenda pairs a pending airbag-parts regulation and a windshield calibration-disclosure bill with an enforcement case study built on a bandit-towing scheme. The California Bureau of Automotive Repair will convene its Advisory Group on July 30 for a session that puts several regulatory, legislative and enforcement matters affecting collision repair facilities before the panel, including a […]
ASA Relaunches NACE/CARS as One-Day Interactive Event in San Antonio
The Automotive Service Association is relaunching its NACE and CARS events as a single, one-day gathering Sept. 29 at the Hilton Palacio del Rio in San Antonio, Texas, reviving a national event brand and rebuilding it around small-group problem-solving rather than a trade-show floor. The rebooted International Autobody Congress and Exposition and Congress of Automotive […]
ServiceUp Launches Agentic AI Platform to Automate Fleet Vehicle Repair
ServiceUp has launched an agentic repair platform that deploys artificial intelligence agents to automate the fleet vehicle repair process from intake and shop routing through estimate approval, invoice validation and real-time monitoring. The system covers collision, mechanical and preventive maintenance work for Class 1 through Class 8 vehicles. The platform inserts an automated coordination layer […]
Kemper Names Eric Kappler President of Property and Casualty
Kemper Corporation named Eric Kappler executive vice president and president of property and casualty, effective July 30, placing a two-decade veteran of the non-standard auto market atop its unified P&C organization. Kappler will lead the company’s specialty personal and commercial vehicle lines along with P&C claims operations. He reports to Stephen J. McAnena, who became […]
Distribution Solutions Group to Go Private in $35 Per Share Deal with LKCM Headwater
Distribution Solutions Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: DSGR) announced July 16 that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement under which newly formed entities controlled by LKCM Headwater Investments, LLC will acquire all outstanding shares of DSG common stock not already owned by LKCM Headwater and its affiliates for $35 per share in cash, taking the […]