Companies participating will have the opportunity to meet 1,000 Chicagoland transportation students at March career fair. The Collision Repair Education Foundation (CREF) will host a night of golf and networking at 6 p.m. on Thursday, November 17 at TopGolf in Schaumburg, Ill. to support high school and college collision programs and students around the country […]
Ritchie Bros to Acquire IAA
Acquisition combines complementary businesses with vision to create a next-generation global marketplace for commercial assets and vehicles. Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Incorporated (NYSE:RBA) (TSE: RBA) and IAA, Inc. (NYSE: IAA), announced an agreement for Ritchie Bros. to acquire IAA in a stock and cash transaction valued at approximately $7.3 billion including the assumption of $1.0 billion […]
Jeff Silver, Former I-CAR Leader and Shop Owner, Passes Away
Silver was chief staff executive at non-profit training organization for 11 years. Was driving force behind establishment of Collision Repair Education Foundation. The Inter-Industry Conference on Auto Collision Repair (I-CAR) announced on Friday that Jeff Silver, who served as the chief staff executive of the non-profit training organization from 1985 to 1996 has passed away […]
Crash Champions Acquires Collision Repair Center in Schaumburg, Illinois
Crash Champions, LLC today announced it has acquired Nationwide Auto Body, a single location collision repair center located at 665 W. Wise Rd, in Schaumburg, Ill. The acquisition continues Crash Champions’ strategic national growth strategy, now with more than 50 locations in Illinois “The Crash Champions family continues to grow nationwide, but the Chicagoland area […]
I-CAR Celebrates Grand Opening of Chicago Technical Center
The Inter-Industry Conference on Auto Collision Repair (I-CAR), marked the official opening of its new Chicago Technical Center (CTC) yesterday “I-CAR’s mission is to deliver increasingly accessible, on-demand and relevant education, knowledge, services and solutions for the collision repair inter-industry, and our new technical center in metro Chicago serves as another beacon of progress and […]
SCRS Announces KECO Donation to Collision Repair Schools in Montana and Illinois
During its April 2022 Open Board Meeting, the Society of Collision Repair Specialists (SCRS) announced a collaboration with KECO Body Repair Products to gift a tool and training package to one collision industry educational institution per quarter. Schools are nominated by SCRS Affiliate Associations. The affiliates were encouraged to nominate schools in their market that […]
Service King Opens Collision Repair Center in Chicago
Service King Collision announced the opening of a new collision repair center at 2738 West Fulton St. in Chicago, Ill. Located just east of Garfield Park, the 22,000-square-foot collision repair center is Service King’s 35th facility in Illinois. “We’re proud to introduce our industry-leading auto repair services to Chicago and its surrounding communities,” said Service […]
Volvo Trucks Academy Opens New Illinois Facility to Better Serve Electric Truck Training
Volvo Trucks North America announced today that the Volvo Trucks Academy opened a new facility in Tinley Park, Illinois, to expand access to battery-electric truck training in the central U.S. The new 14,865-square-foot facility is larger and more modern than the previous Illinois training facility, enabling Volvo Trucks to provide more robust, hands-on learning opportunities […]
IAA Expands Illinois and Iowa Branches
IAA, Inc. (NYSE: IAA) announced the expansion of branches in Iowa and Illinois. Capacity has doubled at the IAA Des Moines (Iowa) branch and IAA St. Louis (Ill.) has increased capacity by approximately 30%. The expansions will help to meet increased demand in the growing Midwestern market. “The branch expansions in Illinois and Iowa will […]
I-CAR Provides Update on Chicago Technical Center Construction
As construction of the 48,000 sq. ft. Chicago Technical Center (CTC) in Vernon Hills moves forward, another tangible symbol of I-CAR’s 43-year-old mission is unfolding for the collision repair inter-industry, explained I-CAR CEO & President John Van Alstyne. “I-CAR’s mission is to deliver increasingly accessible, on-demand and relevant education, knowledge, services and solutions for the […]
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