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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedTRW sets up winter test site in China.(TRW Automotive Inc.)(Brief article)
Automotive News Europe, April, 2006 by Webb, Alysha
Byline: Alysha Webb
As automakers and suppliers increasingly use Chinese engineers to develop global products, being able to test those products in China is crucial to keeping costs down. TRW Automotive knows that.
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Heihe, a cold city of about 150,000 people on the Sino-Russian border in northern China, is the site of TRW's latest winter proving grounds for brake slip and stability-control testing. "It is more than 50 percent less expensive than Sweden, North America or New Zealand," says Kevin Elgood, engineering director of TRW Automotive Asia Pacific's r&d ...
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