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VW Company Limited designs and manufactures stretcher trolleys that meet the needs and requirements of all their users. In 2003, we identified the need for a fully CEN compliant stretcher trolley within the UK. After considerable market research, it was agreed to design an all-new stretcher trolley, taking into account the requirements of all the relevant CEN & BSI standards, and the desires of the users. As part of the design brief, the ability to manoeuvre within confined spaces and passenger lifts was included, such that the stretcher trolley could be converted to wheelchair format. A single piece ambulance fixing kit was a pre-requisite; however the greatest design challenge proved to be meeting the maximum stretcher trolley weight parameter of 45kg, exclusive of mattress and belts. A completely new stretcher trolley design was developed, known as the MedAssist that utilises a fulcrum, as opposed to a scissor-lift arrangement; thereby allowing for a much shorter wheelbase, facilitating the wheelchair configuration and meeting all relevant standards and user requirements. We intend to continue to expand our product range with the Universal MedAssist stretcher trolley, a universal locking device and other improved medical equipment products. VW Company Limited founded in 1919, is wholly owned by the Newship Group, a long established privately owned British manufacturing group with assets of over 30 million and diverse interests both in the UK and Europe.
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NAICS Code Automobile Manufacturing: 336111
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German state digs in amid 'VW law' dispute
- 2008-06-05
FRANKFURT AFP — Lower Saxony stuck to its guns Thursday after the European Commission launched legal action against Germany over a new "Volkswagen law" that retains the state's de facto veto over strategic decisions at Europe's biggest carmaker. The decision was "expected but regrettable," a statement quoted regional premier...
VW says will create 8,500 jobs this year
- 2008-03-16
BERLIN AFP — Germany's Volkswagen plans to create some 8,500 new jobs worldwide in 2008 after several lean years at the biggest European car maker, a company spokesman said Sunday. The spokesman confirmed remarks in the German press by human resources chief Horst Neumann, who said half of the...
Volkswagen sales up 7.9 pct in first quarter
- 2007-04-17
WOLFSBURG, Germany AFP — German auto giant Volkswagen said Tuesday that it sold a total 1.47 million cars worldwide in the first three months of the current year, 7.9 percent more than in the same period a year earlier. A dent in sales in the car maker's home German...
The big-car problem - Germany's car industry.(Industry overview)
- 2007-02-24
Zetsche tests the Chinese market Germany produces some of the fastest and most luxurious cars in the world, but is that yesterday's game? EARLIER this month Germany's carmakers were hit by new emission limits proposed by the European Commission. There were howls...
The big squeeze; European car firms.
- 2006-02-18
Is only just beginning for Europe's carmakers JUST as General Motors has long been an icon of American business, so Volkswagen is a symbol of the German industrial economy. Unfortunately, the comparisons do not stop there. Late last year, GM announced big job cuts....
Volkswagen chooses Wolfsburg for new SUV plant
- 2005-09-27
WOLFSBURG, Germany, AFP — Volkswagen, Europe's biggest car maker, said that its new compact sports utility vehicle, the Golf Marrakesh, would be built at its plant in Wolfsburg, north Germany. VW management had threatened to relocate production of the SUV to Portugal where unit costs were much cheaper, if...
German magazine says 30,000 VW jobs could go
- 2005-09-10
BERLIN AFP — Volkswagen VW will shed up to 30,000 jobs, mostly in Germany, as part of its cost-cutting plan, according to the German weekly auto magazine Automobilwoche in its Monday edition. Quoting an internal estimate, the magazine said "between 25,000 and 30,000 jobs will be in danger in...
Warning strikes continue at VW as wage talks resume
- 2004-11-01
FRANKFURT AFP — The powerful IG Metall labour union staged further warning strikes at car maker Volkswagen as deadlocked wage talks were set to enter their sixth round. Around 600 workers on the night shift downed tools at VW's factory in Brunswick, north Germany and IG Metall said it...
EC subsidies under scrutiny as capital directive amended. (plans for relaxation of Capital Adequacy Directive)
- 1997-06-01
The European Commission is currently considering a proposal which would amend the Capital Adequacy Directive, under which banks and investment companies must set aside a specified sum in order to protect themselves against the risk of their clients defaulting. This comes at the same time as tension is growing regarding...
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