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LAS VEGAS NOV. 4, 2025
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Berryman Exemplifies a Century of Commitment A/C Quickcaps and the Future to Innovation, Family & Uncompromising Quality of Automotive A/C Service AAPEX BOOTH #A1825
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Berryman Products, a family-owned manufacturer of automotive chemicals, commemorates over a century of evolving, innovating and adapting while staying true to its roots. Few companies can claim such longevity, and even fewer can say they've done it while maintaining the same values that built them in the first place. The automotive industry changed over the century, but Berryman Products held on to its steadfast presence and mission of providing high-quality fuel additives, cleaners, degreasers, lubricants and maintenance solutions. The
By Frank Petrosino, Founder and Inventor, A/C Quickcaps Automotive service has evolved rapidly over the past few decades, yet one stubborn problem has persisted: Leaky Schrader valves. Even with today’s advanced diagnostic tools and A/C repair technology, Schrader valves continue to leak, wasting time, money and refrigerant, and forcing costly comebacks for shops while frustrating customers. The environmental impact is significant too, as escaping refrigerant contributes to greenhouse gas emissions and environmental harm. That’s where A/C Quickcaps changes everything.
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50 Years of Disc Brakes Australia: From a Sydney Workshop to the World Stage SEMA BOOTH #23711
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Continental Rolls Out aContact Tires for Autonomous Vehicles
In 1973, inside a small Sydney workshop, a frustrated Holden owner looking for a replacement brake rotor unknowingly began a lasting legacy. The father-and-son workshop team accepted the challenge, machining a custom rotor by hand. By 1975, that prototype had led to a business, and Disc Brakes Australia officially began trading. What started as a humble family operation soon grew into a symbol of Australian ingenuity, built on a simple belief: If the product doesn’t exist, Disc Brakes Australia will engineer it. The innovation has always driven DBA forward. In 2000, the company introduced
Continental has rolled out an original equipment tire line for use on driverless vehicles. The Continental aContact tires for autonomous vehicles combine specially developed tire technologies to meet the varying requirements and areas of application of autonomous fleets. The tires are well suited to robotaxis, shuttle vehicles, autonomous delivery services and, in the future, self-driving private cars. Continental’s aContact tires will soon be hitting public roads in U.S. cities such as Las Vegas and San Francisco.
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