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Luxury sports car manufacturer\u00a0Aston Martin\u00a0is recalling more than 5,000 cars after uncovering that\u00a0its throttle pedal arms\u00a0were made with\u00a0counterfeit materials from China<\/strong><\/a>. From Bloomberg Businessweek:<\/p>\n

The luxury sports cars\u2019 throttle pedals are assembled in Swindon, England, by a company known as Precision Varionic International, which in turn gets its parts from Fast Forward Tooling in Hong Kong. In this case, Fast Forward Tooling subcontracted the molding of pedal arms to Shenzhen Kexiang Mould Tool Co., which bought its allegedly \u201ccounterfeit material\u201d from Synthetic Plastic Raw Material Co. in the Chinese factory town of Dongguan. And apparently, James Bond\u2019s gadget man Q was not on hand to inspect quality.<\/p>\n

Aston Martin\u2019s \u201cengineering specification require pedal arms\u201d to be made from a specific plastic supplied by\u00a0DuPont\u00a0(DD). Some cunning folks at Synthetic Plastic Raw Material had in fact been allegedly shipping out materials \u201cin bags labeled as DuPont PA6,\u201d but those bags actually contained an inferior imitation plastic. [Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

FT reports that although no accidents have been ascribed to the glitches in the\u00a0accelerator pedals,\u00a0Aston Martin issued the recall out of safety concerns<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Aston Martin said it was recalling the cars because the pedal was not safe, though no accidents have been blamed on the fault.<\/p>\n

Shenzhen Kexiang Mould Tool used counterfeit DuPont plastic when manufacturing the pedal arm, the carmaker said, adding that it would shift production of the part back to the UK as a result.<\/p>\n

The plastic used in the manufacturing of the pedal was not of industrial quality and as such could break under force.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the accelerator pedal arm breaks, the engine will return to idle and the driver will be unable to maintain or increase engine speed, increasing the risk of a crash,\u201d the\u00a0US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration\u00a0said in a statement. [Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, 14 Chinese suspects have been arrested in Italy for selling counterfeit cashmere clothing that contained rat fur<\/strong><\/a>. More than a million garments have been seized by Italian authorities. BBC News reports:<\/p>\n

The Chinese-born suspects were arrested in the Italian cities of Livorno and Rome after a year-long investigation, and have been cautioned for fraud,\u00a0the Italian news agency ANSA reports.<\/p>\n

The clothes claiming to be made of cashmere contained a mixture of acrylic and viscose, as well as “fur from rats and other animals”, judicial sources say. Bogus merino wool, silk and pashmina garments were also seized. [Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Luxury sports car manufacturer\u00a0Aston Martin\u00a0is recalling more than 5,000 cars after uncovering that\u00a0its throttle pedal arms\u00a0were made with\u00a0counterfeit materials from China. From Bloomberg Businessweek: The luxury sports cars\u2019 throttle pedals are assembled in Swindon, England, by a company known as Precision Varionic International, which in turn gets its parts from Fast Forward Tooling in Hong […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1088,"featured_media":168655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116,2,14744,14745,14746,5],"tags":[958,15124,2726],"class_list":["post-168652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-economy","category-level-2-article","category-level-3-article","category-level-4-article","category-society","tag-fake-goods","tag-luxury-cars","tag-made-in-china","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\nAston Martin Car Has Chinese Supply-Chain Problems<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/aston-martin-car-chinese-supply-chain-problems\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Aston Martin Car Has Chinese Supply-Chain Problems\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Luxury sports car manufacturer\u00a0Aston Martin\u00a0is recalling more than 5,000 cars after uncovering that\u00a0its throttle pedal arms\u00a0were made with\u00a0counterfeit materials from China. 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