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Honda's new SUV sports rugged TPO flooring.(new Honda Element SUV has thermoplastic flooring)
Plastics News, December, 2002
Byline: Rhoda Miel Note to the bean counters at American Honda Motor Co. Inc.: That mountain bike acquired for the Ohio office was a legitimate business expense. Same with the snowboard and surfboard. After all, the materials engineers assigned to develop a different kind of flooring system for the new Honda Element sport utility vehicle could not give the thermoplastics a real-world workout without the real cargo it was expected to handle.
The result of those hours of dragging, toting and hauling everything from television sets to hockey bags is all over the final vehicle - now hitting North American showrooms - and provides a new design palette for the automaker. ``It was so different from a carpet [flooring],'' said Mary Dovell, a materials...
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