Manufacturing Industry
Composites shift aim to hit moving auto industry target.
Plastics News, September, 2004 by Miel, Rhoda
Byline: Rhoda Miel Think of auto composites suppliers as being on an unending uphill climb. For every breakthrough in processing or sales that allows them to move forward, there are changes in requirements for painting or increased challenges from metal that send them back down. While Toyota Motor Corp.
provided a major win for composites by buying into sheet molding compound for the bed of its Tacoma pickup truck, an ongoing switch to powder-based paint primers is cutting suppliers' abilities to sell automakers on SMC for hoods, fenders and other body panels. While structural reinforced injection molding has won new life in the flooring system for DaimlerChrysler AG's minivans, General Motors Corp. backed off on offering the material as a pickup bed...
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