Manufacturing Industry
Lean, mean muscle machine; Plasan's venture to make carbon-fiber parts for sports cars.
Plastics News, April, 2007
Byline: Rhoda Miel An Israeli carbon-fiber molding company is turning its expertise in making military armor for trucks toward a different kind of muscle car. Plasan Sasa Ltd. purchased the automotive unit of Vermont Composites Inc., the maker of carbon-fiber fenders for General Motors Corp.'s Z06 Corvette, and plans to use the Bennington, Vt., company - now renamed Plasan USA - to support manufacturing of both sports cars and armored products.
"For us, it's a natural expansion,'' said Kobi Rasner, corporate business development director for Plasan Sasa of Kibbutz Sasa, Israel, during an April 16 interview at the Society of Automotive Engineers' 2007 World Congress in Detroit. Plasan Sasa opened in 1985, making carbon-fiber composite armor for military...
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