Overview Of: Automotive Materials

Whether it is steel, aluminum, glass, plastic, magnesium , or something else, you’re going to find it in a car or truck and you’re going to find it here. Even wood. Really.

Automotive Materials

Reducing Mass and Cutting Costs with Steel
Gary S. Vasilash

For the past few years, it seems like steel has become the dominant material of choice for automotive applications.Sure, there are exceptions to this.

Automotive Materials

Steel: Reduces Noise. And Mass. And Cost.
Gary S. Vasilash

Although the material from Material Sciences Corp. is named for one of its properties, what it can deliver goes well beyond its quiet characteristic.

Automotive Materials

Clean Foam Composites

Málama’s foams are made with polyols that are derived from domestically grown plant oils like soy and castor.

Automotive Materials

Making a Knobless Center Console Controller

An innovative concept for vehicle interiors that replaces buttons, switches and knobs in the center console with a smooth injection molded surface has been developed and processed by Magna Exterior & Interior Systems and ENGEL.

Automotive Materials

BASF Makes More Metal Replacements
Gary S. Vasilash

BASF is addressing everything from the engine to seats with its polymer tech.

Toyota Makes Engine Investments

Gary S. Vasilash

Toyota is investing, to quote Dick Cheney, “big time” in engine production in the U.S.

Honda: Seeing Too Far?

Gary S. Vasilash

Theodore Levitt, in 1960, published a paper in the Harvard Business Review titled “Marketing Myopia.” Fundamental to the piece is the question, “What market are you in?” One of the famous examples he used is the railroad industry, which was in decline at that time as a mode of personal transportation, as people were taking other alternatives.

Making More Altimas in Smyrna

Gary S. Vasilash

The Nissan plant in Smyrna, Tennessee, opened in June, 1983.