Automotive 
Sonderhoff presented a 40% flax fibre reinforced polyurethane at the FSK plastic foam industry association's symposium, held at Volkswagen in Wolfsburg, Germany, last year.
3 February 2012
Stephanie Baron and Gerard Liraut of Renault presented a paper at the 2011 VDI plastics in automotive conference on characterising new materials and coatings for clean and easy-to-maintain surfaces. They addressed issues of maintaining high gloss, avoiding dust attraction and ongoing concerns over visibility of scratches on through-coloured automotive interior mouldings.
3 February 2012
The use of unreinforced polypropylene from Schulman in water assist injection moulding technology (WIT) is enabling Turkish company Teklas Kaucuk to make ducts with integrated flexible bellow sections.
1 February 2012
The western Indian state of Gujarat is fast emerging as the next major auto hub. Lanxess AG is tapping into the market with local production, opening an engineering resins compounding plant in Jhagadia on 31 January.
1 February 2012
Lightweighting was the dominant theme at the IAA 2011 automotive industry fair in Frankfurt. European Plastics News reports on the various innovations in exteriors and interiors shown by OEMs and their suppliers
30 January 2012
Trelleborg is set to sell its French unit which makes rubber, plastic and foam components and systems for the light vehicles industry
26 January 2012
UK company Inrekor says its sandwich panel technology, in which JSP’s Arpro expanded polypropylene (EPP) forms the core and aluminium sheet provides the skin, is being used in Aston Martin Racing’s GT cars
25 January 2012
Despite improved net income for its latest quarter, supplier Johnson Controls saw a significant fall in its European profit margins - setting the stage for more supplier struggles on the continent and more jitters on Wall Street
24 January 2012
Automotive roof system supplier Webasto in Germany is now operating three injection moulding machines for polycarbonate glazing, and is planning to add more
24 January 2012
Faurecia, a major French supplier of seats, interiors, exhaust systems and exterior parts, is angling for a much bigger share of North American sales
24 January 2012
Interested in sedans? Ford Motor pulled the wraps off its new Fusion midsize car at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit
23 January 2012
BASF and Philips have achieved a breakthrough in the development of Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) technology that allows it to be integrated in car roofs
20 January 2012
India’s largest automotive air conditioning system maker Subros is foraying into additional plastic automotive parts
19 January 2012
France-based automotive parts manufacturer Faurecia has completed the construction of its second plastic car components plant in Gorzow Wielkopolski, Poland. Production at the new factory is expected to start in the first quarter of 2012, the company said in a statement
18 January 2012
Piano black surfaces have become widespread in cars. So how about textures, self-healing materials and larger 'XXL' format consoles? European Plastics News hears about new IMD developments at the Decorative Automotive Plastics conference
16 January 2012
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