Table of Contents
Executive Summary
1. History
- 1.1. Weight and Price Development of Steel, Aluminium and Plastic, taking
the Volkswagen Golf as an example
- 1.2. The Plastics Pyramid - the Ascendancy of Standard Plastics
- 1.3. Significance of the Automobile Sector as Plastics Consumer in
Relationship to the Market as a Whole
2. Standards
- 2.1. Principal Plastics Materials and their Applications
- 2.2. Predatory Competition and the Consequences
- 2.3. Innovation - But How?
3. Trends
- 3.1. PA -> PET
- 3.2. Long Glass Fibre Materials: Chiefly PP and PA
- 3.3. Polyamides - the Response
- 3.4. Ray Cross-Linked Polyamides
- 3.5. Substitution of Metal by Plastics
- 3.6. PC Glazing
- 3.7. Recent Developments of Plastics and Product Characteristics
- 3.8. PP - New Developments
- 3.9. Injection-Moulded Materials for Online Painting
- 3.10. New Blends for Vehicle Interiors: Competition for PC/ABS?
- 3.11. Fillers: Magnetite
- 3.12. Influence of a Modern Development Service Provider on the Use of
Plastics in the Automobile
- 3.13. Inspections for Their Own Sake - Is Every Inspection Really
Necessary?
Conclusion and Future Prospects
Glossary
Company Profiles
- AKRO - PLASTIC
- BASF
- Bayer MaterialScience
- Borealis
- Dow Chemical
- DuPont
- INEOS
- Lanxess
- SABIC Innovative Plastics
- TechnoCompound
Interviews and Opinions
- Leander Bergmann Marketing Manager, AKRO-PLASTIC GmbH
- Dr. Frank Eisentrager Application Product Development, INEOS ABS (Spain), S.L.
- Uwe Ruster Organic Materials Polymers, Adam Opel GmbH
- Volkhard Krause Vice President Automotive Glazing, Bayer MaterialScience AG
- Bernhard Scheuermann Managing Director, German Kunststofftechnik GmbH
- Joerg Schnorr Applications Engineering Automotive Interior/Exterior, BASF AG
- Dieter Voss Managing Director, TechnoCompound GmbH
- Dr. Eckhard Wenz Head of Bus. Dev. and Bus. Support, Bayer MaterialScience AG
- Jurgen Wiemann Marketing Manager, B&W Fahrzeugentwicklung GmbH
- Dr. Anton Wolf Head of Predevelopment, WOCO Company Group
- Franz Zangerl Manager of Marketing & Development, Borealis AG
- Ralf Zimnol Head of Application Development SCP, LANXESS Deutschland GmbH
TABLES
- Table 1: Weight and Price Development of Steel, Aluminium and Plastic,
taking the Volkswagen Golf as an example
- Table 2: Glossary
FIGURES
- Figure 1: Projection of breakdown of plastics use in the nineties
- Figure 2: Actual Breakdown of Plastics Use
- Figure 3: Worldwide consumption of Plastics Materials, 2007
- Figure 4: Plastics consumption, by sector in Western Europe and Central
Europe
|
Related Report
|
View Cart
