Global market review of vehicle body material trends - forecasts to 2016

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - Introduction

Chapter 2 - Body structure and materials

• Overview
• Steel
• Q&A with Corus
• About Corus
• Aluminium
• Q&A with Stadco
• About Stadco
• Plastics and composites
• Q&A with JSP
• Q&A with 3M
• Carbon fibre
• Organic materials
• Coatings

Chapter 3 - Market forecasts

• Aluminium
• Plastics

List of tables

• Table 1: Alternative materials: potential weight saving versus cost
• Table 2: Evaluation of a clutch pedal
• Table 3: Cost of CO2 saving
• Table 4: Examples of alternative materials to steel
• Table 5: Aluminium as a percentage of total kerb weight of a medium-sized passenger car in Western Europe, North America and Japan, 2005-2016 (%)
• Table 6: Plastics as a percentage of total kerb weight of a medium-sized passenger car in Western Europe, North America and Japan, 2005-2016 (%)