Several 'Firsts' Among 2015 SPE Automotive Innovation Awards

摘要

Spanning nine categories, the winners of the SPE Automotive Division's 2015 Blue Ribbon Automotive Innovation Awards (which this editor helped judge) represent a number of "firsts" in metal replacement and in replacing earlier plastic solutions with more capable ones. Thermoplastics played a lead role in five of the awards, which have one other thing in common—they're all colored black. With one exception, these are functional, rather than appearance, parts.