Polymers in automotives:developments and applications

摘要

The automotive industry is on the verge of a revolution and the plastics industry is poised to play a major role in this revolution.Globally,new technology and partnerships are enabling improvements in safety,breakthroughs in comfort and increase in energy efficiency.These conflicting demands are lived up to by only one family- PLASTICS.With their unique combination of properties,they are the key to providing technological innovations with cost efficiency and sustainability.Plastic components provide design flexibility,cost and weight savings and the opportunity to integrate several components into a single module.Not surprisingly,there has been an enormous upsurge in the use of plastics in automotive applications.In the last 25 years,the integration of plastics has been a key to the automotive industry's ability to design high-performance vehicles with improved safety features and fuel economy.Lightweight plastics allow automotive designers and engineers the freedom to deliver innovative concepts cost effectively.