What does 2005 have in store?

摘要

The automotive market is a big bundle of trends,so let us consider them as we move around a vehicle.For exterior parts,this should be the year that long-fiber reinforced thermoplastics (LFT) parts break out in the U.S.car industry."The U.S.typically is three to five years behind Europe (in automotive design];2001 was the year that injection molded I.FTs really took off in Europe," notes Andy Hopkins,general manager of automotive solutions business at glass-fiber supplier Owens Corning (Toledo,OH).