Material Trends: Global Sector Overview & Forecast

Table of Contents

• Pester analysis
• Companies

• Accuride Corporation
• Aichi Steel
• AK Steel
• Aleris
• Arconic Inc
• Asahi Kasei Plastics
• Autoneum
• BASF SE
• Benteler
• Biomer
• Bodine Aluminum
• Bridgestone
• CIE Automotive SA
• ContiTech
• Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc
• Covestro
• Dow Automotive Systems
• Dräxlmaier Group
• DuPont (E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company)
• Evonik
• Faurecia
• Fosun
• Freudenberg & Co. KG
• Gestamp Automocion
• Henkel
• Honeywell
• Hyundai Steel
• International Automotive Components
• JFE Steel Corporation
• Kobe Steel
• Lanxess
• LG Chem
• Magna International Inc.
• Infrastructure
• Merger and acquisition activity
• Martinrea
• Metaldyne
• Minda Corporation
• Mitsui Chemicals
• NanoSteel Company
• Novares
• Novelis
• NSG
• Oerlikon Balzers
• Posco
• PPG Industries
• Infrastructure
• Merger and acquisition activity
• Products
• PT Astra Otoparts
• SABIC
• Saint-Gobain
• Samvardhana Motherson Group
• Shiloh Industries
• Showa Denko
• Solvay
• Stadco
• Sumitomo Corporation
• Tata Steel
• Teijin
• Tenedora Nemak
• ThyssenKrupp AG
• Toray Industries
• Toyo Tire & Rubber
• Toyoda Gosei
• Trelleborg AB
• Trinseo
• Victrex
• Woodbridge Group
• Yokohama Rubber
• ZF
• Forecasts
• Aluminium
• Glass
• Iron
• Other materials
• Plastics
• Steel
• Materials
• Aluminium
• Applications
• Alcoa's MagnaForce
• Aluminium sheet from Kobe Steel
• Audi Space Frame
• Cadillac ATS
• Constellium’s aluminium crash management system
• Engine cooling
• Ford F-150 pickup
• GM's aluminium welding technology
• Heat shield from Federal-Mogul
• Honda's steel-aluminium jointing solution
• Novelis supplying aluminium sheet to General Motors
• Tesla Model S
• Turbocharger
• Carbon fibre
• Armoured vehicles
• Bentley's solutions
• BMW's solutions
• Body panels
• Carbon ceramic disc brakes
• Daimler's solutions
• Ford's solutions
• GM's solutions
• Coatings
• Colour trends
• BASF's research
• DuPont's research
• PPG's research
• Other
• Magnesium
• Roofs
• Seating
• Organic materials
• Acoustical foam
• Doors
• Ecological plastic in the Prius
• Engine parts
• Floor mats
• Ford's approach to using alternative materials
• Instrument panels
• Interiors
• Mercedes-Benz uses coconut matting, crushed olive stones and even sawdust
• Seating
• Tyres
• Other materials
• Alternative material to nylon 12 resin
• BASF's car seat cover
• ContiTech's double-sided timing belt
• Plastics and composites
• Bioplastic for vehicle interior parts
• Brake pedal
• Bumper market
• Charge air ducts
• Composite material door panels
• Composite plastic tailgate
• Door panels
• Engine cooling
• Environmentally friendly (‘green’) products
• Front-end modules
• Fuel system applications
• General Motors' 'smart materials' developments
• Glass fibre compounds
• Glazing
• Interior applications
• Ford and Coca-Cola develop vehicle interior fabric
• Resins
• Roof systems
• Sealing applications
• Material from Trelleborg
• Windshield sealing system for the Opel Astra GTC
• Seat belts
• Seats
• Spare wheel tray
• Spoiler
• Suspension system
• Tailgate
• Technology developments
• Transmission crossbeam
• Wheels
• Recycling
• Batteries
• Bumpers
• Glazing
• Interiors
• Motor oil
• Steel
• Tyres
• Continental's tyre recycling process
• Ford makes gaskets and seals from recycled tyres
• Michelin's TREC project
• Waste packaging
• Steel
• Fuel tanks
• Seats
• Wheels
• Archive
• Emerging markets
• Front-end modules
• IAC develops blow foaming process for air ducts
• Interior films from 3M
• Nissan’s SpecV version of its GT-R ‘halo car’
• PSA looks for aluminium partners

• Alternative materials: potential weight saving versus cost
• Aluminium as a percentage of total kerb weight of medium-sized passenger cars assembled in all major car producing regions, 2008-2030
• Cost of CO2 saving
• Evaluation of a clutch pedal
• Examples of alternative materials to steel
• Glass as a percentage of total kerb weight of medium-sized passenger cars assembled in all major car producing regions, 2008-2030
• Iron as a percentage of total kerb weight of medium-sized passenger cars assembled in all major car producing regions, 2008-2030
• Other materials as a percentage of total kerb weight of medium-sized passenger cars assembled in all major car producing regions, 2008-2030
• Plastics as a percentage of total kerb weight of medium-sized passenger cars assembled in all major car producing regions, 2008-2030
• Steel as a percentage of total kerb weight of medium-sized passenger cars assembled in all major car producing regions, 2008-2030

• Stadco
• Gestamp Automocion
• Solvay
• Hyundai Motor Group
• Accuride Corporation
• 3M
• Robert Bosch GmbH
• Continental AG
• Alcoa, Inc
• BASF SE
• Bridgestone Corporation
• Cooper Tire & Rubber Co
• Visteon Corporation
• Benteler International AG
• CIE Automotive SA
• Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc
• Dow Automotive Systems
• Faurecia SA
• Draxlmaier Group
• DuPont
• Woodbridge Group
• Covestro
• Webasto AG
• Freudenberg & Co. KG
• Lear Corporation
• Trelleborg AB
• Toyota Boshoku Corporation
• Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
• Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
• Toyo Tire and Rubber Co, Ltd
• Honeywell International Inc.
• International Automotive Components Group (IAC)
• Inteva Products, LLC
• Johnson Controls International plc
• ThyssenKrupp AG
• Sumitomo Corporation
• Joyson Safety Systems
• Magna International Inc.
• Martinrea International Inc.
• Metaldyne, LLC
• Michelin
• Plastic Omnium
• PPG Industries
• Autoneum
• Saint-Gobain
• Samvardhana Motherson Group
• Nippon Sheet Glass
• ZF Friedrichshafen AG
• Kobe Steel, Ltd.
• Lanxess
• Evonik
• LG Chem, Ltd.
• Sogefi S.p.A.
• SABIC Innovative Plastics
• Henkel
• Arconic