Materials

The materials section discusses the new developments in the materials used in automobile manufacturing.

Auto Focus Asia, Issue 3, 2008

Design for Recycling

The Renault way

Rising raw material cost and regulatory pressure are forcing automotive manufacturers to design vehicles that can be easily recycled.

Reinventing Automotive Steel

For more environmental friendlier vehicles

Steel is reinventing itself to lower the Green House Gas (GHG) output of cars and trucks at little or no additional cost to automotive manufacturers or consumers.

Auto Focus Asia, Issue 2, December 2007

The Mixed Material Concept of the New BMW X5

Markus Pfestorf, Key Specialist for Materials Concepts of the Body-In-White, BMW AG, Germany
Duane Copeland, Lead Procurement Specialist-Future Body-In-White Launches, BMW MC, USA

BehrOxal®

Behr’s Ecologically Sustainable Coating Technology

Dr. Snjezana Boger, Head of Global Plastics Department, Advanced Engineering Air Conditioning, Behr GmbH & Co. KG, Germany

Fineblanking

More than just an alternative manufacturing technique

Heinz Kaderli, Area Sales Manager, Feintool Technologie AG, Switzerland

Auto Focus Asia, Issue 1, March 2007

Press Hardening Process of Boron Steel Sheets

New developments

Ralf Kolleck, Professor, Tools & Forming, GRAZ Technical University, Austria