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Automotive Plastics - A World Market Review
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Greater flexibility in terms of design, lightweight, offering fuel efficiency and several other excellent properties are stimulating the use of plastics in automotive parts. Buoyed by the rapidly growing high temperature plastics and lucrative long fiber thermoplastics, automotive plastics are portended to increase its applications replacing steel and glass in automotive industry. Automakers today aim for manufacturing lighter vehicles and contribute to optimum fuel consumption. Plastics have emerged as a means for reducing the car weight and achieving fuel efficiency. Properties such as corrosion resistance, lightweight, durability, resiliency and toughness have spurred use of plastics in automotive parts such as fenders, doors, and bumpers.
These and other market data and trends are presented in "Automotive Plastics: World Market Review" by BizAcumen, Inc. Our reports are designed to be most comprehensive in geographic coverage and vertical market analyses.
AUTOMOTIVE PLASTICS BMR-2052
CONTENTS
1. METHODOLOGY 1
Study Reliability and Reporting Limitations 1
Disclaimers 2
Quantitative Techniques & Reporting Level 3
2. GLOBAL MARKET OVERVIEW AND OUTLOOK 4
Plastic Manufacturers Sense Huge Potential in Auto Industry 4
What Plastics Have to Offer? 5
Vehicle Weight Reduction: Top Priority for Automakers 5
Vehicle Composition Undergoes Transition 6
3. MAJOR TRENDS & ISSUES 6
Smart Materials to Act as Makeover Catalyst for Automobiles 6
Thermoset Composites Score High 7
Polycarbonate Automobile Glazing Makes Headway 7
HTPs Make Rapid Inroads in Automotive Industry 7
Safety for Pedestrians: Top Priority for Automakers 8
Long Fiber Thermoplastics Gather Momentum 8
Bioplastics Poised to Follow Healthy Growth 10
Health Issues Faced by Use of Automotive Plastics 11
Initiatives by Automakers to Go the Healthier and Eco-
Friendly Way 11
Ford 11
Nissan 12
Toyota 12
General Motors 12
Hyundai 12
Honda 13
Unsaturated Polyester Resins - Market Scan 13
Non-Recyclability of Automotive Components Concern Automakers 13
Regulations for Automotive Plastics Recycling 14
4. PRODUCT FACTS 15
Automotives -The Largest End-Use Segment for Plastics 15
Automotive Plastics Applications 16
Select Institutes Engaged in Automotive Plastics R&D 17
5. CORPORATE DEVELOPMENTS 17
SABIC and Sinopec Enter into a Joint Venture Agreement 17
BASF to Expand Its Automotive Business in India 18
DuPont Commences Production of Vespel® Shapes and Parts 18
DuPont Expands the Compounding Capability of Zytel® Portfolio 18
Dow Izolan Breaks Ground for New Facility 19
DIC Receives New Name 19
Mazda Develops New Plastic Mould Technology 19
Ford Pursues Biodegradable Plastics 20
Toray Expedites Foamed Plastics Development 20
SABIC and Azdel Launch New Automotive Composite 20
Bayer to Rollout Levblend PC-ABS-R 21
BASF Acquires BASF GE Schwarzheide 21
Basell Merges with Lyondell to Form LyondellBasell 21
SABIC Takes Over GE Plastics 22
Hanwha Acquires Azdel 22
Hitachi Incorporates Arnite® TV4 261 22
DuPont Partners With Morph Technologies, Integran and PowerMetal 22
Bayer MaterialScience Teams Up with O-Flex Automotive 23
Celanese Divests AT Plastics Film Business to BPI 23
Solvay to Set up Epichlorohydrin Manufacturing Plant 24
Saudi Kayan Signs Contracts to Set Up Two Plants for LDPE and PP 24
Dow Automotive Proposes New Plant 24
DSM Proposes New Manufacturing Facility 25
Basell Develops New HDPE Resin 25
Dow Chemical Launches New Calendering- Grade TPU Elastomer 25
Dow Chemical Launches New Low-YI TPU Elastomers 25
Bayer MaterialScience's Texin® 985 TPU Lends Support to
Xtensor Device 26
DuPont Packaging Introduces New DuPont(TM) Vamac® 26
DuPont Introduces New Grades of Soft Thermoplastic Elastomers 27
6. MAJOR PLAYERS 28
Basell Service Company B.V (The Netherlands) 28
BASF SE (Germany) 28
Bayer MaterialScience, LLC (US) 28
Celanese Corporation (US) 28
DIC Corporation (Japan) 29
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (US) 29
Equistar Chemicals LP (US) 29
Evonik Degussa GmbH (Germany) 30
Formosa Plastics Corporation (Taiwan) 30
Formosa Plastics Corporation U.S.A. (US) 30
KMI Group, Inc. (US) 31
Polimeros Nacionales S.A. de C.V. (Mexico) 31
Royal DSM N.V (The Netherlands) 31
Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Saudi Arabia) 32
Solvay S.A. (Belgium) 32
Solvay North America, LLC (US) 32
The Dow Chemical Company (US) 32
7. GLOBAL MARKET ANALYTICS 33
8. NORTH AMERICA 44
Automotive Plastics in Canada 44
9. JAPAN 45
10. EUROPE 46
Quick Facts 46
High Performance Polymers and the Automotive Industry 48
East Germany: A Land of Promises for Automotive Plastics 48
Central Europe 49
11. ASIA-PACIFIC 51
China 51
12. LATIN AMERICA 53
13. REST OF WORLD 54
EXHIBITS
Table 1: Percentage Breakdown of Long Fiber Thermoplastics
Market in the World by Application - 2006
Table 2: Global Automotive Plastics Market by Region for the
Period 2007-2015 (Consumption in Tons)
Table 3: Percentage Breakdown of Global Automotive Plastics
Market by Region for the Years 2009 & 2012
Table 4: Polypropylene Consumption in the Global Automotive
Industry by Region for the Period 2007-2015 (Consumption in
Tons)
Table 5: Percentage Breakdown of Polypropylene Consumption in
the Global Automotive Industry by Region for the Years 2009 &
2012
Table 6: Polyurethane Consumption in the Global Automotive
Industry by Region for the Period 2007-2015 (Consumption in
Tons)
Table 7: Percentage Breakdown of Polyurethane Consumption in
the Global Automotive Industry by Region for the Years 2009 &
2012
Table 8: Nylon 6 & 66 Consumption in the Global Automotive
Industry by Region for the Period 2007-2015 (Consumption in
Tons)
Table 9: Percentage Breakdown of Nylon 6 & 66 Consumption in
the Global Automotive Industry by Region for the Years 2009 &
2012
Table 10: Polyethylene Consumption in the Global Automotive
Industry by Region for the Period 2007-2015 (Consumption in
Tons)
Table 11: Percentage Breakdown of Polyethylene Consumption in
the Global Automotive Industry by Region for the Years 2009 &
2012
Table 12: PVC Consumption in the Global Automotive Industry by
Region for the Period 2007-2015 (Consumption in Tons)
Table 13: Percentage Breakdown of PVC Consumption in the
Global Automotive Industry by Region for the Years 2009-2012
Table 14: Unsaturated Polyester Consumption in the Global
Automotive Industry by Region for the Period 2007-2015
(Consumption in Tons)
Table 15: Percentage Breakdown of Unsaturated Polyester
Consumption in the Global Automotive Industry by Region for
the Years 2009-2012
Table 16: PBT/PET Consumption in the Global Automotive
Industry by Region for the Period 2007-2015 (Consumption in
Tons)
Table 17: Percentage Breakdown of PBT/PET Consumption in the
Global Automotive Industry by Region for the Years 2009-2012
Table 18: PPE Alloys Consumption in the Global Automotive
Industry by Region for the Period 2007-2015 (Consumption in
Tons)
Table 19: Percentage Breakdown of PPE Alloys Consumption in
the Global Automotive Industry by Region for the Years
2009-2012
Table 20: Polyacetal Consumption in the Global Automotive
Industry by Region for the Period 2007-2015 (Consumption in
Tons)
Table 21: Percentage Breakdown of Polyacetal Alloys
Consumption in the Global Automotive Industry by Region for
the Years 2009-2012
Table 22: Consumption of Other Plastic Types in the Global
Automotive Industry by Region for the Period 2007-2015
(Consumption in Tons)
Table 23: Percentage Breakdown of Consumption of Other Plastic
Types in the Global Automotive Industry by Region for the
Years 2009 & 2012
Table 24: North American Automotive Plastics Market by
Material Type for the Period 2007-2015 (Consumption in Tons)
Table 25: Percentage Breakdown of North American Automotive
Plastics Market by Material Type for the Years 2009 & 2012
Table 26: Japanese Automotive Plastics Market by Material Type
for the Period 2007-2015 (Consumption in Tons)
Table 27: Percentage Breakdown of Japanese Automotive Plastics
Market by Material Type for the Years 2009 & 2012
Table 28: European Small Car Market (2008): Propylene Utilized
Per Car in Select European Car Models (In Pounds)
Table 29: European Automotive Plastics Market (2005): Plastic
Weight (In Kilogram) in Select Automotive Components and
Corresponding Plastic Type Used
Table 30: European Automotive Plastics Market by Material Type
for the Period 2007-2015 (Consumption in Tons)
Table 31: Percentage Breakdown of European Automotive Plastics
Market by Material Type for the Years 2009 & 2012
Table 32: Automotive Plastics Market by Material Type in
Asia-Pacific for the Period 2007-2015 (Consumption in Tons)
Table 33: Percentage Breakdown of Automotive Plastics Market
by Material Type in Asia-Pacific for the Years 2009 & 2012
Table 34: Latin American Automotive Plastics Market by
Material Type for the Period 2007-2015 (Consumption in Tons)
Table 35: Percentage Breakdown of Latin American Automotive
Plastics Market by Material Type for the Years 2009 & 2012
Table 36: Automotive Plastics Market by Material Type in Rest
of World for the Period 2007-2015 (Consumption in Tons)
Table 37: Percentage Breakdown of Automotive Plastics Market
by Material Type in Rest of World for the Years 2009 & 2012
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