The Society of Plastics Engineers launched the Automotive Innovation awards in 1971, recognizing breakthrough uses of plastics in the auto industry. One consistent rule throughout the process has been ...

Safety, performance, aesthetics, noise, comfort, reliability, and durability are the goals that keep automotive engineers up at night, and the miracle solution has, so far, been "more plastic." ...

While it’s not necessarily an easy road to travel, recycled plastics increasingly are being used in automotive applications, according to sessions at ISRI2017, the annual convention of the ...

William Kozyra, a longtime auto executive and former CEO of TI Fluid Systems, has acquired Romeo-based auto supplier Alco Plastics Inc. Alco makes injection-molded plastic components and assemblies of ...

Denver — Plastics researchers are tackling ways to recycle plastics from automotive applications. Researchers from materials giant Dow Inc. and from the University of Stuttgart each presented research ...

There are growing signs of trouble in the US automotive plastic parts industry now that two key suppliers have gone into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in as many weeks. Just over a week ago, a ...

HEYCO-Werk USA Inc., an auto plastics manufacturer, is planning to spend more than $12 million on a new production facility in Gaston County, Gov. Roy Cooper announced Thursday. The German-based ...

The car manufacturers and plastics industries in Germany have united to denounce the "rigid" recycling targets in the European End of Life Vehicle Directive. Germany's automobile federation - the VDA ...