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Europe Attempts Ban On Carbon Fiber

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While the industry will presumably petition the government against instituting any official restrictions, theres always a chance the rule could come to pass shaking up the global supply chain. However, it wasnt until the 1960s that manufacturing technologies allowed the material to start being used for the aerospace industry.

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Willie Hobbs Moore: STEM Trailblazer

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She conducted physics research at the University of Michigan and held several positions in industry before joining Ford Motor Co. She rose through the ranks at the automaker and served as an executive who oversaw the warranty department within the companys automobile assembly operation. in Dearborn, Mich., She became a U.S.

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Abandoned History: America's 1970s Convertible Controversy, Who's to Blame?

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Automotive safety was newly in the public eye, after Ralph Nader’s book Unsafe at Any Speed arrived in 1965 to skewer the domestic automobile industry. The Detroit automakers were of course against such testing, and claimed, alongside the Automobile Manufacturers Association, that testing both sides of the roof was “unnecessary.”

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Audi and KIT working on recycling for automotive plastics via pyrolysis oil

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A large number of components in automobiles are made from plastics; these have to meet exacting safety, heat-resistance and quality requirements. That is why, so far, only petroleum-based materials have been suitable for manufacturing plastic components in automobiles that are subjected to particularly intensive wear.

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GE study finds 5% of worlds natural gas production wasted per year by flaring

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A newly released GE study — Flare Gas Reduction: Recent Global Trends and Policy Considerations —estimates that 5% of the world’s natural gas production is wasted by burning or “flaring” unused gas each year, despite some progress on the flaring issue. The study finds that the technologies required for a solution exist now.

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Study of Sustainable Value in Automobile Manufacturing Finds Mixed Performance for Most OEMs, BMW and Toyota as the Clear Leaders

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The BMW Group and Toyota are consistent industry leaders, creating extremely positive Sustainable Value over the entire review period—i.e., Findings of the report include: Toyota and the BMW Group are industry leaders. In other words, the authors note, these companies use these resources more efficiently than their industry peers.

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NA steel industry has recycled more than 1B tons of steel since 1988; 16.3M tons of automotive scrap in 2012

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The North American steel industry has recycled more than one billion tons of steel since 1988, according to the Steel Recycling Institute (SRI), a business unit of the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI). million automobiles. For 2012, the overall recycling rate for steel was 88% with nearly 84 million tons of steel recycled.

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