by Lori Jo Vest | Jun 19, 2013 | General News
INDUSTRY TODAY, JUNE 2013 – Pound for Pound – The boundless heavyweight fight continues between steel and aluminum for supreme lightweight bragging rights for automotive body structures. After decades of aluminum claiming that it is No. 1, recent studies...
by Lori Jo Vest | May 22, 2013 | General News
BRUSSELS, 22 May 2013 – As negotiations on the EU review of the CO2 emissions from cars Regulation kick off today, the steel industry calls upon the Council to uphold Parliament’s amendment acknowledging the importance of a Life Cycle Assessment in emissions...
by Lori Jo Vest | May 2, 2013 | General News
DETROIT, May 2, 2013 – More than 1,400 steel and automotive experts gathered in Livonia, Mich. yesterday to discuss a key aspect of the automotive industry’s future success: advanced steel technologies. Recent research proves that advanced high-strength steel (AHSS)...
by Lori Jo Vest | May 2, 2013 | General News
New studies show a further reduction in body structure mass The latest in a continuing series of research studies strongly suggest that steel auto body structures in the near future can be as lightweight as today’s aluminium bodies, while meeting all crash performance...
by Lori Jo Vest | Dec 3, 2012 | General News
The Design Advisor software, available for free download here, allows vehicle design decision makers to quickly and accurately examine material selection tradeoffs in terms of mass, cost and greenhouse gas emissions savings. Design Advisor, developed by Dr. Don Malen...
by Lori Jo Vest | Oct 25, 2012 | General News
Buenos Aires, 25 October 2012 – Over 90 representatives from across Latin America came together to look at how Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) could be rolled out through the steel industry in the region. LCA provides a method of assessing the environmental impacts of a...
