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Bayer And Japanese Firms Pursue Auto Glazing

by Alexander H. Tullo
March 1, 2010 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 88, Issue 9

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Credit: Bayer
<em>Bayer’s polycarbonate is used on Hyundai’s 
i-mode concept car.</em>
Credit: Bayer
<em>Bayer’s polycarbonate is used on Hyundai’s 
i-mode concept car.</em>

BayerMaterialScience will collaborate with Japanese injection molding machine maker Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and mold maker Kyowa Industrial to advance polycarbonate for automotive glazing applications. Bayer will use a machine at Mitsubishi’s technical service center in Nagoya City, Japan. The German firm says injection molding is an ideal way to process polycarbonate into three-dimensional shapes such as panoramic roofs for cars.

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