Lightweighting remains “super huge” for bulk haulers and others that do routinely gross out, Roeth said. They comprise 2% of the industry.

Vehicle Lightweighting: While most vehicles are steel intensive, metals such as high strength steel, aluminum, magnesium and titanium, sandwich solutions (with a few of these metals), composites ...

BASF and Toyota collaborate for lightweighting on 2021 Sienna In the previous model, the third-row seat was comprised of 15 different steel components, making it very heavy. Toyota wanted the 2021 ...

A Future of Lightweighting award went to Marelli. The company's sheet compression-molded suspension steering knuckle reduces weight by 25 percent over the aluminum version and by 50 percent over ...