Automotive Textiles
The changing landscape for Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers 40 company profiles (2nd edition)

Full Product Description

The use of textiles in automotive applications includes floorcoverings; upholstery; belts, tubes and tapes; tyre cord; safety belts; airbags; components; and filters.

As a result of higher demand for increased comfort and improved safety, the use of textile materials has increased from 20 kg in a mid-size car in 2000 to 26 kg today. In the drive towards lowering weight for reducing both fuel consumption and CO2 emissions, many current developments are including new uses for fabrics, and by 2020, it is predicted that the same sized car will contain 35 kg of textiles. This progress, however, is being offset, in the wider scheme of things, by the related trend towards smaller vehicles.

Meanwhile, the global automotive interiors market was worth an estimated US$170bn in 2007, and until only recently appeared on course to grow to a value of US$210bn by 2017. Since then, of course, things have changed rapidly. In 2008, global vehicle production fell for the first time in more than 30 years and declined even more steeply in the first half of 2009.

The impact on suppliers to the automotive OEMs has been disastrous – and only compounded by escalating raw materials costs – resulting in many plants being closed or idled and companies pushed into bankruptcy. Even before this latest recession, however, the automotive industry supply chain had been in a process of ongoing consolidation – in 1988 there were an estimated 30,000 suppliers and by 2010 it is likely there will be less than 3,000.

This new report will help you to identify:

• the current structure of the market for automotive textiles
• the rapid consolidation that has occurred over the past few years
• key trends in the global automotive industry
• principal drivers for automotive interiors
• the market for automotive occupant restraint equipment
• current and future production methods for automotive textiles
• challenges and threats to the increased use of automotive fabrics
• interior automotive fabrics by manufacturing method
• automotive tufted carpet producers and converters in Europe
• future trends in automotive textiles

Company profiles 

The report features 40 company profiles of leading players in the automotive textiles sector, including:
Ames Europe, Aunde, Autoliv,  Borgers, Carcoustics, China New Trend Group, Decoma, Donaldson, Eybl,  Faurecia, Feltex Holdings, Fibertex/Vigona, Freudenberg, FS Fehrer, Grupo Antolin, Grupo Copo, HP Pelzer, International Auto, Components Group, International Textile Group (Safety Components International), Japan Vilene,  Johnson Controls, Key Safety Systems, Lear Corporation,  Lydall, Michel Thierry/Fezko, Miko/Asahi Kasei, Milliken/Autotex, Prevent Group, Rieter Automotive, Sandler Seiren/Viscotec, Shawmut Industries, Suminoe Teijin, Techno, Tachi-S, Takata, Toyota Boshoku, Treves Group, Trevira, TRW, Uniproducts.

£445.00 GBP