The report presents data on the changes in the use of steel in motor vehicles over the past 35 years. Sources of supply of steel for the automotive sector have shifted from almost all domestic in the 1950s to about 50% domestic and 50% foreign in the 1980s. Downsizing, design changes, and substitution of lighter weight materials to achieve energy efficiency also contributed to the market loss of the domestic steel industry. Although plastics and aluminum have displaced some steel in motor vehicles over the years, heavy low-carbon steel is now being replaced most rapidly by lightweight high-strength steel. If the percent of domestic steel used in motor vehicles had not declined since 1950, domestic industry would have supplied 9.3 million more short tons of steel than it supplied in 1985. Downsizing and design changes accounted for 43% of the loss; steel imports, 32%; and substitution of plastics and aluminum, 25%. In 1985, the total value of market share lost by U.S. steel producers was $5.1 billion, of which $1.6 billion was lost to foreign steel producers and automobile manufacturers.


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    Titel :

    Steel in Motor Vehicles: A 35-Year Perspective


    Beteiligte:
    J. Weinberg (Autor:in) / K. L. Harris (Autor:in) / G. White (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1987


    Format / Umfang :

    21 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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