GE Plastics Press Kit PIM Auto Conference
Poznan (Poland), 10-11 May 2006

GE Plastics, Automotive

GE Plastics’ Automotive Business Accelerates Activities for Eastern European Booming Automotive Industry

BERGEN OP ZOOM, THE NETHERLANDS — May 10, 2006 — GE Plastics is accelerating its market and application development activities for Eastern Europe’s rapidly expanding automotive industry. Leading this strategic offensive are:

GE Plastics Drives “Bumper-to-Bumper” Solutions for Global Automotive Industry for Nearly 50 Years

BERGEN OP ZOOM, THE NETHERLANDS — September 28, 2006 — For nearly half a century, GE Plastics has earned the reputation as a leading global automotive supplier of bumper-to-bumper solutions in engineering thermoplastics. With over 78 locations across the globe, GE Plastics’ dedicated Automotive organization is an experienced, world-wide competitor, fully committed to serving an industry that manufacturers products for the world’s most demanding customers.

GE Plastics’ Automotive Business “Goes Big” With Seven-Segment Structure Geared To Meet Key Customer Needs

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Innovation in New Components Technologies is focus of GE’s material developments

BERGEN OP ZOOM, THE NETHERLANDS — May 10, 2006 — GE’s material innovations for components feature a full range of traditional applications such as mirror housings and spoilers, along with newer applications like roof racks, running boards, and wipers. The new material technologies being introduced are the latest grade of Noryl* BN9003G resin for blow-molding applications (i.e. spoilers); new Geloy* XTW resin for mirror housings, appliqués, trims, and grilles; Xenoy* X4000BM resin for running boards and step assists; Cycoloy* CP8930 resin, a chrome plating grade for exterior and interior door handles, running boards, wheel covers, grilles, roof racks, and trim components; as well as conductive Noryl GTX* resin for tank flaps allowing on-line electrostatic painting. GE’s Visualfx* special effects resin also helps automotive components stand out from the crowd with a designers’ paradise of over 34 different effects and over 33,000 dynamic color variants, loadings, and derivatives to contrast.

GE’s Lexan* EXL Resin Featured in New Cadillac DTS Instrument Panel

BERGEN OP ZOOM, THE NETHERLANDS. — May 10, 2006 — To create an innovative instrument panel (IP) incorporating the passenger air bag system for GM’s upcoming Cadillac DTS model, Lear Corporation, a Fortune 500 supplier of integrated automotive interiors, took an innovative approach. The company’s design, featuring an IP Active Upper, or “topper,” instead of the traditional air bag door, required several critical material properties. To enable the topper to rapidly lift up above the inflating air bag while avoiding the safety hazard of fragmentation, especially at low temperatures, the material had to be highly ductile. To prevent degradation from temperature extremes over the life of the vehicle, the material needed to resist environmental aging. Finally, it had to offer design flexibility to accommodate the limited space offered by the Cadillac’s aggressive windshield rake angle.

Exatec® 900el – for a pleasant ambience on the road

At the international “Plastics in Automotive Engineering” congress in Mannheim Exatec showed the prototype of an electroluminescent interior light-band in different colors directly integrated into Polycarbonate glazing panels. This is made possible by an electroluminescent light band, which is integrated by a special process directly into the perimeter of the transparent polycarbonate car roof. The roof was manufactured using the proven Exatec® 900 technology and the light band applied directly onto a film. The illumination intensity conforms to the legal regulations and does not exceed the allowed level. The new technology Exatec 900el allows drivers and passengers to adjust the brightness of the interior lighting to suite their individual needs

GE and Royal College of Art name winning “auto design of the future” students

BERGEN OP ZOOM THE NETHERLANDS — April 11, 2006 — Vehicle designs for the emerging Chinese market and new ideas for the unique properties of plastics scooped the top awards on April 6 at the GE sponsored Royal College of Art PLASTicon competition.

Suzuki Swift Pedestrian Protection Energy Absorber Featuring GE’s Xenoy* Resin Wins SPE Automotive Innovation Award

BERGEN OP ZOOM, THE NETHERLANDS — Mary 10, 2006 — GE Plastics’ Automotive business announces that an application featuring its Xenoy* resin – a pedestrian protection energy absorber for the 2005 Suzuki Swift “sub-compact” automobile – has been named the first-ever winner in the Safety System category of the 2005 SPE Automotive Innovation Awards program.

Milestones: GE Plastics Continues to Drive Automotive Innovation After Nearly 50 Years of Service

For nearly half a century, GE Plastics has set standards for high-performance automotive polymers. Beginning in 1958 with the introduction of Lexan* resin, its first engineering plastic, GE has continued the tradition of developing advanced automotive materials, while delivering world-class technical support and unparalleled customer service.

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