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Archive Home > 2009 > September > 20 > STEEL and the auto industry

STEEL and the auto industry

Stronger metal gives U.S. companies a boost in technology

By Henry Fountain / The Bulletin
September 20, 2009

For all the talk of reinvention in the auto industry, of car companies using high-technology materials to make lighter and stronger vehicles that are safer and more fuel-efficient, the mainstay of the mass-produced automobile is the same as it has always been: steel.

The modern car still....

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