U.S. Farathane to Open Facility in Riverside, Missouri

Photo: Machinery being installed at U.S. Farathane’s facility at the Riverside Horizons Business Park.

Leading plastic manufacturer U.S. Farathane will open its first Missouri production facility in Riverside. The $51.6 million expansion is expected to create 267 jobs over the course of three years.

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Auto OEMs Deal With Changes in How We Move

Caption: The 2011 Range Rover Evoque featured a 35 percent overall weight reduction compared to Land Rover’s 2010 Range Rover Sport model. The company used resins from Innovative Plastics, a business unit of SABIC, in areas such as the front fenders, and in the pedestrian energy absorber. Photo: SABIC…

Automotive Industry is Smarter and Lighter

By Rachel Duran

Intelligent transportation systems and mass reduction propel auto design and engineering.

It is believed in the future that the majority of vehicles on the road will be driven autonomously by communicating with networks operating from the cloud. Organizations, including automakers and Google, are already testing these connected…