This news article was originally written in Spanish. It has been automatically translated for your convenience. Reasonable efforts have been made to provide an accurate translation, however, no automated translation is perfect nor is it intended to replace a human translator. The original article in Spanish can be viewed at La competencia existe entre los propios plásticos y los diferentes metales
Metals and plastics collaboration or competition?
Competition exists between own plastics and various metals
by Andrés Rubio Villahoz
Director Division Automotive - Fundación Inasmet30/04/1999
Director Division Automotive - Fundación Inasmet30/04/1999
Advances produced, both in the generation of new materials and the deep knowledge of their properties, their behavior in service and its processes of transformation, make that, depending on the technical, economic, social and ecological requirements of a given application, you can select or a metal, or plastic, or a combination of both.
As distinct from a plastic and a metal nature, do not be direct competition among themselves, but that it is established between different types of plastics and various metals. Therefore, we would talk, for a particular application, availability or alternatives of use of one or another material or, indeed, a combination of a set of requirement included in the book of specifications.
