From Deublin Co.

While initial concerns were to manufacture components out of lighter "plastic" (let's just use this derogatory term for crude oil-based synthetic materials for the moment) to replace metal parts and reduce fuel consumption, mouldings mean a whole lot more today.

In recent years, greater efforts have been made to manufacture mouldings out of a higher percentage of renewable materials and to find material combinations that, firstly, serve the purpose or task of the component in the vehicle reliably and, secondly, already take the later degradation and recycling into account.

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