In spite of broader challenges facing the automotive industry, particularly in North America, the 39th-annual Automotive Innovation Awards Competition moves forward this Thursday, Nov. 12, with approximately the same number of entrants, over 50, as a year ago, and with this field displaying a greater geographic reach. According to the Society of Plastics Engineers' ( SPE ) Automotive Div. (Troy, MI), which organizes the annual event, 2009's nominations can be found on commercial vehicles produced on four continents: North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

In the environmental category, the 2010 Toyota Camry's radiator end tank, which is molded by Denso from bio-derived (castor-bean oil) PA from DuPont was nominated, as was quarter trim bin for the 2010 Ford Flex injection molded from a wheat-straw reinforced PP compound from A. Schulman, and an extruded halogen-free wire coating on a series for GM vehicles using polyphenylene oxide (PPO) from Sabic.

In the chassis and hardware category, the three nominees included an electric power-steering flexible coupling injection molded from DSM glass-filled polyamide (PA) for the 2010 Fiat 500; a thermoplastic urethane (TPU) load-management striker cap made from BASF resin by Delphi for the 2009 Cadillac CTS V-Series; and a below-belt door-glass retaining bracket on the 2010 Ford Taurus molded from Dow PA 6/6 by Henneges.

In the body interior category, there are four nominees, including a tufted polyethylene terephthalate (PET) carpet for the 2010 GM Commodore sedan; plastic post isolation for Chevy's Camaro injection molded by Delphi from talc-filled polypropylene; an injection molded talc-filled PP mold and fold cluster attachment bracket from Automotive Components Holdings (ACH) for the 2009 Ford F-Series; and a soy-foam based acoustical headliner from Magna that's used in the 2010 Ford Escape and Edge vehicles, as well as the Lincoln MKX.

In terms of OEM representation, Ford Motor Co. In the body exterior category, Ford's 2010 model-year Taurus, which was also named winner of the SPE Vehicle Engineering Team Award, had three parts nominated, including a three-layer extruded outer-belt weather strip using thermoplastic vulcanizate from ExxonMobil Chemical; injection molded weatherstrip corner overlays made with glass-filled DuPont polyamide; and an injection molded headlamp bezel using Sabic Innovative Plastics polycarbonate (PC). After that Fiat, Toyota, BMW, Chrysler, Volkswagen, Daimler, Hyundai, and Kia all had one entry make it to the final round. led the way, with 15 entrants, followed by General Motors with eight. Also featured in that category: an injection molded Sabic PC spoiler for the Cadillac CTS Sport Wagon.

After a pre-qualification round and two rounds of judging, finalists were selected in nine different categories, with winners in each of those and a Grand Award Winner to be announced Nov. 12 during the Automotive Innovation Awards Gala, held at Burton Manor in Livonia, MI.

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