Ratickle
04-18-2012, 05:56 PM
I just read this, had no idea...
So we may have only 50% of the brake and fuel lines we need to meet the current requirement? And the plant isn't expected to be up and running until winter???? Sounds like Obama may be happy, less green house gases.....
Good thing boats don't have brakes I guess......
The plant exploded March 31st....
Production shortfalls at a single German auto-parts supplier are beginning to ricochet through the global auto business.
More than 200 auto executives met in a Detroit suburb on Tuesday to evaluate a looming shortage of a relatively obscure resin essential to modern auto production.
Inventories of the resin are being depleted after an explosion last month at an Evonik Industries AG plant in Marl, Germany, that killed two employees. Evonik describes itself as the only integrated maker of the resin, which is used to make fuel and brake lines.
"We are doing our utmost to resume production before the winter this year and expect that the works to fully repair the plant will take at least three months," an Evonik spokeswoman said. Several Evonik executives attended the meeting on Tuesday.
Evonik makes 25% of the global supply of the specialty resin known as nylon-12 and supplies a chemical building block to another company that makes a similar amount. The resin is a precise blend of chemicals that can resist reacting with gasoline and brake fluids.
http://justbrakes.co/reviews/2012/04/17/global-auto-parts-shortage-threatens-assembly-lines/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304432704577349883297625686.html?ru=MKTW&mod=MKTW
So we may have only 50% of the brake and fuel lines we need to meet the current requirement? And the plant isn't expected to be up and running until winter???? Sounds like Obama may be happy, less green house gases.....
Good thing boats don't have brakes I guess......
The plant exploded March 31st....
Production shortfalls at a single German auto-parts supplier are beginning to ricochet through the global auto business.
More than 200 auto executives met in a Detroit suburb on Tuesday to evaluate a looming shortage of a relatively obscure resin essential to modern auto production.
Inventories of the resin are being depleted after an explosion last month at an Evonik Industries AG plant in Marl, Germany, that killed two employees. Evonik describes itself as the only integrated maker of the resin, which is used to make fuel and brake lines.
"We are doing our utmost to resume production before the winter this year and expect that the works to fully repair the plant will take at least three months," an Evonik spokeswoman said. Several Evonik executives attended the meeting on Tuesday.
Evonik makes 25% of the global supply of the specialty resin known as nylon-12 and supplies a chemical building block to another company that makes a similar amount. The resin is a precise blend of chemicals that can resist reacting with gasoline and brake fluids.
http://justbrakes.co/reviews/2012/04/17/global-auto-parts-shortage-threatens-assembly-lines/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304432704577349883297625686.html?ru=MKTW&mod=MKTW