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The automotive industry uses a wide variety of specialty metals. Each has their own special properties making them the materials of choice for exhaust system parts, gaskets, air bag inflator housings, windshield wipers and blades, fuel systems, and, fasteners, along with many other critical components. In addition to power train and structural parts, austenitic stainless steels are used by the trucking industry for tanks for food and dairy containment, cryogenic applications, chemicals, and acids.

Stainless steel is also used on exterior trim for its bright appearance and for internal components for its corrosion resistance. Temper-rolled types 301 and 201 are commonly used to for mass transit rail cars, with specialty alloys employed for transport of corrosive chemicals. Structural truck trailer frames take advantage of the corrosion resistance combined with the strength of 201.

growth opportunities

Beta titanium’s are now being used in suspension systems.

emerging technologies

New omission controls have resulted in dynamic methods in new engine designs - catalytic converters use Ni625.