Exhibitors Tout New Products and Technologies; The Detroit Auto Interiors Show Features Latest Innovations From More Than 250 Companies

    DETROIT, May 7 Since its inception in 1994, The Detroit
Auto Interiors Show has earned a reputation as the premier gathering place for
the automotive interiors industry to see the latest in design, materials and
manufacturing technologies.  Early announcements indicate that this year will
be more exciting than ever as innovations in automotive interior electronics,
such as telematics and voice technology, take center stage at The Detroit Auto
Interiors Show -- Where Interiors, Electronics and Technology Fuse, May 15-17,
2001 at Detroit's Cobo Center.
    "The show reflects the evolving nature of the automotive interior
business," said Richard Lebovitz, Auto Interiors' editorial director.
"Attendees will see new families of materials, such as thermoplastic olefins
(TPOs) and soft-touch coatings, and new processes, such as design-to-delivery
CAD/CAM solutions for mass customization.  There is also a group of totally
new interior technologies and services, ranging from voice technology to
telematics services, that are still in their infancy."
    Auto interiors professionals at The Detroit Auto Interiors Show will also
find exhibiting companies focusing on interior technologies and services.
Several exhibitors will showcase acoustical materials being applied in
sophisticated new ways to deal with present and future interior environment
issues, such as driver distraction.  Electronics suppliers such as Altia,
Bourns, Philips Speech Processing and many others will demonstrate their
respective expertise and innovation in embedded software, semiconductors and
voice technology.
    To highlight advancements in automotive interior technology, The Detroit
Auto Interiors Show will feature the Electronics Pavilion.  The Electronic
Pavilion is a unique exhibit that highlights cutting edge in-vehicle
electronics and intelligent transportation system technologies.  Top companies
in voice technology fields, such as Lernout & Hauspie and Clarity, will be
exhibiting.  Some of the other emerging technology companies exhibiting are
IBM, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard and telematics providers Webraska and
WirelessCar.
    Auto interiors professionals will discover an array of innovative
automotive interior design, engineering and manufacturing solutions, plus an
array of exhibitors representing the fast-growing in-vehicle electronics
market and global nature of the interiors industry at The Detroit Auto
Interiors Show.
    Atlanta-based Auto Interiors is a publication of Bill Communications,
Inc., the nation's fastest-growing publisher of influential business
magazines, a producer of major conferences and expositions, and owner of
numerous Web information delivery sites on the Internet.  The company
publishes more than 45 business publications and produces 31 leading business
conferences, exhibitions and events from its headquarters in New York and its
division offices in Atlanta, Minneapolis and Washington, D.C.
    Bill Communications is a subsidiary of VNU-USA, a wholly owned subsidiary
of Netherlands-based VNU, an international publishing and information company
that employs approximately 15,000 people worldwide and has annual revenues of
more than $2.8 billion.
    For additional information on The Detroit Auto Interiors Show, visit
http://www.autointeriorshow.com

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