1.5 Billion Vehicles Will Be Produced and Sold over the Twenty-Year Period 2001 to 2020; Research and Markets: Managing the Future Portfolio

DUBLIN, Ireland--Aug. 3, 20040, 2004--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com) has announced the addition of Managing The Future Portfolio to their offering.

This offer combines two best-selling long-term forecasting reports into one package:

1. Managing the Future - World Vehicle Forecasts and Strategies to 2020

2. Managing the Future - The Environmental Challenge to 2020

Managing the Future - World Vehicle Forecasts and Strategies to 2020 This highly successful and ground-breaking special research report has been updated for March 2003 to take into account the effects of September 11th and the potential problems presented by the current situation in Iraq.

Originally published as a three volume, 700 A4 page analysis of the global motor industry for the 60-year period from 1960 to 2020, this new edition extracts all of the key features of the original report and condenses them into one single volume.

This unique data set, complete with descriptive text and full graphics, continues to describe the history and future of the industry. It explains the fact that in excess of 1.5 billion vehicles will be produced and sold over the twenty-year period 2001 to 2020 inclusive, how the number of vehicles plying the roads of the world will rise remorselessly to 1.1 billion units, where the market size of 100 million vehicles sales and production in 2020 will be located and how the rise of vehicle scrappage constrains ownership and renews and cleans the world's vehicle fleet.

Managing the Future - The Environmental Challenge to 2020 It is sometimes said that the scrapping and recycling of motor vehicles will become the next big industry. There are also many who say that it is already a big industry as manufacturers are spending large amounts of money in preparing their products for increased levels of recycling.

Both opinions are correct, and, as an industry, recycling is going to become even bigger. There is a growing acknowledgement that vehicle scrappage and recycling is a pressing global problem that must be tackled on a world scale, as 1.6 billion tonnes of scrap materials will need to be processed over the twenty-year period from 2001 to 2020 inclusive.

This special research report is a determined attempt to put some numbers onto the size of the challenge, so that it can better be defined and solutions achieved. The report looks at the future growth of the motor industry - including the dramatic rise in activity in the developing world - up to 2020. It takes into account vehicle sales volumes and average vehicle weights, and builds into the equations assumptions as to how vehicle weights reduce year on year as the fight for an energy efficient, less polluting and environmentally friendly motor vehicle moves to the top of the agenda.

Major material categories covered:

Total Materials

Iron & Steel

Non-ferrous metals

Glass

Plastics

Rubber

Other materials

Report Contents:

Managing the Future - World Vehicle Forecasts and Strategies to 2020

List of Tables

List of Charts

List of GraphsGlossary

Background

The Vital Statistics

Creating the Forecast

- Managing the Future

Executive Summary Of Extracts

- Vehicle Sales

- Vehicle Production

- Vehicle Parc

- Vehicle Ownership Density

- Vehicle Scrap Volume

- Drivers of Change - Roads

- Drivers of Change - Population

- Drivers of Change - Households

- Drivers of Change - Urban Population

- Gross National Product

Managing the Future - The Environmental Challenge to 2020

Contents

Pemberton Associates

Acknowledgements

Table of Contents

List of Charts

List of Tables

List of Graphs

Glossary

Countries and Regions Contained in the Consolidated Tables

Introduction and Overview

About this Special Research Report

Market Profile Features

Flow Chart of Industry Dependencies by Elements

- Automotive Industry

- Vehicle Ownership Density Comparator

- Overview of Global Market Activity

- Overview of Global Vehicle Weight

- The "Top Twelve" Automotive Materials Markets of the Future

- Sales Volume and Weight Review

- Parc Volume and Weight Review

- Scrap Volume and Weight Review

- Weight of Material used in Vehicle Construction

- Cumulative Weight of Materials used in Vehicle Construction

- Material Forecasts for Sales, Parc and Scrap

- Total Materials

- Iron and Steel

- Non-Ferrous Metals

- Glass

- Plastics

- Rubber

- Other Materials