Research and Markets: Global Market Review of Front-end Modules for Passenger Cars and Light Trucks Forecasts to 2017 - Now Available

July 23, 2010

DUBLIN--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/5ebb7a/global_market_revi) has announced the addition of the "Global Market Review of Front-end Modules for Passenger Cars and Light Trucks Forecasts to 2017" report to their offering.

“Global Market Review of Front-end Modules for Passenger Cars and Light Trucks Forecasts to 2017”

The major functions of the front-end components are to act as a body frame, taking in and cooling air, protecting the vehicle and its occupants in the event of a collision, properly illuminating the front of the vehicle as well as offering improved appearance and exterior styling.

The front-end module brings benefits to vehicle makers as they are able to reduce the number of operations on their assembly lines, simplify their supply chains, reduce modular weight and improve the ergonomic aspects of the assembly process. It can also help cut tooling costs and improve working capital. The most important potential benefit of modular construction is standardisation, allowing suppliers to offer standard solutions to different manufacturers and hence bring costs down.

In this, the fifth edition of this report, just-auto reviews the key market drivers for vehicle front-end modules, and updates the market analysis. Following our market overview in Chapter 1 Introduction, Chapter 2 The market, provides just-autos product fitment forecasts, predicting in some detail how the front-end module market will evolve in major producing regions.

The market chapter begins with a brief review of recent activity by the key players, including Calsonic Kansei, Denso, Faurecia, HBPO, Magna International, and Peguform.

These are followed by market share charts covering 2009 OE supply market shares by supplier globally, Europe, Asia and NAFTA region.

The market data tables in this chapter include values and volumes of front-end module production in Europe, North America, South Korea, Japan, China, South America and other countries for passenger cars and light vehicles from 2007 to 2017.

Chapter 3 Technical review This chapter provides an updated review of new product developments. It presents information on recent innovations and includes an exclusive Q&A with Continental regarding its pedestrian protection technology.

Chapter 4 Manufacturers Here, the report sets out profiles of the major manufacturers, namely Calsonic Kansei, Denso, Faurecia, HBPO, Magna International and Peguform.

The report also provides an appendix providing coverage of standard requirements for pedestrian protection.

Also provided is an appendix of an interview with JSP, regarding its expanded polypropylene, dubbed ARPRO, which is found in a range of automotive applications, including bumpers and front-end modules.