TOYOTA Commemorative Museum / Conversion of glass components to plastic
The TOYOTA Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology was established by the Toyota Group companies in 1994 on the location of the first factory built by Toyota. The museum's Textile Machinery Pavilion and Automobile Pavilion present the development of Japan's industrial technology with exhibits of textile machinery, one of the core industries that helped build modern Japan, and automobile engineering, which continues to drive the country's development. (For more information, see the February 2012 issue of the PR magazine pla-topia.) http://www.tcmit.org/
Conversion of glass components to plastic
Automobile comprises safety glass in which a plastic film is inserted between two glass layers. Plastic materials such as polycarbonate are used in some side glass, as well as head lamps and rear lamps, and transparent plastics are used in meters in the instrument panel. Mirrors are one area where conversion to plastics is advancing. The majority of internal mechanical components have been converted to plastic, and components with their reverse sides plated are also used.
