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    Award-Winning MSC Smart Steel Wins Over Ford

    Written by Tim Triplett


    Material Sciences Corporation was honored with a 2019 Automotive News PACE Award for its MSC Smart Steel®, a new multilayer steel laminate engineered as a direct substitute for low carbon stamped vehicle body parts.

    Offering up to a 35 percent mass savings compared with same-thickness standard steel, MSC Smart Steel is produced as a coil, stamped in conventional dies, spot welded with existing equipment and processed through standard electro-coat and paint systems—essentially compatible with existing manufacturing systems. MSC claims it is the first ever spot-weldable, low-density composite laminate to be used in an automotive body application.

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