HIGASHI-OSAKA, Japan -- A scrappy Osaka company with special technology for heating plastic film has a proposition to big automakers: go green by adopting its environmentally friendly method to "paint" car bodies.
Fu-se Vacuum Forming has developed a device that applies colored film to car bodies. The simple one-step pressing process is expected to slash electricity consumption by more than two-thirds compared with the regular coating method, which involves repeating painting and drying.
