Mitsui recently announced that it had entered into an equity partnership with Forward Engineering (FE) to continue to beef up its automotive carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) business. FE is a German company specializing in the design and engineering of lightweight automotive structures made fr...
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