Automotive & Transportation Interiors Expo
18 May 1998
Automotive & Transportation Interiors Magazine Hosts Fifth Annual International Expo in Detroit May 19-21WHAT: Automotive & Transportation Interiors Expo, the world's largest annual exposition and conference devoted to automotive interiors, will be held May 19-21, 1998, at Detroit's Cobo Conference/Exhibition Center. The Expo provides access to more than 170 major product/component suppliers, raw material producers and equipment manufacturers. A series of educational conferences featuring 40 international automotive interiors experts also will be held to address the industry's foremost design, engineering and manufacturing issues. Topics will range from addressing passenger safety in design to soft trim and plastics technologies, as well as the latest thinking on wood products, customer needs and workplace ergonomics. Two other educational conferences will be held in conjunction with the Expo, including: -- Technomic Publishing's Air Bag Technology '98 Conference May 18-19 -- Society of Plastics Engineers 1998 Automotive RETEC Conference May 21 WHEN: Exhibit hours are: 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m., May 19-21 Conference sessions begin at 8:45 a.m. each day WHERE: Cobo Conference/Exhibition Center 1 Washington Boulevard Detroit, Mich. 48226-4420 SCHOLARSHIP The Fourth Annual Automotive & Transportation Interiors EVENTS: Benefit Scholarship Awards Banquet will be held May 19 at the Atheneum Suite Hotel. The Expo's first annual golf tournament takes place on May 17. All proceeds from these events will be donated to top students at the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan State University and Western Michigan University. For more information about these events, contact Tracy Stuckrath at 404-252-8831, ext. 378. MEDIA Attending media should pick up credentials in the Expo press NOTE: room, located on the first floor of Cobo Center, Oakland Hall, at the entrance to the Expo. CONTACT: Mary Schafer or Nancy McCardel, Fleishman-Hillard International Communications, 404-659-4446.