Posted by Steve Anreder on March 13, 2000 at 10:11:44:
In Reply to: E-marketplace posted by Marguerite Ladriere on March 12, 2000 at 12:17:18:
The article speaks to an issue we've discussed widely for some time, and which, as it happens, is the subject and some discussion in an interview with me appearing in today's The Wall Street Transcript (March 13, 2000). We can't comment on the motivation of the move, but clearly its a development whose time has come. The auto industry is facing profound changes, much as did the computer industry. It will move more and more to a custom-like production model, and auto makers will invest more of their energies to development and marketing. We believe this will provide important opportunities formany companies, Soligen included. Our computer-based approach to die casting is most definitely a business-to-business Internet approach, and has been for years. We would expect that as the system of outsourcing grows and becomes more diverse that Soligen's unique capabilities importantly will benefit from this inevitable trend.