What does a smaller Detroit Auto Show look like in 2025?
Plastics News' Sarah Kominek stopped by the show floor at Detroit's Huntington Place convention center during one of the public days that also served as a technology days event for suppliers and automakers for the show that ran Jan. 13-20.
It featured, she writes, "consumer-focused exhibits resembling sales lots with merchandise vendors and games for attendees."
"The Detroit Lions and the city itself were common themes on the show floor, as well as the usual concept cars and driving tracks from years' past," she adds.
One supplier still making its presence at the show was Aisin Corp., part of the Toyota Group of Companies, where staff met with OEMs at its booth just outside of the main hall. The automotive supplier showcased some exterior plastic parts that have been increasingly replacing heavier and less aerodynamic metal equivalents, Ryan Berndt, senior manager of exterior design at Aisin, told PN.