There is, for example, a growing group of automobile parts companies that import raw
materials from outside the United States, own and operate multiple manufacturing
plants that are close to their domestic customers, distribute finished goods through consumer direct channels, selling most of their products upstream for inclusion in final assembly and use
excess manufacturing capacity to produce specialty export parts for foreign customers.
When it comes to America and goes on sale at an as yet undetermined price, the 2015 e-Golf will represent a factory once written off as uncompetitive and a company in the midst of transformation, determined to reduce energy use and
material waste in its
plants, to use lightweight, hot - formed steel wherever possible, and to scrape away every gram of
excess metal from engine components for better efficiency.