The car roof box shown in the image is to be made of glass-fibre reinforced polyester in a batch of 10,000. It is made up of two separate shell-like components – an upper and a lower half. What processes are available to shape them? Use the matrices of Figs. 7.3, 7.4 and 7.6 to identify potential candidates.

Data From Fig, 7.3

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