Automotive

Molds/Tools 26 Feb 2018

JEC World 2018 preview: Aliancys

At the upcoming JEC World 2018 trade show, Aliancys (Schaffhausen, Switzerland) will be presenting several new product innovations.

Sustainability 26 Feb 2018

PolyOne licenses conductive long fiber technology for driver assist devices

PolyOne and Integral Technologies parter to commercialize ElectriPlast long fiber conductive thermoplastic technology for the automobile industry.

Automotive 26 Feb 2018

3A Composites' core material targets automotive

3A Composites Core Materials (Sins, Switzerland) has introduced a new structural AIREX foam core platform aimed at lightweight, high-volume automotive applications that is capable of being processed in high-temperature, high-pressure, short-cycle production methods.

Automotive 26 Feb 2018

This is going to be big: Automotive composites forecast

A company by the name of Global Market Insights Inc. contacted me recently, alerting me to the presence of a new forecast report for automotive composites.

Sustainability 23 Feb 2018

Composites give shape to new passenger bus

The VDL Bus & Coach Citea bus features composite structures fabricated using a vacuum expansion process (VEX) with specially formulated foaming resin compounds supplied by BÜFA Composite Systems.

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Out of Autoclave 22 Feb 2018

So, you want to make automotive composites . . .

Materials and manufacturing processes for autocomposites are evolving rapidly, and CompositesWorld wants to help you sort it out. A free, March 29 webinar is designed to help bring you up to speed on the manufacturing technologies best suited for autocomposites.

Electric Vehicles 21 Feb 2018

Carbon fiber has designs on production wheels

A high-performance CFRP wheel manufacturer for nearly 20 years, Dymag is now part of a broader effort to reduce their cost and migrate them into volume vehicles.

Aerospace 20 Feb 2018

Airborne, Siemens and SABIC partner to mass produce thermoplastic composites

Flexible, automated production lines, featuring radically low conversion costs, aimed at millions of parts/yr — CW’s interview with all three companies.

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