Automotive
BGF – US link to global composites high-tech
With >50 years in composites, this well-known US supplier is widening its portfolio of composites technologies into opportunities for integrated products and advanced manufacturing.
WatchMajor automotive tier supplier moving to composites
A well-known Tier 1 supplier to the auto industry, Cooper Standard (Novi, MI, US) employs more than 30,000 employees at 120 facilities worldwide, and is the largest global supplier of automotive sealing systems.
Read MoreTooling: 3D printing’s “killer app”
If 3D printing can be scaled to make tools for composite auto body panels ... it will be transformative
Read MoreState of the Composites Industry
Do you have your own assessment of the state of the composites industry? If so, let me know at jeff@compositesworld.com. And have a great 2018.
Read MoreNanodiamond additives available
Silicon Sense (Nashua, NH, US), the US representative of Finnish nanodiamond manufacturer Carbodeon Ltd Oy (Helsinki), has become the first US-based importer of detonation nanodiamond materials.
Read MoreSGL and Bertrandt develop carbon composite for auto interiors
Bertrandt (Ehningen, Germany) and SGL Group (Meitingen, Germany) have collaborated on a new integrated concept for innovative interior structures based on composite materials, that the two companies call the “Carbon Carrier.”
Read MoreUK's EPSRC forms alliance with ICMAC event
the UK’s EPSRC recently announced that The Future Composites Manufacturing Research Hub (The Hub) has formed a strategic partnership with ICMAC 2018: The International Conference on Manufacturing of Advanced Composites, to be held in Nottingham over two days on July 11-12, 2018.
Read MoreSigmatex wins Jaguar Land Rover Innovation Award
Sigmatex just received the JLR Innovation Award, presented on behalf of the Northern Automotive Alliance at their annual awards dinner on November 12, for its sigmaRF thermoplastic/carbon fiber hybrid material that can be press-formed into a finished product.
Read MoreAutomotive innovation challenge issued
ALLIANCE (Affordable Lightweight Automobiles Alliance) is a research and innovation project on automotive lightweighting, co-funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 program and supported by EUCAR, the European Council for Automotive R&D. The group has issued a challenge for new innovations to help create lighter vehicles.
Read MoreLarge, Class A parts every 60-150 seconds
Romeo RIM advances long fiber injection process efficiency for lighter, lower-cost composite parts.
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