Automotive
Keynote Q&A: Gary Smyth, GM Global Research & Development
Gary J. Smyth, Ph.D., executive director, Global R&D Laboratories, GM Global Research & Development, will be the keynote speaker at CAMX 2015 (Oct. 26-29, Dallas, TX, US), discussing the carmaker's material and manufacturing strategies as it pursues lightweighting in new-car development. CompositesWorld offers this Q&A with Smyth, as a preview to the live event, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
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Teijin (quietly) announces plans for Sereebo rollout in automotive
Somewhat buried in its Integrated Report 2015, Teijin says the company's thermoplastic-based, high-speed molding process, dubbed Sereebo, is ready for commercialization, necessitating in the process a new Teijin manufacturing facility somewhere in the U.S.
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Smart Lightweighting at ACCE
I’m in Detroit, at the 2015 Society of Plastics Engineers’ (SPE) Automotive Composites Conference and Exhibition (ACCE), co-chaired by our contributor Dale Brosius and organized by our contributor Peggy Malnati. And I’m seeing real composite cars, and real, in-production composite parts.
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Automotive front axle: A glass act
The development of glass-fiber reinforced car axle is a sign of the new, expanded role composites will play in the design of future automobiles.
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Rapid tooling breakthrough: Fused particle technology
Super-fast, inexpensive tooling is ideal for low-pressure molding processes and low production volumes.
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Mini-autoclaves for visual carbon parts
This side story to CW's Plant Tour of Mubea Carbo Tech spotlights the company's mini-autoclaves.
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HP-RTM: A means, not an end
This side story to CW's Plant Tour of Mubea Carbo Tech explores MCT's HP-RTM technologies.
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Mubea Carbo Tech: High-quality auto composites go high-volume
Known for its precision and technical acumen in CFRP motorsports structures, MCT draws from its steel auto parts parent to push high-performance and industrial production to new plateaus.
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Automotive composites: Thermosets for the fast zone
Epoxies continue to be developed for faster cure to meet automotive production rates.
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CW Business Index at 48.0 – Lowest since July 2013
Steve Kline, Jr. is the director of market intelligence for Gardner Business Media Inc. (Cincinnati, OH, US), the publisher of CompositesWorld magazine. Here, he presents the CompositesWorld Business Index, a measure of the relative health of the US composites industry, for the month of July 2015.
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