Automotive

Sustainability

SPE announces dates, deadlines for automotive awards gala

The Automotive Division of the Society of Plastics Engineers will host its 45th-annual Automotive Innovation Awards Gala on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015, at Burton Manor in Livonia, MI, US.

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Automotive

Glass/epoxy RTM process yields “four-in-one” auto suspension blade

Hutchison (Levallois Perret, France) caused a stir at JEC Europe with its Trifunctional Auto Suspension.

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Carbon/epoxy overbraided, RTM’d spring carrier beam

Munich Composites (Ottobrunn, Germany) won a JEC Innovation award in the Transportation Category for its carbon fiber air spring carrier part.

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Dow: 60-second epoxy is in range with liquid compression molding

Dow Automotive Systems (Horgen, Switzerland) made big news at JEC Europe 2014 with the introduction of VORAFORCE, its ultralow-viscosity, fast-cure epoxy for automotive molding.

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Epoxies

Hexion is Hexion again, with a 60-second epoxy in hand

Resins manufacturer Hexion (Columbus, OH, US), which has spent the past few years going by the name Momentive, is back to being called Hexion.

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RTM

Schuler composite press in operation at National Composites Centre

This press is producing parts within less than five minutes.

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Epoxies

The rise of HP-RTM

Decades of development have propelled it to prominence but its future demands industrial solutions for handling cost, complexity and process control.

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Mass Transit

Armored-vehicle and rapid-transit pods

Composite crew/passenger compartments drop vehicle weight but boost functionality.

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Braiding

Carbon fiber migrating into other vehicles

With the Hyundai Intrado and BMW 7 Series, carbon fiber appears poised to migrate even further into automotive structural applications.

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Adhesives

Field repair: Step-sanding tool kit and more

Onsite repairs to damaged composite parts, historically, have involved a time-consuming process, the success of which depends on the skill and experience of the repair technician and the availability of suitable tools.

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