Automotive
SGL offers high-performance organosheet and thermoplastics for overmolding
“Thermoplastic toolbox” includes LFT, UD tapes, woven semi-finished sheets and carbon/glass hybrids in PA and polyolefins for automotive and other high-volume applications.
Read MoreSPE names finalists for automotive awards competition
The Automotive Division of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) announced the finalists for its 47th-annual Automotive Innovation Awards Competition, the oldest and largest recognition event in the automotive and plastics industries.
Read More
Carbon-Kevlar Hinge
Besting metal hardware in weight, thickness, 3X load capacity and 1 million fatigue cycles with no degradation.
Watch
Highlights: SPE ACCE 2017
The Society of Plastics Engineers Automotive Composites Conference and Exhibiton (SPE ACCE), held Sept. 6-8 in Novi, MI, US, remains the composites industry’s go-to event for the latest on technology and equipment for automotive composites design, tooling and fabrication.
Read More
Tackling the traceability of composite materials
Have you ever looked outside an airplane window during in-flight turbulence and wondered how strong the wings really are and how much load they can take?
Read More
Volvo performance brand features carbon fiber bodies
Volvo launches its Polestar performance brand, the first vehicle of which, the hybrid Polestar 1, will feature a carbon fiber body structure. The Polestar brand is launch with three vehicles, all either hybrid or all-electric.
Read More
Clemson students design new Mini vehicle
Students at the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR, Clemson, SC, US) unveiled their newest Deep Orange concept vehicle, sponsored by the BMW Group (Munich, Germany).
Read More
Automated preforming: Intelligent automation in pick-and-place systems
Layups go industrial with hand-like grippers that can fold fabric or prepreg into corners and robot-mounted cameras that inspect from fabric to cut plies to fiber gaps in final preforms.
Read More
IACMI officially opens new innovation facility in Detroit
Two years in the works, the IACMI Vehicles Scale-Up Facility offers the automotive industry a composite materials and manufacturing development innovation center.
Read More
CW Talks checks in with Ford's Patrick Blanchard
The latest episode of CW Talks: The Composites Podcast has been posted and is ready for listening. This week, we check in with Patrick Blanchard, global technical leader –composites, at Ford Motor Co.
Read More