Due to increasing requirements for efficiency and ecology interest in lightweight solutions for the automotive industry has been growing in recent times. The focus is especially on one process: Resin Transfer Moulding (RTM). Thanks to a new RTM center, Hennecke GmbH now offers sufficient scope to manufacture, test and develop high-performance parts until they are suitable for mass production. The Hennecke composite specialists can offer an important further development of the RTM technology that ensures unlimited suitability for mass production in terms of automation and cycle time: the High- Pressure RTM process (HP-RTM). Hennecke GmbH has been documenting the growth of composites in general and lightweight solutions in particular with constant research and development and the modular expansion of its product portfolio. Thus Hennecke regularly identifies new manufacturing processes and fields of application for producing and using composites. Apart from new drive concepts, reduced vehicle weight is an indispensable element to ensure more efficiency and a better energy balance in future automobile manufacture. In motor racing, lightweight construction has long provided for improved performance and less consumption so that it has increasingly found its way into automobile mass production. In the car body sector, automotive manufacturers meet these requirements by using fibre-reinforced structural components that are convincing both in terms of low weight and crash behaviour. In most cases, the Resin- Transfer-Moulding (RTM) method is used for this application.
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