Hoods, oil pans and decor at VDI plastics congress

摘要

The 2016 VDI Plastics in Automotive Engineering Congress, in Mannheim, Germany in April, provided a showcase for the latest automotive innovations and technologies using plastics and composites. "The first ever compression moulded CF prepreg hood in North America" was the application discussed by Dr Joseph J. Laux, EU composites business development and advanced engineering director at Magna Management in Cham, Switzerland. The hood application for the 2016 Cadillac ATS-V and CTS-V sedan cars uses heavy tow unidirectional CF (Zoltek, 50K) reinforced epoxide resin prepreg.