LIGHTER AUTO COMPOSITES

摘要

"What we see in automotive is big pressure on lightweight, the OEMs are clearly driving towards lightweight concepts and at the moment the major pressure ... is on high-end composites," said Eugenio Toccalino, global market manager for Dow Automotive, in an interview at the JEC event. For body applications, he said, these are more epoxy driven, "because if you look in the body of the car, there is 300 kg of metal. Theoretically if you use carbon fibre composites, you can cut that weight by 50 percent," he said.