Aluminium as an engineering material is inseparably connected to lightweight automotive design. At the Amap Forum in April in Aachen, Germany, scientific and industry experts demonstrated clearly that the development is not standing still and that the lightweight potential of non-ferrous metals is far from being tapped with examples from innovative successes in research and collaboration in practice. 14 entrepreneurs from industry and five institutions of the RWTH Aachen University joined together to form the Amap Open Innovation Research cluster. The topics of the interdisciplinary collaboration range from product and material development, modelling and metallurgic process technology to new production technologies. Light metals such as aluminium and magnesium are best placed to fulfil the increasing demands of present and future vehicle generations: compliance with maximum emission limits for cars with conventional internal combustion engines and consumer demand for a wider range of electric vehicles at affordable prices.
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