The Center for Automotive Research (CAR) has launched the Coalition of Automotive Lightweighting Materials (CALM) which will aim to accelerate the development of mixed-material solutions that will reduce vehicle weight.
04 February 2012
The call for papers for this year's Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) Automotive Composites Conference & Exhibition (ACCE) has been announced.
31 January 2012
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23 January 2012
A Danish project has been granted DKr1.6 million by the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation for research on a mass production method for high quality automotive composite components.
16 January 2012
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09 January 2012
The Pewano team from Sweden entered the 2012 Dakar Rally in a Volvo XC60 RR car with a composite body built using TeXtreme® spread tow carbon fabrics manufactured by Oxeon AB.
06 January 2012
The following 5 news articles published in 2011 were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website during the year.
03 January 2012
Reinforced Plastics would like to wish all our readers a Happy New Year.
01 January 2012
Lightweight automotive construction will be one of the topics discussed at the International VDI Conference: Plastics in Automobile Manufacture taking place in Mannheim, Germany, on 21-22 March 2012.
30 December 2011
Epic Electric Vehicles (Epic EV) has be selected to produce lightweight composite bodies for the new DeLorean Motor Company electric vehicle (DMC-EV) slated for production in 2013.
21 December 2011