Grupo Antolin, (Burgos, Spain), a global supplier of technological solutions for car interiors, presents the first headliner substrate produced by thermoforming a PU foam with materials made from ...
The VISION EQXX is the result of a mission Mercedes-Benz (Stuttgart, Germany) set themselves to break through technological barriers across the board and to lift energy efficiency to new heights. It ...
The Finnish entrepreneur and guitar maker Ari-Jukka Luomaranta introduces a new way to travel in style – the Kinner-car, a modern retro-style velomobile. The Kinner is a two-seat four-wheel ...
Future Market Insights (FMI), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, has forecasted the Automotive Bioplastics
Market to grow with a year on year growth of 10.3 % in 2022 reaching a value of about USD 687.5 M ...
The amount of plastics used in the production of a car is over 20 % of its weight, excluding car tyres. The automotive sector production, despite the increasing use of advanced technologies and the ...
The automotive industry continuously strives to improve the driving range of cars. Whether being per litre of petrol for a combustion engine or in kilowatt-hour (kWh) for electrically powered ...
Swiss cleantech company Bcomp from Fribourg develops sustainable lightweighting solutions for high-performance applications. Its award-winning approach to applying the latest composites knowledge to ...
The automotive industry is increasingly working on aligning vehicle production with the principles of sustainability. The development of appropriate materials plays a decisive role in this process. ...
Every year, Netherland-based student company TU/ecomotive produces an electric car with a team of 21 BA students from the Eindhoven University of Technology, in the aim of showing the world that the ...
Lingrove, the San Francisco, USA, based biocomposite manufacturer has set its eyes on the automotive market with their flagship material Ekoa® Surface. Originally developed as a lightweight ...
In recent years, the automobile industry has been undergoing a once-in-a-century transformation period, with new technological innovations collectively called CASE (Connected, Autonomous, Shared ...
The global pandemic that defined 2020 triggered a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions due to lockdowns and stay-at-home measures which dramatically, albeit temporarily, decreased the use of ...
Fibre reinforced polymers (FRPs) are predominantly made of mineralic or synthetic fibres, such as glass or carbon, and a petrochemically sourced thermosetting resin or thermoplastic matrix. However, ...
Natural fibre reinforced polymers have been used for decades in particular in the European automotive industry for semi-structural applications like door panels and roof stiffenings [1]. Currently, a ...
Who doesn’t remember the image of your grandmother sitting in front of the fireplace knitting socks or sweaters? At the same time the itchy skin irritation and the unpleasant scent are also what we ...
A car made from plant fibres? A group of 22 students from the Eindhoven University of Technology, in the Netherlands, have made it happen. Last year they produced Lina, the world’s first structural ...
ELIX ABS-NF, an innovative material development from ELIX Polymers, is a wood-fibre reinforced ABS that was created as part of the company’s strategy to move towards a more sustainable product ...
In December 2009, aiming to develop its expertise into a sustainable competitive advantage and thus to contribute to the profitability of the company and enhance customer satisfaction, Renault ...
Biobased materials derived from plant residues are opening up exciting opportunities for environmentally-responsible products. As trendsetters like biobased epichlorohydrin (ECH), bio-succinic acid ...
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