TRENDS
AUTOMOTIVE
NOVEMBER 2016
18 CompositesWorld
T O O L I N G
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NEW Smart Cauls
Enables:
·
Higher Throughput
·
Improved Quality
·
Lower Cost
For more information visit:
smarttooling.com/product/smart-caul
Low capital solution for
composite part manufacturing
INTERNATIONAL INC. EUROPE Sarl ASIA LTD ADVANCED MATERIALS LTD
Benefits:
• Embossed pattern
provides network of air
passageways, eliminating
the need for a separate
layer of breather.
• High strength and
elongation provides more
even pressure application
for better quality parts.
• Airdraw 2 offers an
improved, stiffer formula
that keeps air paths open
for better vacuum levels,
faster.
• Available up to 157" wide
(3.99m).
• Can be heat seamed for
larger requirements.
PRESENTS:
Airdraw 2 & Wrightlon
®
7400
Watch a video
on Airdraw 2 and
Wrightlon
®
7400
or go to the
"Media Center"
on our website.
Scan
this
Embossed Vacuum Bagging Films
At this year's
Association of
German Engineers
(VDI) conference in
Mannheim, which
focused on plastics
in automotive engi-
neering, Aliancys
(Schaffhausen,
Switzerland), Daimler
AG (Stuttgart,
Germany) and
Menzolit GmbH (Heidelberg/Rohrbach, Germany)
discussed their successful collaborative effort to improve
sheet molding compound (SMC) technology for use in
several Mercedes passenger cars. The resulting reduction
in production waste and improvement in SMC quality and
consistency made it possible to realize a new segment of
large Premium Class 1 components, including the decklid
of the Mercedes SL Roadster. Although outer body panels
for decklids are normally designed in two pieces (an upper
horizontal and a separate license plate segment), the SL
Roadster's decklid was envisioned as a one-piece solution,
SMC improvements in Europe reported
Source | Daimler AG