contents n°82 Companies & Business 10 Hexagon plans to invest $2 million in Lincoln Edito ......................................3 GM joins center for automotive research at Stanford “ Point of view: quality & service .4 Thyssen Krupp’s InCar plus project High-quality products and excellent customer service are key to success “ Mauro Malanchini coMMercial leader - engineered Products - Fibers euroPe and asia, Johns Manville Agenda of Events ................. 8 - Put out your cigarettes - Both modern and traditional drums - An electric bicycle with a vintage touch 12 SGL Group and Samsung establish joint venture for Carbon Composite Materials Applications 13 Buses Composite cylinders for a new range of natural gas buses Index .................................. 65 In the world ........................ 66 In brief 15 UAV Triton’s first flight for US Navy 16 Offshore The first grid-connected offshore wind turbine 16 FeAture Automotive 25 Manufacturing Collaboration speeds up automotive manufacturing 28 Cost-effective manufacturing systems for composite parts 36 Body panel 47 Beam 38 Suspension 51 Urban vehicle 40 Wishbone 43 Seats 30 Introduction of new solutions for automotive mass production 33 Reinforcement New long-glass-fibre-reinforced polypropylene for automakers 34 New sheet metal-free structure World Rally Champion’s super-car benefits from lightweight composite body panels Isogrid-stiffened automotive suspension control arm Performance of steel, aluminium and thermoplastic composite beam structures Integral composite body structure for a light urban vehicle Thermoplastic composite wishbone: the future of automotive composites Thermoplastic composites for automotive seats 6 jec composites magazine / No82 July 2013 52