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- In brief ......................... p10
Hexagon plans to invest
$2 million in Lincoln
GM joins center for
automotive research at
Stanford
Thyssen Krupp’s
InCar plus project
CCP Composites involved
in a project led by Total and
Peugeot
Safran and Hexcel sign a
strategic agreement for all
Leap-1 engines
GE Aviation to build a new
composite facility in U.K. to
support A350XWB produc
tion
- The effervescence of JEC
Asia 2013 reflects a very
dynamic Asian market . p12

Once fully established, thermoplastic and
thermoset composites will account for a
market volume of about €2 billion in the
long term.
BASF is expanding its activities in the
field of engineering plastics to include a
completely new approach called Ultracom. This is a package of three components: continuous fiber reinforced semifinished products, adapted overmolding
compounds and the complementing
engineering support. The key innovations in this new approach are laminates
based on woven fabrics and unidirectional
(UD) tapes that are fully impregnated
with Ultramid or Ultradur, the polyamide
and PBT materials from BASF. These
thermoplastic composites are being
enhanced in a development cooperation
together with TenCate, the globally active
fiber-reinforced composites manufacturer,
and Owens Corning, the leading supplier
of glass fibers.
www.basf.com

Hexagon plans to invest $2 million in
Lincoln
The North American market for large
gas-powered vehicles continues to grow
rapidly because of the low price of natural
gas resulting from shale gas developments.
Then the Board of Hexagon Composites
ASA has discussed the situation and decided in principle to invest in a further in-

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crease in capacity in Lincoln. The planned
production line is expected to once again
double the production capacity for CNG
cylinders for the bus and truck market.
This corresponds to four times the capacity in 2012. The new production line is
expected to be operational towards the
www.hexagon.no
end of 2014.
Dr. Markus Lienkamp to support
the specialist jury of the eCarTec
Award
He will support the top-notch jury of
the eCarTec Award. Prof. Dr. Lienkamp, board member of the Association of German Engineers and Head of
the Science Center electric mobility and
of the CREATE project Singapore, is
specialized in the research of new vehicle
concepts in the field of electric mobility.
The team will evaluate all submissions
according to criteria, such as scientific/
technical performance, innovation, safety,
sustainability and feasibility; In various
categories including electric car, electric
motorbike, electric utility vehicle, drive
technology, system electrics, testing systems, storage technology, system integration, energy, infrastructure, connection
technology, product concept/vision as
well as for the special category sustainable
mobility concepts.

Announcement

BASF enters the market of
composite semi-finished parts for
the automotive sector
The weight saving trend in the automotive sector is becoming increasingly
important as the year 2020 approaches – this is when the fleet CO2 emissions
of European automobile manufacturers
must comply with significantly more
stringent requirements.

Development

Companies & Business

in brief

www.ecartec.de

GM joins center for automotive
research at Stanford
General Motors is joining the Center for
Automotive Research at Stanford University, its latest effort to mine the best and
brightest ideas and recruit top students
studying toward careers in science, technology, engineering and math.
The Center for Automotive Research at
Stanford is a community of faculty and
students from a range of disciplines aimed
at discovering, building, and deploying
critical ideas and innovations for the next
generation of cars and drivers. Unique in
its infrastructure, CARS provides shared
resources for research, teaching, student
project teams and new educational initiatives across many research centers, including the law and business schools.
www.gm.com

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