Composite materials to reduce the weight of auto parts

Lightweight cars are a hot topic on a global scale. Recently, in order to achieve new fuel economy indicators, North American auto parts manufacturers and their plastic product manufacturers partners have made a variety of attempts. The industry generally believes that the transformation of automotive trim parts and a few components to composite materials is only a beginning.

At the International Association of Plastics Engineers Automotive Thermoplastics Polyolefins Conference held in early October, many automakers and suppliers stated: "The standards that truly measure the success of vehicles in light weight will be on a larger scale, reduce overall vehicle quality and save fuel. Losses and reducing carbon emissions are the ultimate goals."

Leon Jacobs, Director of Polypropylene's Global Business at Saudi Basic Industries Corporation, emphasized: “As for the future development trend of automotive materials, the industry has reached an unprecedented consensus on plastics steel. As the material supply developers, the only This opportunity will use more high-tech derivative materials to create a new generation of auto parts and at the same time promote the development of the entire plastics industry."

It is understood that starting in 2016, North American International will face higher fuel economy standards for the automotive industry. Will be implemented again with 54.5 miles per gallon. By 2025, the target will be less than 30 miles per gallon. At the same time, the EU is gradually implementing new emission control regulations.

This means that countries are adopting mandatory measures to limit the transitional use of raw materials and the large consumption of energy materials. If plastic suppliers cannot follow, they will face limited growth prospects and even face bottlenecks.

Plastics have become a good medicine to solve the urgent need. Has begun to win the application of many new business structures in the automotive industry. For example: front-end module carrier, engine cover, roof cover, car chassis, etc.

Brian Bradley, director of product engineering at Magna International Inc. in Ontario, believes that the resulting parts of the future car will incorporate more materials, more elastomers and thermoplastic trophies.

"We need to find new ways to improve processing technology and to develop more functional materials that will be more developed on an existing basis," said Brian Bradley.

The automotive industry has made great progress in the introduction of plastic materials. In order to create a green earth and achieve sustainable development, we expect more and more plastics to be used in more automotive projects through the combination of high technology and new technology. We believe that plastic materials will contribute to the development of structural changes in auto parts. .

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