Last week a few hundred engineers and designers from major German OEMs and Tiers gathered in the Bavarian town of Würzburg at the 7th LeichtbauGipfel (German for Lightweight Summit) to discuss how lightweight design impacts the vehicles we drive everyday. … Read More
A few weeks back, we shared the news of Bugatti’s development of the world’s largest functional titanium component produced by additive manufacturing, the brake caliper used on the Chiron. Check out this video showing how it was made:
BAM wants to manufacture tools for the first time under zero gravity conditions using 3D printing. Together with the Clausthal University of Technology (CUT) and the DLR Institute of Composite Structures and Adaptive Systems in Braunschweig, BAM is testing its … Read More
Roush—the Michigan-based product developer—is the first service supplier in North America to install the Concept Laser Xline 2000R, the largest powderbed metal additive manufacturing system of its kind. The acquisition of the Xline 2000R aligns with the company’s endeavor to … Read More
Meritor has announced it has earned Heavy Duty Trucking (HDT) magazine’s 2018 Top 20 Product Award for its 14X™ HE high efficiency tandem drive axle. The award honors the most innovative and significant new products that address industry issues and … Read More
SABIC, a global leader in the chemical industry, has released the results of a recent lifecycle assessment of passenger car side doors using hybrid material solutions including laminates made with its continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composite (CFRTC), the UDMAX™ GPP 45-70 … Read More
Altair will present its comprehensive technology and expertise for the design, optimization, and simulation of composite structures and materials at this year’s JEC World, the largest international composites industry show, March 6-8 in Paris. The Altair-hosted opening day conference session for … Read More
Novelis, the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, today announced supply of its premium aluminum in the new 2018 Jeep® Wrangler. The use of lightweight, high-strength aluminum for closures, which includes parts of the doors, fenders, swing gate, and windshield … Read More
In the newly opened 3D-Printing Lab for Metals and Structural Materials at the Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institut, EMI, researchers have investigated how resource- efficient an Additive Manufacturing process is when lightweight aluminum components are manufactured using additive methods. They … Read More
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