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Article: Nylon integrated structures save weight and improve safety in cars.(engineering materials)
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- British Plastics & Rubber
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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TWO recent European car models demonstrate technology developed with Lanxess to save weight and improve safety.
The new Audi TT is the first car to have a front end made with a plastic-aluminium composite structure, reducing weight by 15 per cent over an equivalent steel-based hybrid: steel has always hitherto been the metal component in hybrid front ends.
The structural component consists of three sheets of aluminium that are over-moulded with glass fibre-reinforced Durethan BKV 30 nylon 6, a material already well-established in hybrid technology.
The aluminium hybrid front end not only helps to lower fuel consumption, it also improves the ...