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truck

Innovating and developing new FRP
materials for growth markets
Fibre-reinforced plastics (FRP) are conquering
increasingly more markets in future industrial
sectors. Very few construction material markets
are flourishing to the same extent as composites
globally. As the trend towards lightweight design
continues worldwide, composites are increasingly opening up new fields of application.

Michael Ertel
Media and public relations
Lamilux Composites GmbH

owever, the great potential of composite
materials is not achieved of its own accord since
innovations are anything
but self-selling items. The
wide range of high-performance composite plastics is
growing at Lamilux - a leading European producer of
fibre-reinforced plastics -
thanks to intensive research
and development work.
The company is currently
causing furore in the sector with the world's first
carbon-reinforced plastic
(CRP) production system

using a continuous flat
sheet process designed for
mass production. The international business consulting firm Frost and Sullivan
presented the family-run,
medium-sized business
with its Product Innovation
Award for this system in
2012.
The Lamilux Carbon Xtreme CRP can be manufactured in sheets and panels
between 1 and 5 mm thick.
With this high-strength,
yet very light material, the
company is supplying a
component for lightweight
construction which can be
used in car bodies, electric
vehicles and trailers - in
sandwich underbody structures, for example.

Light materials for
optimum stability and
resistance
Focussing on the high
mechanical stresses in
the commercial vehicle

Fig. 1: Lightweight, yet highly resistant, Lamilux carbon- and glassfibre-reinforced composites are found in all sections of this truck body
- roofing, side walls and flooring

industry, the company has
developed the fibre-reinforced High Strength X-treme
laminate. Used in side walls,
roofing and floors, this
laminate contains a high
proportion of reinforcement glass fibres arranged
in a unidirectional, bidirectional, tridirectional or
multi-directional alignment
in the material. The result
is an extremely strong and
rigid composite, which

About Lamilux

also exhibits a low specific
weight.
In Lamilux High Impact,
the emphasis is on a long
service life and robust resistance to occasional impacts
in outdoor applications
combined with a high-quality appearance. Developed
as a versatile top face sheet
material for sandwich panels in commercial vehicle
and caravan construction, it
unites the positive characte-

Lamilux Composites GmbH has been producing fibre-reinforced
composites for about 60 years. Thanks to its technologically
advanced continuous manufacturing process, large manufacturing capacities and wide product range, this medium-sized
company is a leading European composites producer. Lamilux
supplies customers around the globe in a wide range of sectors, such as construction, automotive and recreational vehicles, refrigerated store room and cell construction, and many
other industrial sectors. In 2012, Lamilux and its 600 employees achieved a turnover of 158 million euros. The family-managed company is based in Rehau, Bavaria (Germany).

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