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We constantly develop agility, flexibility and innovation

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Faurecia worldwide

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103,000 employees including 6000 engineers and technicians
based in 30 R&D centers in 34 countries
Faurecia Composite Technologies in France
€50 million in sales
350 employees
2 plants
2 R&D centres

The Composite Technologies division extends Faurecia's international technology. FCT
specializes in composite technologies for Class A body parts and structural parts for
automotive, in order to replace metal parts, and with the aim to increase resistance,
acoustic properties, comfort, fatigue. He develops his expertise using three main composite technologies : SMC, RTM and BMC. As the group is present and widely recognized
in the Bavarian region of Augsburg, in Germany, the Faurecia Composite Technologies
division will also be established there to increase the power of the cluster.

Academic partnerships
Ecole Centrale de Paris:
a prestigious supply chain Chair
The Group reinforced its expertise in
the optimization of assembly lines and
logistics through the creation of partnerships with the academic worlds in
Europe. These approaches have allowed
the company to develop lighter, more
standardized and more modular products than the competition and given it
benchmark price/performance ratios.
Faurecia has close association with
technology development partners to

increase technological capabilities and
even new products and applications.
For example, the Group is engaged in
a project with an industrial chair with
ECP (Ecole Centrale de Paris). The
mass production of highly diversified
products takes an increasingly important place in the industrial landscape
with the archetype of this mode of production, the automobile sector. Despite
the growing interest in industrial issues
related to product diversity, there is still
room for progress on assessing the impact of diversity on supply chain pro-

IRT Nantes: the "FORCE" project
In France, again, Faurecia carries out
research project with the technological
research institute IRT Jules Verne in
Nantes. This project is called FORCE
(Optimized and economic carbon fibre,
a consortium in which Faurecia participates with all the players involved in the
carbon fibre industry (from raw material supplier, parts maker to end user),
in the aim to make carbon fibre more
affordable for the mass market. "After
2020 we think to propose an economic
carbon fibre usable in large series at the
cost of 7 to 8 euros per kilogram", says
Jacques Hoffner. "Today the price is negotiated between 15 and 17 euros per kilo.
It is still too high."
The CO2 emission standards will
change in all Europe by 2020, to reach
the standard of 5 grams of CO2 per kilometer. Thereby, it is necessary to carry out a revolution on the production
lines because for the moment, the process time of the competing materials is
too slow for the production line. It is
necessary to overturn the historic automotive production methods of forming
and assembling metal parts to integrate
more and more composite parts.
The carbon fibres provide very interesting and unique mechanical properties,
incomparable to other materials, due
to the sets of tensions and weaving of
the fibres. Obviously, and the interest
is there, we must add that using carbon
fibres for automotive parts save up to
50% of the weight relative to steel for
structural and semi-structural parts.
From now on, the choices and innovations must concern the design of the
cars of tomorrow.

No110 January - February 2017

More information: www.faurecia.com

/ jec composites magazine

Feature Automotive

On work Verifying that the fibres are impeccably aligned

cesses. The value generated by a broad
portfolio of products is offset by the
costs of diversity. So, the work of this
Chair focuses on measuring the effects
of diversity on supply chain processes.
Understanding and measuring diversity
is a prerequisite for identifying and implementing levers of action to mitigate
the consequences.

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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017

Cover
Edito
Opinion: Mobility
Contents
NEWS
In brief
Startup competition
Construction & public transport
Investment
Agenda
BUSINESS
Trend
Startup booster
China
MANUFACTURING
RTM
WPC
Sandwich
Feature Automotive - El dorado, or a lure
3D printing
Cycle time
Raw materials
Reinforcements
Compression moulding
Compression moulding
Lightweighting
Interior part
SOLUTIONS
Marine
Motorcycle
Medical
In the world
TECHNOLOGY
OPLC
Draping
Damping
Index
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - Edito
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - Opinion: Mobility
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - 5
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - Contents
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - 7
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - In brief
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - Startup competition
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - 11
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - Construction & public transport
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - 13
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - Investment
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - 15
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - Agenda
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - 17
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - Trend
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - 19
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - Startup booster
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - China
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - 22
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - RTM
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - 24
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - WPC
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - Sandwich
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - 27
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - 3D printing
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - 29
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - Cycle time
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - 31
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - Raw materials
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - 33
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - 34
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - 35
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - Reinforcements
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - 37
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - Compression moulding
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - Compression moulding
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - Lightweighting
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - Interior part
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - Marine
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - 44
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - Motorcycle
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - Medical
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - In the world
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - OPLC
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - 49
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - 50
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - 53
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - Draping
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - 55
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #110 - January/February 2017 - Damping
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