JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #121 - May 2018 - 8

NEWS

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10

ln brief
Report
JEC World 2018 gathered the whole composites industry in Paris
Planet
Awards
Startup
Innovations
Composites Challenge

Agenda

NEWS in brief

Opening

www.owenscorning.com

Magna launches Composites Centre of Excellence in Germany
Magna's new Composites Centre of Excellence in Esslingen, Germany, aims to help European automakers meet increasingly stringent emissions requirements with lightweight structures and exterior components made of advanced materials. The Centre will primarily focus on developing structural components, such as vehicle subframes, and exterior body parts, such as door panels and hoods. One is interested in investigating advanced composites for use in structural rear vehicle modules, and another wants to look at composites for
vehicle subframes. There is also interest in developing "class A" exterior panels using composites.The centre has a new
2,300-metric-ton Engel V-Due press that is suited for thermoset compression moulding of reinforced plastic or sheet
moulding compound materials. It enables development, demonstration and testing of full-size automotive parts using a
wide range of thermoset composite materials and compression moulding process settings. The press also links directly to
a testing laboratory where temperature cycles, climatic cycles, various static and dynamic tests, and microscopic examinations are performed.
www.magna.com

Expansion

www.faurecia.com

Owens Corning appoints Marcio Sandri
as President of Composites division
Arnaud Genis has decided to retire after serving as President,
Composites for the last seven years and having spent more than
30 years in the composites industry.
Mr. Sandri reports to Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Mike Thaman. Prior to this role, he served as Vice President,
Global Strategy and Operations for the company's Composites
business, was Vice President and Managing Director of Glass
Reinforcements, encompassing core
glass fibre production, technical
fabrics and specialty glass within the
Composites business. He also had
enterprise-wide responsibility for
operations and supply chain activity.
Since joining Owens Corning
in 2000, Mr. Sandri had several
commercial roles with responsibility
for the United States, Latin America,
Canada, and Asia Pacific. Before
Owens Corning, he worked at Dow
Chemical in Latin America and the
United States.

Appointement

Contract

Faurecia registers record order
for its seating business by BMW Group
This order represents the highest single order intake
ever for Faurecia in terms of sales volume. It includes
ju s t-i n-t i me
( JIT) assembly for 7 vehicles, as well
as seat structures for 10
vehicles
on
two major platforms: MINI and BMW 2 Series.
This represents a JIT assembly and seat frames business
for over 6 million vehicles.
To reduce the number of interfaces and complexity,
BMW opted for a vertical integration strategy, entrusting key components such as frames, covers and foams to
Faurecia, the current supplier for the JIT business.
Faurecia announced a record order intake of €62 billion
(three-year rolling - 2015-2017 - and that includes this
BMW order intake), up €9 billion versus 2014-2016, both
confirming its strong customer intimacy and its ability to
develop and produce breakthrough innovations.

Zoltek to increase production at Hungarian facility
By expanding operations at the Hungarian facility, Zoltek will increase the plant's production capacity by fifty percent to
15,000 tons produced annually. This will increase Zoltek 's global production capacity of its PX35 carbon fibre to a total
of 25,000 tons produced on an annual basis with production beginning in 2020. This expansion will cost approximately
130 million USD and will generate approximately 350 jobs in Hungary. The Hungarian Government will support the expansion with over eight billion HUF.
www.zoltek.com

jec composites magazine / N°121 May - June 2018

http://www.faurecia.com http://www.owenscorning.com http://www.magna.com http://www.zoltek.com

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