The collaboration, announced at JEC World in Paris, will apply Hankuk Carbon’s expertise in advanced materials and industrialisation, leveraging Dymag’s expertise in manufacturing lightweight carbon ...

Achieving high-volume, low-cost composite wheels. Wheel manufacturer Vision Wheel sees high potential for carbon fiber wheels in future electric and high-performance vehicles. Working with partners ...

Automotive supplier Lacks Enterprises Inc. has acquired a Kansas firm that makes carbon fiber composite wheels, in a bid to expand into luxury car wheel markets and build a footprint in an emerging ...

Composite materials have earned their way into cars and trucks, performing a variety of structural and semi-structural functions. Unit volumes, once limited to hundreds per model year, now ...

Almost two years after we told you about another carbon composite wheel, SABIC and Kringlan Composites have announced they're developing one. The companies say the material is a thermoplastic, not a ...

The past year has seen a lot of technology breakthroughs in engineering composites, especially those aimed at lowering cost and boosting processing speed of carbon composites for volume manufacturing, ...

Composites can be used to lower the weight of sports & leisure equipment, and bicycling is one of the fields that make the most of it. Bicycle-wheel specialist Mavic has developed an all-composite ...

Way back in the early 1970s, Michelin made a run of composite glass-fiber and resin wheels for Citroën's SM-based rally car. The first car equipped with them won its first race, the 1971 Morocco Rally ...

Carbon ThreeSixty is leading a project to design, develop and manufacture an ultra-low mass, robust, proof-of-concept carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) wheel for helicopters. Co-funded by ...

Behind a set of spotless glass doors on a small Deakin University campus in the small Australian city of Waurn Ponds, an hour southwest of Melbourne, Carbon Revolution creates what might be the most ...

Founded in 2015, the Composites Manufacturing Simulation Center (CMSC) of Purdue University has served as the Design Modeling and Simulation Technology Area of the Institute for Advanced Composites ...