Gurit Wins Four-Year Automotive Components Supply Contract
13 September 2016
13 September 2016
Gurit has announced that it has been selected as the supplier for carbon fibre-based automotive body panels by a British premium automotive OEM.
According to Gurit, the total value of the four-year contract is at around CHF 15 million. Supply to the project is scheduled to start in June 2018.
Gurit explains that prototyping and development work for the project will be carried out at its technology centre in the UK, with volume production of the car parts being done at its new Hungarian plant using it novel press technology.
Project 12 has collaborated with Total Composite Solutions (TCS), the UK partner of Microtex, on automotive OEM projects for bespoke carbon parts.
Continental Structural Plastics (CSP) will install a sheet moulding compound (SMC) production line at its facility in Pouance, France, to support the need for its composite formulations in Europe.
Premium Aerotec, Faurecia Clean Mobility and Solvay have launched the research group IRG CosiMo: Composites for Sustainable Mobility, which will focus on the development of materials and process technologies to enable the high volume production of thermoplastic composites for the aerospace and automotive markets.
