Smart car comes with interior innovations in plastics
Flax/plastic composite and tailored LFT are used in the 2007 model design.
14 March 2007 – Plastics interior innovations have been applied with the latest 2007 design Smart Fortwo vehicle, involving natural fibre reinforced plastic and the use of long fibre reinforced thermoplastics (LFT).
The previous S-shape asymmetric instrument panel has been redesigned in the interest of occupant safety as a straight design and is now made in a “flax/plastic composite material”.
The structure and cover for a new storage area inside the lower part of the tailgate is made in selectively reinforced or “tailored” LFT plastic, developed by the Swiss company Esoro.
The E-LFT application is produced since January 2007 at a rate of 400 parts/day at Weber Fibertech at its new plant in Markdorf, which is in the area of Lake Constance in Southern Germany.
The new application for the 2007 Smart is the first industrial application for Esoro’s E-LFT technology and Esoro managing director Diego Jaggi told PRW.com that rear seat frames are under developemnt for other automotive OEMs.
With E-LFT parts typically weighing 30-50 per cent less than comparable steel ones and with cycle time below 60 seconds, Esoro says that the technique “makes large scale production of high-strength and lightweight composite parts affordable”.Tags: smartcar
14 March 2007 – Plastics interior innovations have been applied with the latest 2007 design Smart Fortwo vehicle, involving natural fibre reinforced plastic and the use of long fibre reinforced thermoplastics (LFT).
The previous S-shape asymmetric instrument panel has been redesigned in the interest of occupant safety as a straight design and is now made in a “flax/plastic composite material”.
The structure and cover for a new storage area inside the lower part of the tailgate is made in selectively reinforced or “tailored” LFT plastic, developed by the Swiss company Esoro.
The E-LFT application is produced since January 2007 at a rate of 400 parts/day at Weber Fibertech at its new plant in Markdorf, which is in the area of Lake Constance in Southern Germany.
The new application for the 2007 Smart is the first industrial application for Esoro’s E-LFT technology and Esoro managing director Diego Jaggi told PRW.com that rear seat frames are under developemnt for other automotive OEMs.
With E-LFT parts typically weighing 30-50 per cent less than comparable steel ones and with cycle time below 60 seconds, Esoro says that the technique “makes large scale production of high-strength and lightweight composite parts affordable”.Tags: smartcar
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