Lightweight construction with multi-material solutions

Plastics-based multi-material solutions include injection overmoulding thermoplastic functional features onto compression moulded natural fibre reinforced plastic composites, illustrated by the OSI organic sheet injection process developed by machinery producer Frimo. For the Lexus GS car, Toyota Boshoku moulds door panels by SBI simultaneous back injection process, also at Toyota Boshoku Automotive Poland for BMW 4 series cars. SBI involves kenaf natural fibre reinforced polypropylene (PP)... To continue reading this story Click Here