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Jan 8, 2016

TRUCKMAKERS NEWS * USA: Volvo's

* Virginia - Next stop for green composites: Truck panels
-- Someday that big rig you see on the highway will be greener – at least in environmental terms if not in actual hue. That’ll be thanks, in part, to composites... A case in point comes from Volvo Group Trucks Technology. The company, which has its U.S. headquarters in Greensboro, N.C., is the research, engine development and product design arm for the Volvo Group, a leading manufacturer of trucks, busses and construction equipment. Trucks must get leaner for a variety of reasons, says Saeil Jeon, technical lead for materials for advanced technology and research... Jeon has been working with resin manufacturer Arkema, which has its U.S. headquarters in King of Prussia, Pa., to develop and characterize composite solutions for eventual use in truck body panels. One solution involves recycled carbon fiber. Jeon says that virgin carbon fiber is currently too expensive for ground transportation, but recycled carbon fiber (rCF) has good mechanical properties and is cost effective... Volvo’s research efforts have focused on a dry woven mat that includes a polypropylene resin system reinforced with rCF. Together with other materials and manufacturing changes, the result could be a 29 percent weight reduction...
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