New light weighting technology in heavy duty vehicle chassis system
“Kordsa introduced its new light weighting technology in heavy duty vehicle chassis system including structural health monitoring systems, developed together with Ford Otosan at Jec World 2019. Among all the products and technologies showcased by Kordsa during the Expo, the light weighting technology in heavy duty vehicle chassis system, developed in co-operation with Ford Otosan, caught the most attention. Kordsa and Ford Otosan also presented this new light weighting technology at “Composites Exchange” conference on March 13th within the “Automotive & Transportation” track.
In his speech at the Innovation Awards ceremony of Jec World 2019, Kordsa’s COO of Composites, Murat Arcan said that: "As Kordsa, we put innovation at the heart of every step we take. In parallel to our vision to reinforce life, we are the explorers who work with passion and always seek for better. We make investments, form partnerships, keenly support open innovation in an effort to contribute to a sustainable future. In this regard, together with Sabanci University we have inaugurated Composite Technologies Center of Excellence in 2016, which is an ecosystem that brings academia and industry together. The Center is the meeting point where basic research, applied research, technology development, product development, entrepreneurship, and production take place under the same roof. Since then, the Center serves like an innovation hub, bringing novelties to the industry.”
Kordsa’s COO also underlined the outputs and ongoing projects at Composite Technologies Center of Excellence, and said: “At this innovation hub, we have recently developed a new fast cure press curable prepreg system, namely CM14 resin, which eliminates waterspot and whitespot problems thus providing high visual clarity. The new light weighting technology in heavy duty vehicle chassis system, developed in co-operation with Ford Otosan, is an unique in the industry developed in the Center. Our innovative leaf spring for heavy duty vehicles over 16 tons also includes structural health monitoring systems used for process optimization, part qualification and online health monitoring purposes.