Automotive manufacturers are closely focusing on ways to drop the overall body weight of any vehicle. Composites continue to stand at the forefront of this endeavor for their remarkable lightweighting capabilities as well as their strength. One of the biggest challenges in using composites is that most equipment used to create automotive parts can be very expensive.
A Danish startup company – ECOmove – believes that their innovative technology allows for the creation a of lightweight carbon fiber chassis without having to spend millions of dollars on expensive tooling and special equipment. The company’s new technology is known as Qstrung. “It [Qstrung] offers manufactures and designers the possibility of working with composite materials like carbon fiber right from the start, offering more freedom in shaping, economy and in the time it takes to build the first vehicle models,” says Mikkel Steen Pedersen, development manager at ECOmove.
