Tuesday, 22 May 2012
Here bigHead Bonding Fasteners Ltd, based in Dorset, UK, looks at the development of lightweight composite materials and how it is contributing to the growth of bonding fasteners.
The development of composites and plastics and their migration into applications habitually dominated by traditional materials such as wood and metal has been significant. Lighter, stronger, versatile and more mechanically stable, modern composite materials have found a home in almost every industrial sector. The issue of reducing weight or ‘light-weighting’ has become central to innovation in the automotive sector. High oil prices and increasing regulatory pressure to reduce carbon emissions will only enhance this trend. (…)
