Mass production of fibre-reinforced plastic components for structural applications

The production costs of fibre-reinforced plastic components must be significantly reduced before such components can enter the mass market. At the RWTH Aachen University, the Institute for Plastics Processing (IKV), the Institute for Textile Technology (ITA) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology (IPT) established the FOR 860 group of researchers, with the aim of developing new process chains that would allow the mass production of such plastic components for structural applications.