DSM
Preferred engineering plastics supplier to Toyota Motorsport / Deal to enhance technology development
 DSM signs huge technology partnership agreement with Toyota Motorsport (Photo: DSM) |
DSM (Heerlen / The Netherlands; www.dsm.com) is partnering with Toyota Motorsport (TMG, Cologne / Germany; www.toyota-motorsport.com) under a framework technology agreement, whereby the Dutch group will act as the preferred material and product provider.
The agreement involves all DSM businesses that supply materials and technology to the automotive industry, notably engineering plastics, “Dyneema” UHMW-PE fibre and 3D printing, including “Somos” for stereolithography (SLA) and other technologies such as fused filament fabrication (FFF).
A high-performance development, testing and manufacturing company, one of TMG’s speciality areas is in additive manufacturing. Hugo da Silva, vice president of DSM’s additive manufacturing business and 3D printing, said, “We have already worked with Toyota Motorsport on optimising our new Somos Taurus for real-world motorsport applications and this agreement will enable us to collaborate even more closely.”
TMG will develop and pilot new engineering solutions using DSM’s high-performance materials and products. It will also test and evaluate DSM products and act as a test user for defined projects.
“DSM offers an array of materials that are ideally suited to high-performance applications in the automotive arena, and we believe that working together with TMG we will be able to expand our horizons even further,” said DSM Dyneema’s president, Golnar Motahari Pour. “DSM’s thermoplastics like “Stanyl”, “ForTii” and “Akulon” already have an important place in automotive, especially under the hood, but we are also moving quickly into thermoset composites.” Last year, the company introduced Dyneema Carbon, which it says improves the performance of pure carbon composites and makes further lightweighting and durability possible.
The agreement involves all DSM businesses that supply materials and technology to the automotive industry, notably engineering plastics, “Dyneema” UHMW-PE fibre and 3D printing, including “Somos” for stereolithography (SLA) and other technologies such as fused filament fabrication (FFF).
A high-performance development, testing and manufacturing company, one of TMG’s speciality areas is in additive manufacturing. Hugo da Silva, vice president of DSM’s additive manufacturing business and 3D printing, said, “We have already worked with Toyota Motorsport on optimising our new Somos Taurus for real-world motorsport applications and this agreement will enable us to collaborate even more closely.”
TMG will develop and pilot new engineering solutions using DSM’s high-performance materials and products. It will also test and evaluate DSM products and act as a test user for defined projects.
“DSM offers an array of materials that are ideally suited to high-performance applications in the automotive arena, and we believe that working together with TMG we will be able to expand our horizons even further,” said DSM Dyneema’s president, Golnar Motahari Pour. “DSM’s thermoplastics like “Stanyl”, “ForTii” and “Akulon” already have an important place in automotive, especially under the hood, but we are also moving quickly into thermoset composites.” Last year, the company introduced Dyneema Carbon, which it says improves the performance of pure carbon composites and makes further lightweighting and durability possible.
27.11.2017 Plasteurope.com [238339-0]
Published on 27.11.2017