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Momentive Teams Up For New Composites

by Alexander H. Tullo
September 16, 2013 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 91, Issue 37

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Credit: Western
A lightweight automotive composite made at the Fraunhofer Project Centre for Composites Research.
This is a photo of a lightweight automotive composite made at Western University’s Fraunhofer Project Center for Composites Research.
Credit: Western
A lightweight automotive composite made at the Fraunhofer Project Centre for Composites Research.

Thermoset resins supplier Momentive will collaborate with the Fraunhofer Project Centre for Composites Research at the University of Western Ontario. The organizations will research high-volume, lightweight composites for the North American car industry. The center, which opened last year, is itself a collaboration between Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology and Western. In 2012, Momentive opened a transportation research and applications center in Germany.

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