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Inoplast paves plastic inroad into truck radiator grills
Automotive parts and systems supplier Inoplast (Lyon, France), a wholly owned subsidiary of Plastic Omnium, claims to be the first to commercially mold a polyamide reinforcement beam for truck radiator grills, replacing a metal beam.
MPW Staff
April 6, 2009
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Plastic beams for truck radiator grills reduce system costs by 30% and part weight by 10%.
Automotive parts and systems supplier Inoplast (Lyon, France), a wholly owned subsidiary of Plastic Omnium, claims to be the first to commercially mold a polyamide reinforcement beam for truck radiator grills, replacing a metal beam. The part is in production on an unidentified range of trucks, and helps reduce system costs by 30% and part weight by 10% compared with an equivalent metal beam.For these parts, Inoplast specified Technyl Star AFX polyamide 6.6 supplied by Rhodia Polyamide. The material’s supplier also helped the project along with its multi-scale modeling (MMI) simulation program, a proprietary tool that Rhodia says can more accurately predict the behavior of injection molded polyamide parts by taking glass fiber orientation into consideration in structural calculations. —[email protected]
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