Under the patronage of Composites Germany (regrouping the trade associations AVK, CFK Valley Stade, VDMA and Carbon Composites), a partner symposium has taken place at AZL in Aachen on May 20th 2014, gathering more than 100 participants of the member companies. The event was opened by Dr. Michael Effing (Chairman) and Fank Peters from the Board of Composites Germany.

During this day, industrial spokespersons gave insight on their vision of the industry and the way forward, as well as on new opportunities for lightweight material.

With the goal to set-up and develop cooperations, focussing on the automated production of integrated systems along the entire composite value-chain, individual and tailor-made business meetings were facilitated for the participating industrial bodies as well as research institutions. Participating companies qualified this as an extremely successful and fruitful professional exchange.