On September 20th/21st 2016 at the IKA Aachen Body Engineering Days, Dr. Michael Effing will give a paper about Lightweight Class A automotive body panels: A bonnet hood made with "Crush Core Wet pressing Sandwich technology".  This new technology has been developed by Magna Steyr in cooperation with Hennecke and Rühl Puromer. Katcon is the exclusive licensee for it in Europe and the Americas. This strategic partnership has been supported by AMAC GmbH, representing these companies at the event. You can read the abstract here.

Picture: Signing the exclusive license (from left to right): Mr. Fernando Turner (CEO Katcon Advanced Materials) and Mr. Günter Wolfsberger (Product Manager Reinforced Plastics at Magna Steyr Fahrzeugtechnik)