EconCore’s thermoplastic, honeycomb technology is now being introduced into two of the world’s largest automotive manufacturers by non-woven specialists, Fynotej.
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Fynotej announce two new automotive OEM contracts using EconCore’s honeycomb core technology
The Mexican company have secured two major contracts. One contract is for a completely new, not-yet-launched project and the other for a current, already-in-production platform.
Fynocore is the brand name for Fynotej’s continuous honeycomb panel technology, licensed from EconCore in Belgium. The product is extremely lightweight yet offers incredible strength and, as an overall process, delivers value for money against conventional solutions. Its lightweight properties can contribute to greater fuel savings and a reduction in CO2. The product is typically made from 30 per cent recycled content.
Tomasz Czarnecki, COO at EconCore, said “The ability to continuously ‘extrude’ honeycomb sandwich panels cost effectively, combined with the perspective to choose out of many material choices for both, core and the skins, provides great optimisation potential and opens up countless applications that the technology is being used for.”
In this automotive application, the honeycomb core panel is made from polypropylene. Fynotej also uses a proprietary in-line lamination process that can laminate panels with non-woven automotive carpets by thermofusion without adhesives. This can result in further savings.
Fynotej Sales Manager Fabiola Carbajal added: “We’re excited about the range of applications the honeycomb technology can be used for, with its excellent lightweight and strength characteristics. It is extremely versatile as it can be tuned to fit customer’s requirements while, for the applications requiring it, the thermoplastic honeycomb panels can also be effectively compression moulded to more complex geometries.”
The technology fits into the market trends with regards to sustainability, offering an easily recyclable lightweight product based on minimal amount of thermoplastic material, where this thermoplastic material creating the honeycomb panel is often already recycled.
Czarnecki concluded: “What Fynotej are doing with the technology today, not just in the automotive sector, but also in packaging and construction, is a perfect demonstration of the sheer versatility of the technology.”