Thursday, February 24, 2011

Audi relies on carbon fiber

After Lamborghini, Audi also decides to push the accelerator on the carbon fiber material that provides great prince performance in terms of strength and lightness together. In this direction should be from the house of the partnership signed with the Ingolstadt company Voith sector, which aims to make carbon fiber reinforced materials to be used on the cars of tomorrow.

From this alliance will bring other materials such as fiber reinforced plastics and carbon fiber composites environmentally friendly materials to integrate with existing alternatives. "The carbon fiber offers advantages in terms of weight and resistance, which we use today, for example, the Audi R8 or Audi RS3 - says Rupert Stadler, Chairman of the Board of Audi - Now we intend to rely on these same advantages for the mass production: our cooperation with Voith therefore focuses on concrete projects.

" The rest of the company is active in the fields of energy, oil, paper, raw materials, transportation and automotive industries, using carbon fiber reinforced machinery industry. Audi on the other hand confirms the interest of wanting to bet on a combination of lightweight materials including aluminum, steel and magnesium, the use of which is designed and developed by Lightweight Audi Design Center, design center, mostly at the production plant in Neckarsulm.

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