Beetle - UF - BIP (Oldbury) Limited

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Bayer and Thieme Real Material Partners
...e production of special trim is just one of Thieme's areas of expertise. Applications here include column trim, roof frame and the production of airbag covers. Thieme parts are found in the Mercedes S class, several Audi models and VW's New Beetle. Service Leading to Efficient Production To find combinations of moulded part geometries and polyurethane formulations that are suitable for practical use, Thieme runs its own polymers laboratory. It also employs the latest 3D-CAD systems for...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Modified Polyphenylene Ether (PPE)
... Perree is commercial director for Noryl at GE Plastics, Bergen op Zoom/Netherlands. Contact: henk.perree@gep.ge.com Fig. 1. Bumper fascias in a (PP+PPE) blend still display high elasticity even after painting Fig. 2. The body panels of the Beetle in (PA+PPE) blend offer high stiffness, impact strength and heat resistance Fig. 3. Parts in (PA+PPE) blends offer dimensional stability and chemical resistance

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Perfect optical symbiosis
... born in 1958, has worked as a freelance journalist since July of 2000, for instance in the area of paints and coatings. Contact: rothbarth@yahoo.com Fig 1. Design as an all in one casting - outwardly the fenders, bumpers and tank cover of the new Beetle are not recognised as being made of plastic Fig 2. Robots have optimised the painting process (photo: DuPont Performance Coatings) Fig 3. Coating bumpers (photo: DuPont Performance Coatings) Fig 4. Flaming robot in the DuPont Performance Co...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Stations in the Life of an Injection Moulding Firm
...as well as its listing as systems- and development supplier to important customers. Moreover, this is also shown in the awards and tributes paid the company, such as being awarded a prize for the series-production start-up of the pillars for the New Beetle by VW, or by receiving the Automotive Division Award 97 from the Society of Plastics Engineering. Integrated Special Methods and Down-stream Processes About 80 machines ranging in clamping forces from 1000 to 22000 kN, are employed in the fi...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Trends to Watch: Roof Systems: Innovation Generates New Momentum
...t the same time it is clear that automakers without retractable hardtops are exploiting their market potential in the convertible segment only incompletely. For instance, neither VW, Audi nor BMW have succeeded with their softtop vehicles (New Beetle Cabrio, BMW Z4 and Audi A4) in reaching the sales figures of the Mercedes SLK or the Peugeot 206 CC and 307 CC (Table2). How difficult it is to sell sports cars without retractable hardtops is currently being experienced by Porsche. While the Merce...

Kunststoffe international, 2006-07-04, Company History (3): The Road to Global Player
...rld-class Machine Line . With the Allrounder models 221 and 305 in the 1970s, Arburg introduced the injection moulding machines that provided the foundation of business for the following years. These models, affectionately known as the “VW Beetle among injection moulding machines”, were characterised by their ease of operation and universal applicability. The Allrounder 305 in particular, a toggle machine with four tiebars and 800 kN clamping force, attracted attention in its various versions, a...

Kunststoffe international, 2008-11-20, More Small Cars
... (end of 2011) and the A1 Convertible (spring 2012), BMW the City (end of 2011), Mercedes a mini A-Class (spring 2012) and BMW-Mini a Mini-SUV (end of 2011). VW is also intending to position its small Mini-Beetle und up! cars as premium vehicles (both spring 2011), and Toyota is planning the same for its IQ (start of 2009). Fiat has already shown with its Fiat 500 that this is feasible for a high-volume manufacturer. Small cars have become ...

Kunststoffe international, 2011-09-23, Fast Systems for Lighter Automobiles
...ut 0,4 liters less fuel consumed per 100 km or about 10 g less carbon dioxide emission. However, it is unlikely that traditional approaches in lightweight construction will suffice: When Volkswagen introduced the Golf I in the mid 1970s, the zippy Beetle successor weighed about 750 kg. Some 30 years later, today’s Golf V has gained weight dramatically, and now tips the scales at more than 1,200 kg – no talk of less weight on the road. Higher demands for comfort, and increasing safety requirement...

Kunststoffe international, 2012-01-30, Impressions of Hall 11
...ally, for instance, when automakers their models and replace components with more functionally capable ones. Thus, the model maker Robert Hofmann GmbH, Lichtenfels, Germany, ordered parts for pilot series production of the new VW Beetle scheduled for introduction in spring 2011, specifically, a quantity of 300 to replace the turn signal with a module containing fog lights and a module employing LED technology for the third brake light (Fig. 6). High-level research also employs direct rapid manuf...

Kunststoffe international, 2012-04-20, Color Diversity
...ne of the newer types, which, as described, derive their name from the physical phenomenon of “interference”. This phenomenon is often found in nature in beetle shells, butterfly wings or snail shells. Since the light waves are refracted and reflected in different layers, fading is virtually excluded. One discovery in the Messel pit fossil site near Darmstadt, Germany, shows a beetle in its full colorful splendor even after 47 million years. Attempts to produce this iridescent effect artificiall...

Kunststoffe international, 2014-04-14, Quality Control: Bolted Joints Protected from the Elements
...ing, and quality documentation in the injection molding department. The system ensures the flexibility in order handling demanded by customers – and can do a lot more. While battling with heavily corroded wheel nuts during a wheel change on his VW Beetle, Horst Thiel decided to get more deeply involved with the corrosion protection of bolts. Following extensive tests more than 50 years ago, the founder of Radolid Thiel GmbH developed and manufactured the well-known “rally caps” for wheel nuts. F...

Kunststoffe international, 2015-05-21, 150 Years of BASF
... risk of blue sky research, and gives companies the security of developing precisely what the customer requires. For example, BASF Coatings GmbH, Münster, Germany, has a longstanding partnership with Volkswagen AG. Even the legendary Beetle received its gloss and protection from BASF paints in 1966. In 1997, BASF Coatings became the first official system partner for painting in a VW factory. BASF also developed plastic parts jointly with Volkswagen, starting with fuel tanks, which were used in a...

Kunststoffe international, 2018-03-09, "You Have to Have Gasoline in Your Veins"
...26 years you have been working for VW here in Wolfsburg, Germany. Why do you find automotive technology fascinating?Thomas Drescher: You have to have gasoline in your veins. That began for me as a schoolboy when a friend and I restored an old VW Beetle. Because I’m also a fan of Northern Germany, I’ve always wanted to work for the most northerly German car maker of all.Kunststoffe: Would you please circumscribe your current responsibilities in your department Group Research?Drescher: I lead a sm...

Kunststoffe international, 2020-08-11, White without Titanium-Dioxide
... there are several examples of white materials where a different scattering mechanism is utilized. Air-filled cavities instead of pigment particles act as scattering centers. The best-known example of this principle in biophotonics is the white beetle Cyphochilus insulanus (Title figure), which originates from Southeast Asia [6, 7]. Its white color probably serves as a camouflage, since it lives in a shady environment on a suitably colored fungus [8]. The upper side of its body is almost complet...