Bond-Laminates at JEC World, New Applications in Mass Production with Tepex

Bond-Laminates GmbH, the manufacturer of Tepex and a subsidiary of specialty chemicals company LANXESS, will be putting Tepex’s new large-scale production applications right at the center of its activities at the 2019 JEC World Composites Show & Conference in Paris on March 12–14, 2019, Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center, hall 5, stand N33. Owing to high demand for Tepex – primarily from the automotive and IT industries – LANXESS is currently carrying out a major expansion of its production facilities for the structural material in Brilon, Germany. As Bonefeld comments, “We are on schedule to have two additional production lines up and running by mid-2019.” The new applications for Tepex in lightweight automotive design include door module carriers for a German mid-size vehicle, front end carriers of SUVs (sport utility vehicles) for the US market and rear seats for a German luxury car. One example of materials currently under development comes in the form of Tepex product types made from recycled fibers in a matrix of recycled thermoplastic material. One example of a new processing technology opening up new areas of application for Tepex is a hybrid manufacturing process. Typical applications for Tepex in the IT industry include the lids of laptops, tablets and smartphones. These tend to be made using the hybrid molding method.