STRUCTeam, a leading independent composites engineering consultancy, has appointed Dr Roman Hillermeier as Transport Sector Lead and Dr Joseph Laux as Senior Technical Advisor. These important new additions are part of a wider investment strategy...

Permali has won UK Government funding to develop a lightweight composite solution that will allow existing diesel-powered buses to be retrofitted with zero-emission hydrogen powertrains. The objective is to rapidly develop an affordable green technology...

Lightweighting in manufacture is an urgent objective, most particularly for the transport sector.

To date, the lack of a satisfactory joining solution has deterred designers from specifying polypropylene (PP) based composite materials in many areas...

In 2018, an estimated 142 billion gallons of gasoline were consumed in the United States, with heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) attributing to 20 per cent of this figure. With the environmental impact of fuel clear...

The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, BEIS, has funded BSI to investigate where standards and standards related activity could help enable the uptake of light-weight materials, namely composites, in the transport industry.

Standards...