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AVK award for BMW hybrid development

A photonics-enabled process chain for manufacturing functionally integrated hybrid components has been developed in a German project for BMW.

The achievement was recently recognised with the 2017 Innovation Award from AVK. © AVK/ BMW

27th October 2017

Innovation in Textiles
| Berlin

Transport/Aerospace

The development arose from initial research led by the Aachen Centre for Integrative Lightweight Production (AZL) at RWTH Aachen University and in addition to BMW, has involved partners KraussMaffei, Arges, Precitec, Sensortherm and Zeiss Optotechnik.

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