Inside Composites meets Achim Fischereder, Director of Automotive Sales and Marketing at Hexcel.

Please provide our readers with an overview of Hexcel’s products and services to the automotive sector.

Achim Fischereder: Hexcel is a leading supplier of advanced composite materials ranging from carbon fibres and different kinds of reinforcements to prepregs and structural film adhesives. We add further value for our customers by providing ready-to-use net shape preforms, which can be effectively implemented into high volume production processes.

In addition to our product range we support our customers from the part design stage through to the definition of a serial process layout. This is an area we see as very critical for ensuring the implementation of composite solutions on time and on cost. Typical examples of our services here are part and process simulation, advanced testing methods and access to our excellent network of technology partners in tooling and line integration...

Read the full interview on our Inside Composites website