Mobility becomes possible: creating innovations with high-performance plastics
Modern mobility solutions require innovative approaches that enable performance at the highest level, uncompromising safety and a resource- and cost-saving use of materials – with minimal impact on the environment.
In order to create sustainable solutions, components and materials must meet high requirements. High-performance plastics form the basis of the change towards a new, resource-saving mobility. For example, they combine low weight with performance and design. Thanks to their advantageous material-specific properties, they make numerous mobility solutions and applications possible in the first place. They shape change and create optimal solutions for existing concepts. Whether electric drive, hybrid model or combustion engine: high-performance plastics from Façade Creations make an important contribution to the mobility of today and tomorrow.
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Performance & Quality at the Highest Level
Safe, energy-efficient, low-emission, high-performance and affordable: high-performance plastics are driving the change towards a new and sustainable mobility. The Façade Creations portfolio for the mobility industry offers solutions for numerous applications in innovative mobility projects.
The advantageous properties of high-performance plastics drive innovation:
- Electrically insulating
- Thermally conductive & protection against overheating
- Highly resistant & durable
- Tribological (good sliding and wear behaviour)
- Lightweight
- Noise and vibration damping
Benefits of Façade Creations Plastic Solutions for the Mobility Industry
- Fuel-efficient
- Sustainable
- Emission-reducing
- Safe
- Customisable
High weight savings for fuel-efficient mobility solutions
Lightweight solutions are a key factor for the mobility of the future. Mobility concepts must be efficient, safe and competitive. At the same time, they must be fuel-efficient and low in emissions. High-performance plastics are lighter and at the same time more efficient than conventional materials. Thus, they offer modern and intelligent approaches to solutions.
- Up to 50% weight savings compared to other materials used
- 25–35% fuel savings
- Significant reduction in emissions
Reduced environmental impact & recyclability
Every gram of saved weight results in significantly reduced carbon dioxide emissions, or increases the electrical range of e-mobility applications. High-conductivity plastics are also recyclable without losing their high-performance properties when reused. The use of recycled plastics already saves precious resources in the manufacture of new products. As a result, they make a significant contribution to reducing the CO2 footprint.
Emission-reduced and emission-free mobility solutions
Our tribologically optimised plastics and component solutions reduce friction. They ensure low noise development in sliding and friction applications, making them particularly interesting for e-mobility. Due to the weight savings compared to other materials, they also reduce energy consumption and increase the range in e-mobility. Our plastic solutions for fuel cells as an alternative drive technology also contribute to extending service life, saving weight and optimising range. Façade Creations has specialised in material development and processing procedures for PEM fuel cell components such as bipolar plates and end plates. Together with our customers, we successfully replace metallic materials and thermoset composites with thermoplastic high-performance polymers.
Safety without compromise
Plastics used for mobility solutions have fundamental material properties. They make applications safer, systems more reliable and minimise risks.
High-performance plastics have specific properties. By selecting the right material and mixing in additives, component requirements can be optimally implemented.
- Fire safety through flame-retardant additives and inherently flame-retardant plastics
- Suppression of explosion risks in fuel tanks through materials suitable for potentially explosive atmospheres
- Shock absorption, e.g. through fibre-reinforced plastics
- Emergency running properties, e.g. in the form of dry lubrication
Maximum design freedom for appealing styles and complex geometries
The plastics we use score not only on the inside: their flexibility, formability and changeability also enable visually appealing solutions without compromising performance. Even with complex and filigree applications, our innovative production technology makes it possible to achieve excellent surface quality and high dimensional accuracy.
One-Stop Shop – Full-Range Supplier for the Mobility Solutions of the Future
As a full-range supplier for modern mobility solutions made of high-performance plastics, Façade Creations relies on a fully integrated value chain. Specially adapted to the growing requirements of the mobility industry, we produce a wide variety of polymer compounds in-house. These are processed into high-quality, competitive mobility components at our locations using innovative plastics processing technologies. We complement this range with industry-specific know-how.
Finished Mobility Parts
- Machined parts
- Injection-moulded parts
- Profiles
- Microsystems
Products for the Mobility Industry
- Compounds
- Shapes
- Composites
Areas of Application
Façade Creations offers solutions for a wide range of mobility types, including:
- Electric vehicles
- Electric two-wheelers, e.g. pedelecs
- Transport & freight traffic
- Off-highway
- Rail
- Shipping
- Aerospace
End plate – fixture for the compression of fuel cell modules (hydrogen technology)
- Excellent strength and stiffness
- Good temperature resistance
- Good dimensional stability
- Very high strength, also at higher temperatures
Manufactured using a pressed and machined glass-fibre-reinforced high-temperature compound (40% glass fibre content).
Piston rod
- Injected movable ball joint: reinforced polyamide compound
- Injection-moulded ball pin: metal insert combined with a modified, glass-fibre-reinforced polyamide compound
- Full-plastic rack assembly: impact-resistant, carbon-fibre-reinforced polyamide compound
