Vineet Kapila is the automotive product marketing manager for the Americas of materials-supplier Styron in Detroit. He has over 15 years of experience in the automotive industry, first as a manufacturing and product engineer with Ford Motor in 1995, and later in marketing roles at Bayer Material Science and BASF. He holds a master’s...
Tom Pilette is vice president of product and process development for Magna Exteriors and Interiors of Troy, Mich., a designer, developer and manufacturer of automotive systems. He has been with Magna for 17 years, and has 25 years of automotive composites experience. Some of his previous positions include operations group general manager, business unit...
To compete in the around-the-world Zero Race, a race designed to raise awareness for renewable energy, a vehicle must be able to travel substantial distances at road-worthy speeds propelled only by an electric motor. To do that, the vehicle must be extremely lightweight, meaning design teams often use seemingly unorthodox materials to build their...
Paul Schuch talked for more than 15 minutes about the robots that his company manufactures before one of them flashed across the screen, all yellow paint and geometrical angles and long mechanical arms. They cut holes through car hoods, trim the edges of bathtubs—each movement just seconds. They just looked efficient.
Canada's first bio-composite-bodied electric car recalls Henry Ford's innovations in its use of hemp mats. The Kestrel is an electric 4-passenger bio-composite compact vehicle, designed and engineered by Motive Industries Inc. in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
In 2007, Ray MacNeil left his job at PPG Industries where he’d worked for 35 years and began consulting. With a background in sales and marketing, strategic planning and business analysis, MacNeil does market research and development for a variety of companies within the composites industry. This experience also allows MacNeil to look ahead...
Fritz Scholten is a native of Germany with degrees in international trading and business administration/economics. A steel industry and materials expert, he was head manager in executive positions at major German steel trading companies. He has started three successful businesses in a variety of industrial fields, including composites.
Nathan James Armstrong is president of Motive Industries Inc., an automotive design firm in Calgary, Alberta, Canada that is developing bio-composite-bodied electric cars using industrial hemp fiber in the manufacturing process. The company unveiled the Kestrel—Canada's first bio-composite electric vehicle design, at the September EV 2010 VÉ Conference and Trade Show in Vancouver, British...
Bryan Smith is the general manager of Goldshield Fiberglass, a Decatur, Indiana-based manufacturer of custom molded composites that has 150 employees and 260,000 square feet of manufacturing space. Smith’s first stint at Goldshield lasted 14 years (from 1986 to 2000), and he rejoined the company in 2009 to oversee its day-to-day operations and to...
Top composites news this week included the following: Armored Chariots LLC, a joint venture between TPI and Plasan, will produce lightweight crew compartments for military vehicles. SAMPE and SME reported record attendance at their co-located conferences. Marine Products Corp. a manufacturer of fiberglass boats, reported third-quarter profits.
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