system that allows semi-autonomous driving on limited-access highways with continuous, direct supervision by the driver. For vehicles in the Savile Silver exterior color, the front corner radar signals may reflect off the aluminum content in the silver bumper cover paint and pass through the front bumper beam. These signals may be registered as an object in the opposing lane and can potentially affect HDA operation by falsely detecting another v...

News  Updated at: 2025/12/13

t is a cost-effective and compact lighting module with single-optics technology, ensuring energy savings and sustainability. It is also showcasing the latest generation Front-end Module, a multi-piece assembly that consists of a structural carrier, integrating hood latch, engine cooling, headlamps, bumper beam, bumper fascia, wiring harnesses, AGS, Radar, Airbag sensors, based on the customer’s requirements. In addition, OPmobility’ lightweig...

News  Updated at: 2025/01/09

a thermoplastic matrix and their carbon footprint is smaller than that of aluminum. It offers a weight reduction of around 30%. The first organosheet case for the battery holder (48V) has been in series production since 2020. It offers a weight saving of 40% compared to a metal solution. The front bumper beam is under development with several customers and offers an average weight saving of 30%.(From a press release dated April 21, 2023)...

News  Updated at: 2023/04/24

Daejoo Kores to build new plant in Wanju-gun, South Korea Daejoo Kores Co., Ltd. (Daejoo Kores) announced a plan to build a next-generation car parts production plant in Wanju-gun, North Jeolla Province. The total investment in the project will be KRW 84.3 billion (JPY 8.18 billion). The South Korean company has headquarters and a plant in Wanju-gun. It produces aluminum components such as bumper beam assemblies and battery housings. (From a pres...

News  Updated at: 2021/10/28

et stringent requirements for high surface quality with specific hemming and roping properties. For the inner hood, Constellium delivers a material solution with superior formability and mechanical resistance that enables efficient processing of complex geometries on the customer’s equipment. The bumper beam and crash boxes are extruded components, allowing Constellium to design a product that is lighter, but also meets customer specifications ...

News  Updated at: 2019/05/22

g aluminium structural components for new BMW X Model Sports Activity Vehicles. Constellium supplies the new BMW X4 and X5 from its plant in White, Georgia. Constellium provides front Crash Management Systems for both the BMW X4 and X5. The systems supplied to the BMW Group feature a second smaller bumper beam that helps prevent a pedestrian from falling under the car in the unfortunate event of an impact. Constellium also supplies the aluminium...

News  Updated at: 2019/02/06

fiber reinforced thermoplastics (GFRTP) by using Tepex, continuous- and long-fiber reinforced thermoplastic composite sheets from LANXESS subsidiary Bond-Laminates, and Durethan, high-tech plastic from LANXESS. With the GFRTP, Honda has introduced the world's first development of hybrid-molded rear bumper beam using one-shot molding technology enabled by LANXESS. The process helped reduce the weight of the rear bumper beam by 50% from that made f...

News  Updated at: 2016/04/21

gust 21 that the 2015 Fit has received a 2014 Top Safety Pick rating from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). To match the 2014 Top Safety Pick rating, the company also announced that the early-production 2015 Honda Fit vehicles will be eligible for a product update involving a front bumper beam replacement, which will be completed free of charge. 2015 Honda Fit earned a top rating of GOOD in four out of five IIHS crash test modes ...

News  Updated at: 2014/08/26

Sungwoo Hitech Co., Ltd. announced that it has acquired a patent relating to its bumper beams. A V-shaped center reinforcement panel welded to the bumper beam offers improved impact absorbing capabilities. The bumper beam also functions as an underride guard at the time of a collision. (From a press release on November 24, 2010)...

News  Updated at: 2010/11/24

Kobe Steel to reinforce its aluminum bumper business Kobe Steel., Ltd. will reinforce its aluminum bumper business. It will double the production capacity of an aluminum bumper stay, which is processed by an electromagnetic forming method, from the current 15,000 units per month to 30,000 in fiscal 2007. At the same time, the capacity of a bumper beam, which is an extrusion-processed product, will be increased from the current 50,000 units per mo...

News  Updated at: 2007/06/06

um bumper and a stay. It will start trial production of the system by the end of this year to establish an operation to output 5,000 units per month within 2008, aiming to install it in the 2009 models for the marketplace. The new bumper system requires no welding. The pipe of a stay penetrates the bumper beam and the end of the pipe is electromagnetically expanded and coaked to the bumper, Compared to the conventional system in which the stay is...

News  Updated at: 2007/06/01