v 131 n 3 Aug p 67-70. Method of producing panels, fitted to steel body shell of Trabant car, at Sachsenring plant, Zwickau, East Germany; Duroplast material uses short cotton fibers, powdered phenol and kresol resins as ingredients; manufacturing process is combination of textile and pressing techniques; up to 150 gauzelike layers of carded fibers are impregnated with dry resin on automatic line to make continuous blanket of wadding, cut into blanks and hot-formed into panels in water-heated presses running on 11-min cycle; trimming of panels and assembling.
Plastic body panels mass-produced at east German car plant
Automotive Industries
Automotive Industries ; 130 , n 11
1964
4 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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