Automotive Design and Production

MAR 2014

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by Zachary Peterson > Associate Editor "We're not a materials company," says Alaa Elmoursi, Eaton's ( eaton. com ) senior technology manager for materials and processing technology at the company's innovation center a few miles north of Detroit. In its automotive business, Eaton is a supplier of a variety of products including valve systems, superchargers, and diferentials. "We work with existing materials to select Eaton has found ways to save weight by using plastics and metal together in diferential parts, and to leverage com - posites exclusively for applications in its superchargers for small, sub-liter engines. this way to make it clear that when it comes to materials, he does not have favorites. And while it might once have been a focus on a specifc type of material for a specifc part, a major focus area for Eaton is the combining of metal materials with plastics to create hybrid structures. the proper additives, proper fllers to make them suited for solving customer problems like lightweighting, improving efciency, and reducing noise and vibration." We're here to discuss innovations in plastics that Elmoursi and his team of engineers, scientists and chemists are working on, but he opens the discussion AD&P; > March 2014 > FEATURE > Saving Pounds with Plastic-Metal Hybrids > Zachary Peterson > zpeterson@autofeldguide.com 28 0314ADP FEATURE Eaton.indd 28 2/18/2014 3:31:33 PM

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