I. Advanced Lightweight Foam Materials
Nordische offers innovative Advance Light Materials for the automotive sector, which are essential for boosting fuel economy and building lighter body parts. The weight reduction may help to enhance recycling and vehicle performance. One practical approach is to create and use lightweight, high-performance materials as an alternative to conventional automotive materials like cast iron and steel.
Carbon foams have an interconnected three-dimensional cellular network, offering advantages such as low cost, enhanced structural properties, fire resistance corrosion resistance and low weight. Carbon foams have the great potential to replacement for conventional metal fins in thermal management systems such as heat exchangers, space radiators and thermal protection systems.
Applications:
- Automotive
- EMI and thermal shielding
- Insulation
- Sensors
Open-cell aluminium foams have unique properties like high stiffness, low specific weight, high gas permeability, low thermal conductivity, high impact absorption capacity & electrical insulation properties. These combinations of physical and mechanical properties of metallic foam make it more attractive for the automobile industry and aerospace industries.
Applications:
- Automotive
- Artificial wood
- Aerospace Industry
- Thermal management
- Acoustic absorption
Aluminum metal foam, an isotropic, porous aluminum material with a cellular structure and exceptional mechanical and physical capabilities at a very low density. Closed-cell metal foams are widely offered as a lightweight structural material since they are rigid, light and primarily employed as impact-absorbing materials
Application:
- Automotive
- Aerospace
- Machine Industry
- Thermal Management
Nickel Foam has interlinked cellular structure with high porosity. The material has the characteristics of small bulk density, large specific surface area, good energy absorption, high specific strength and specific rigidity.
Applications:
- Automotive
- Shielding Material
- Floor damping material
- Decorative material
II. Lightweight Specialty Thermoplastic Materials
High performance engineering thermoplastic resins, compounds and composites, Copolymer materials, Specialty Resin Materials are available for the applications in the EV market segments are as follows:
- Crash Protection
- Corner support plates
- Top cover
- Modules
- Electrical Enclosure & Frame
- Module Brackets
- Bottom Enclosure
- Battery pack for Li-ION battery
- Lead acid battery for Non Li-Ion housing
- Ni-MH battery for Non Li-Ion housing
- For EV battery protection
- Display
- Console & Connector
- Fascia
- Charge port cover
- Frame
- Connector and socket