Enabler Technology materials & technologies
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Platz 1 – Rear Shelf
| Innovation: | 3D-printed lightweight shelf (26.5 kg weight reduction), maximum space utilization, high load capacity, no reinforcements or fasteners required |
| Sustainability: | Mono-material (PP compound) instead of chipboard and melamine resin, making it easily reusable, 1.9 kg CO2-eq per kg polymer |
| First application: | Mercedes-Benz Vito Tourer Pro extra-long, February 2025 |
| Raw material manufacturer: | Akro-Plastic GmbH |
| Material: | Akrolen® PP ICF 30 AM black (8344) |
| Machine manufacturer: | 1A Technologies UG |
| Part manufacturer: | Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology (IWU) |
| Other participants: | Mosolf Special Vehicles GmbH |
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Platz 2 – Center Consoles with Screw Bosses
| Innovation: | Innovative mobile injection molding machine automatically molds screw bosses onto 3D-printed parts – flexible, precise, resource-efficient from batch size 1 |
| Sustainability: | – |
| First application: | Various |
| Raw material manufacturer: | Akro-Plastic GmbH |
| Material: | Akromid®U28 ICF 40 Akromid®U28 GF 30 |
| Mold manufacturer: | – |
| Machine manufacturer: | – |
| Part manufacturer: | aft automotive GmbH |
| Other participants: | Anybrid GmbH |
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Platz 3 – aiXtight – Measurement System for 100%
Screw Head Contact
| Innovation: | IR detection of screw head contact, measurement of preload force (in production) |
| Sustainability: | Reduces scrap & resource consumption, detects defects early, promotes recycling through screwed, sortable connections instead of bonded ones |
| First application: | November 2024 |
| Raw material manufacturer: | – |
| Material: | – |
| Tool Manufacturer: | – |
| Machine Manufacturer: | – |
| Part manufacturer: | aiXtrusion GmbH |
| Other Participants: | – |
Enabler Technology part & component design
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Platz 1 – Thermoplastic-intensive Battery Enclosure System
| Innovation: | Newly designed high-voltage battery housing system, focus on next generation materials and design strategies |
| Sustainability: | Offers benefits, such as a 43% reduction in CO2eq emissions over the entire lifecycle and 25% in a closed-loop recycling system |
| First application: | Prototype |
| Raw material manufacturer: | Sabic |
| Material: | Multi-material design featuring Stamax™ (FR LGF-PP) 30YH570 resin |
| Mold manufacturer: | Christian Karl Siebenwurst GmbH & Co. KG |
| Machine Manufacturer: | Engel Austria GmbH |
| Part manufacturer: | – |
| Other participants: | Forward Engineering, Ensinger, Envalior, Freudenberg FST, Du Pont |
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Platz 2 – Air Vent System with Sustainable
PCR Plastics
| Innovation: | Recyclates instead of virgin material in complex assembly – functionally, visually, and process-technically equivalent, reduced processing temperature |
| Sustainability: | PCR use in 7 components reduces CO2 footprint by up to 65%– from 892 g to 310 g CO2eq per component |
| First application: | Concept component based on VW Touareg |
| Raw material manufacturer: | – |
| Material: | Various polymer materials with different PCR content |
| Tool Manufacturer: | – |
| Machine Manufacturer: | – |
| Part manufacturer: | Motherson DRSC Deutschland GmbH |
| Other Participants: | – |
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Platz 3 – Eco-design Battery Module, Integrated
Busbars & Monitoring
| Innovation: | state-of-the-art flame retardant solution applied to recycled polymers, halide free, innovative fast lamination process and monitoring and printing technology |
| Sustainability: | 25% less weight, modular, and easily disassembled, contains 37% recycled material and reduces CO2 emissions by 65% compared to the benchmark |
| First application: | – |
| Raw material manufacturer: | Radici Group |
| Material: | re-PA6 GF25 HF FR / Renycle S GF2501HF0 3033 BK |
| Tool Manufacturer: | – |
| Machine Manufacturer: | – |
| Part manufacturer: | Mersen |
| Other participants: | Leartiker |
