Recently, Alpex, the world's leading supplier of aviation and automotive composite parts manufacturing mold systems, officially entered China, and set up an advanced composite mold system supporting production service factory in Changshu, Jiangsu Province to provide customers in Asia with internationally advanced professional services nearby. . The establishment of the Chinese factory also marks that Alpex's business distribution has fully covered three active areas of the composites industry in Europe, North America and Northeast Asia.
"Professional services", since its establishment in Mils, Austria in 1995, Alpex has always focused on the development and manufacturing of composite molds, and has 24 years of leading industry experience. With its innovative tool system and automation system, Alpex has been advancing the progress of mass production of carbon fiber reinforced plastic lightweight components in the automotive industry worldwide, participating in the development of composite mold systems and tools for well-known OEMs such as BMW, Audi, Lamborghini and It is also a long-term composite mold partner for many important companies in the aerospace industry such as Airbus and Boeing. Alpex's services cover project feasibility analysis, engineering design, mold (including special material mold) development, tooling fixtures, sample development and other fields. HP-RTM, prepreg, preform, C-SMC, etc. are available. Development of supporting molds for various processes. Just as its name comes from, EXPert from ALps, "Experts from the Alps", Alpex can be regarded as a professional supplier of composite mold systems at the top international level.
Compared with the development of supporting molds for more traditional and mature plastic and metal products, the development method and experience of supporting mold systems for professional composite products in China are relatively lacking, leading to some quality problems in the development and manufacturing of composite terminal products. . Mr. Michael Mair, General Manager of Alpex China, believes that the main challenge in the application of composite materials in China currently lies in development models and thinking barriers. What domestic composite parts design and producers generally lack is the logic of composite materials in the development process. To think and practice, fully consider the characteristics and plasticity advantages of composite materials, rather than product development planning based on existing metal component development methods. Alpex's professional services have adopted dynamic verification and optimization of mold systems since the product design stage, and have in-depth practices in mold integration and automation. They have developed the world ’s first set of sliders with undercut CFRP roofs. HP-RTM molds, dual-cavity wet compression molds for CFRP parts, and other molds, which also include complex structure mold systems that can be repeatedly used while maintaining high quality for mass production. Alpex on-site technical services can help customers quickly understand the mold opening methods, including mold handling, assembly, use, maintenance and other related skills, to achieve seamless docking from mold to product, thereby improving production efficiency.
Innovation has always been Alpex's proud leader, and Alpex has received multiple professional awards. 2 In December 018, the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Tyrolean Government of Austria presented Alpex with the award “Work through Innovation”. The award is an award created by the Austrian Agency for Scientific Research Promotion (FFG) to reward companies that have made outstanding contributions to innovative products or services and provided an excellent working environment for their employees. Alpex is also the winner of the "Innovation Potential Award" category in the 2018 Tyrolean Innovation Awards. The project that won the award was jointly developed by the universities of Alpex, SGL Group, Graz and Linz for the production of electric vehicle battery applications. C-SMC process.
In 2015, it won the Electromechanical Association Award for its innovative tool design concept dedicated to carbon fiber components. At the same time, he has participated in many forward-looking projects such as "Clean Sky" initiated by the European Union.
Alpex's new Asian factory (full name Jiangsu Alpine Equipment Technology Co., Ltd.) is jointly established by Austria's ALPEX Technologies GmbH and Asia's leading composite solutions provider HRC (China Hengrui Co., Ltd.) in a joint venture, dedicated to the application industry Customers provide innovative production molds for the fully automatic batch production of carbon composite materials. "In the past period of time, we have received a growing demand for demand from the Asian market. The huge space and acceptance of composite materials applications in this market has also given us great encouragement and confidence." Mr. Michael Mair said, "In the end, this investment decision also came from a long period of business discussions with HRC and judgment on the prospects of the common market, and recognition of the corporate culture of both parties."
"In recent years, HRC has focused on providing carbon fiber composite parts batch solutions for domestic and foreign auto and aerospace manufacturers. The demand for composite mold solutions has also become increasingly complex. ALPEX has systematic, flexible and personalized technical features. It coincides with the needs of HRC. The establishment of the new joint venture factory will also help two excellent companies in different sectors of the industry to complement each other's strengths, combine strengths and strengths, and make it easier for us to better allocate resources. customer service."