3. Advantages of composite materials
It's widely acknowledged that composite materials have a number of disadvantages compared with metal materials, which are well known in the automotive industry: cost per kilogram, part production rates, recyclability....
However, their use, which is not modelled on that of metals, offers a number of advantages that enable us to respond favorably to the developments in automotive products and user expectations described above.
These advantages are linked to their intrinsic characteristics and to the processes used to manufacture the parts.
3.1 Intrinsic characteristics of composite materials
Among these, the most favorable are :
low density compared with metals...
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