EconCore N.V.
EconCore provides core technologies for most economic honeycomb sandwich panels and partsEconCore offers technologies for continuous production of most economic thermoplastic honeycomb materials which allow an in-line further processing to lightweight, cost efficient and high quality sandwich panels and parts.
EconCore’s daughter site ThermHex Waben (www.ThermHex.com) also provides thermoplastic honeycomb cores and selected configurations of honeycomb sandwich panels.EconCore supports customers and licensees in their application development and integration of the EconCore technologies in existing production lines.
Contact details
Tomasz Czarnecki
COO
+32 16 381060
tomasz.czarnecki@econcore.com
Ambachtenlaan 25
B - 3001 Leuven
Belgium
Materials
PP honeycomb cores, Recycled PET honeycomb cores, FR/FST honeycombs, PP honeycomb panels, Composite panels, Metal skinned honeycomb panels
Typical Applications:
Trunk trim (polypropylene honeycomb cover boards)
Load floor / Trunk trim (structural composite parts)
Headliner
Door panel / Door insert
Vibration dampening
Seat-back
Lightweight elements for electric vehicles design
Bulkhead
Parcel shelf
Material
PP honeycomb core – PP/GF composite skin san
Advantages
20% weight saving, Cost savings, Sustainable and Recyclable part, cycle time reduction
Process
Thermoplastic, Compression Molding
Development status
in use
Development partners
DPA Moldados (Tier 1)
Our use cases
Thermoplastic composite trunk floor of Hyundai Creta
Replacement of PU based technology with a lighter, sustainable / recyclable and cost copetitive thermoplastic honeycomb technology in Hyundai Creta trunk floor. PP honeycomb core – PP/GF composite skin sandwich, converted into a finished part within a ultra short cycle compression molding process.
Further information
Looking for cooperation for
Automotive OEMs and Tiers, as well as with converters with compression molding capabilities