Automotive - Areas of use

Metawell^® is mainly used as load-bearing slab or light stiffening element with little overall thickness in automobiles, utility cars and caravans.

Automobiles

The technical characteristics of Metawell^® as rigid, thin panel with a high strength and an even surface can be used among others in / as:

• cover plate in the boot
• loading soil (e.g. double trunk bottoms)
• cargo fixing (crash)
• load bearing slabs to increase the stiffness of the car body
• seating systems (e.g. support structure back seat rest)
• load-bearing structure in space-frame constructions

Utility cars

Metawell^® has been successfully used for years now mainly as big-sized load-bearing structure or as lining element, for instance for:

• laterial linings / cowls
• stable walls (e.g. back wall and roof of a driver's cabin)
• shear-resistant partitions
• rigid load-bearing structures for fittings (e.g. shelves)

The following applications have proven themselves particularly in the bus industry:

• luggage floors in coaches
• stiffening of side lids (Metawell^® Aluflex)
• access aids (e.g. electrical and manual ramps)
• covers and servicing drops in the floor

Caravans

Technically and economically convincing light-construction characterizes the fittings (cupboard, kitchenet, roof storing units, tables and bedplate) in the new VW California. The basic reasons to use Metawell^® have been:

• reduction of weight and gain of storing space
• rigidity and crash behaviour of the furniture
• possibility of shaping
• recycling / "EU-old vehicle regulation"