DSD, Solvay ‘sink their teeth’ into plastic transmission advances

For the automotive industry, plastics have long been a weight-saving material of choice, with a wide range of high-volume applications from body panels to interiors and underhood components-but transmission housings and gears are not among them.

Now that may change. Two European companies are collaborating in a study to achieve solutions that could herald a much wider role for plastic composites across transmission applications, and they are using electric vehicle (EV) research to help refine the technology.