Humans have been living with ceramics for 25,000 years. We’ve been using them for cups, pipes, pottery and many other handy everyday objects. Ceramics are known for their incredible strength and superior heat resistance.

Previously, the time-consuming techniques for manufacturing traditional composite materials made it not desirable for composite materials to satisfy the demand for matching curing time with the takt time found in the automotive industry.

I’m part of your life. Even if we haven’t met, we spend long hours together. I accompany you as you try to make it in time to the ballet performance your daughter was so looking forward to.

Saving energy or reducing its consumption is among the primary aims of engineering today. Innovations in the field of materials science offer opportunities for producing lighter and stronger structures with reduced energy consumption. Among the most popular materials for this purpose are “Composite Materials”. 

Kordsa is a leader in the global tire cord industry. Kordsa’s R&D center reseach focuses on the improvement of existing products and new product development as well as research on new materials.

There has been a remarkable increase in the number of people who believe that earthquakes pose a real threat to their lives due to the weak structure of their houses. Most of latter structures are now over 30 years old and in need of urgent structural remedial work.

Nearly all stakeholders – OEMs, suppliers, governments, and communities – are involved in discussions of eficiency, CO2 emissions, electrification, drones, new mobility solutions and their effects on our daily life. All these discussions mainly focus on outcomes, such as CO2 emissions, traffic jams and our daily problems. In order to understand and solve these problems, we should discuss how we would design and create a new world if we started from scratch.

The global market for ballistic protection is estimated to grow at above-average rates at a CAGR of around 5.5 percent from 2017 to 2020 and is forecast to be worth $11.2 billion by 2022.

In 2016, the volume of the global composites market reached 10.8 million tons. The market volume, which was 10.4 million tons in 2015, is expected to reach 12.9 million tons by 2021. The average year on year volume growth rate throughout the period between 2016 and 2021 is expected to be roughly 4 percent. In 2016, the value of the global composites market hit $82 billion.

Discover how Kordsa develops its innovative and unique intermediate products and applications in the field of composite reinforcement for a variety of industries, notably aviation and automotive