2018, Lamborghini SUV Urus will be the first mass production, and in order to allow SUV still meet the road performance of sports cars, weight loss is the primary task. So Lamborghini developed a new carbon fiber manufacturing technology to meet the requirements of a large number of production lines, but also to significantly reduce the cost of it. This is the carbon fiber forging composite technology.
 
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Lamborghini in 2018 mass production of its first SUV Urus, in order to maintain a tough sports car performance, Urus will use a large number of carbon fiber structural components to reduce vehicle weight. This new carbon fiber manufacturing technology is different from the current large number of applications of carbon fiber woven cloth + resin manufacturing process, it can be a large number of efficient and hydrated production for the Lamborghini production of new models to lay a solid foundation.
 
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This technology is named for carbon fiber forged composites, and it has many advantages: it can apply complex geometries, save manufacturing time and reduce raw material costs. The technology began in 2010, the first application, after six years of technology accumulation, can now carry out large-scale production. Lamborghini has now and Japan's Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd. depth cooperation, co-development of carbon fiber forging technology and will be applied to the new models. This new carbon fiber composite material is stamping according to the mold: the mold by adding carbon fiber and resin after the hydraulic press forging, so greatly reducing the production time.
 
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How does carbon fiber forged composites reduce costs?
 
The first is the cost of raw materials, carbon fiber forging composite material is the application of short fiber raw materials (you can be understood as the traditional carbon fiber woven fabric scrap, the cost of natural low). Followed by the cost of manufacturing time, the traditional long fiber materials need to be prepared in all directions in order to obtain uniform strength requirements, and debris of the short fiber does not exist this problem, as long as the distribution can be even. And due to the use of short fibers, can be used in very complex geometric mold, easy to large-scale production line, and the Lamborghini-style sharp lines.
 
Compared with the current popular carbon fiber reinforced composite (CFRP), the new forging manufacturing technology has the same mechanical strength, it is fully capable of manufacturing body structure. The use of this technology to produce the interior parts will have a special pattern and touch, can bring more mysterious and technological sense.
 
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The Lamborghini R & D department worked closely with the Japanese carbon fiber industry in 2008, and in the past few years the delegation of Japanese companies visited Lamborghini's Center for Composite Materials in Italy and the Lamborghini Advanced Composites Laboratory in the United States, Lamborghini's ability to develop carbon fiber technology. The current carbon fiber forged composites and carbon fiber blouses have been completed with Japanese partners.
 
The main reason for the choice of Japanese companies is Japan's carbon fiber supply accounts for 60% of global supply, and Japan has other innovative cutting-edge technology, such as surface film technology, innovative coating process.