This year’s global lightweight summit focused on the dilemma that digitization in lightweight design can save, but also generates CO2. Our co-founder Dr. Dominik Dörr contributed to the session on digitization as a bridge between lightweight products and production and spoke about the potential and challenges of using a virtual process chain as a basis for the digitization of product development.

Learn more about “A Virtual Process Chain for Glass Mat Thermoplastics As A Basis for Digital Product Development”. Our co-founder Dr. Dominik Dörr will present at this year’s ITHEC in Bremen, Germany the seminal results he has achieved as a Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Western Ontario (UWO) within a project with General Motors Research & Development.

Twice in a row, congratulations to our colleague Dr. Christian T. Poppe, who, following our co-founder Dr. Dominik Dörr in 2021, could once again win the ESAFORM PhD Prize for Industrial Research in 2022! We are glad to unite such competent colleagues at SIMUTENCE GmbH.

This week, our co-founder Dr. Domink Dörr participated in the 4th OptiMACS Network Short Course with an invited presentation on the ” Efficient product and process design with thermoplastic tape laminates through a virtual process chain”.

The project “Lite2Duro – Lightweight design through resource- and CO2-efficient balanced injection molding of thermoset molding compounds”, which was launched in August, is researching increasing sustainability and energy efficiency in the processing of thermoset plastics.