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Company profile	Weber Fibertech GmbH, at home in the small south German town of Markdorf in the hinterland of Lake Constance, manufactures highly innovative, fiber-reinforced thermoplastic parts based on the patented E-LFT lightweight design process developed in-house. Weber Fibertech utlizes impact extrusion and Long Fiber Thermoplast Directmolding as the technology for manufacturing structural parts up to three square metersin size with short cycle times. Injection molding is likewise employed; hollow sections manufactured using the water injection process can be implemented as structural reinforcement for parts in addition to continuous fiber reinforcement. Weber’s customers include numerous big names in the automotive, engineering, construction, and agricultural industries. The company is also involved in close research partnerships with several top universities, together driving the development of new lightweight design concepts and production processes for industrial manufacturing.
Products & Services	– Development and manufacture of long fiber-reinforced, lightweight and high-strength plastic parts – Maximum-strength plastic parts, including crashworthiness if required – Plastic parts reinforced locally or globally with organo sheets, tailored fiber blanks or UD tapes – Hybrid plastic parts with local metallic reinforcements and form-closed connections – Parts with reinforcing channels hollow-molded using WIT technology – Visible structural parts with a grain structure, fabrics, card webs, felts and films – Structural parts with numerous options for surface design as well as look and feel – Plastic parts with fully integrated functional elements – Shell-type structural parts based on proven welding and bonding technologies – Large parts up to 3 square meters in size
References and export activities	Automotive – Tailgate, Smart BR 451: 25 percent stiffer / Automotive – 3rd seat row and cargo floor in one (Mercedes E Class): Part with shell-type structure is stiffer / Boatbuilding – Water jet drive: Long fiber-reinforced plastic proves more robust against abrasion due to sand than original metal drive / Automotive – Partition for VW ID Buzz
Target group	– automotive, aerospace and bicycle indudustry – boatbuilding – engineering and construciton sector – agricultural industries – electrical equipment manufactures – renewable energies sector like windfarm construction
Competitive advantages	E-LFT impact extrusion and E-LFT-WIT injection molding / Lightweight design – E-LFT process enables structural parts up to 50 percent lighter than comparable parts made from conventional materials / Cost-efficient – E-LFT process means structural parts need only be locally reinforced according to the load case; this saves material and cuts the cost / Maximum strength – Proper long fibers and gentle, direct compounding …
Ideal Business Partners	In future, we want to deepen and expand our research partnerships with top universities – both German and international.