The China Edit – September 2020
The China Edit is a monthly curation of business news and reports which have a direct impact on the Chinese – and global – composites industry.
Would you pay $1.4m for this 1,400 HP Hongqi S9 PHEV hypercar from China?
Details are still limited, but it apparently will be manufactured through a joint venture with another Chinese company, Silk EV. We hope to learn more about this intriguing and actually pretty good looking electrified car, one of the most remarkable automobiles to ever come out of China (if it lives up to the claims made about it); we’re looking forward to seeing it driven.
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2021 Ford Territory EV for China expands battery range, cuts prices
You can tell the battery-packing Territory from its gas-guzzling counterpart thanks to a front grille with a sparse hexagonal pattern, C-shaped daytime running lights integrated in the front bumper, and different wheels. The exhaust pipes are also missing, replaced by brake lights. Inside, there is a single-reduction gear selector instead of the common stick, and the trim is rather lavish with perforated leather, polished metal and carbon fiber used throughout.
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Chongqing Changan Automobile turns losses into profits during first half of 2020
Moreover, breakthroughs have been made in such advanced technologies as load distribution and structural optimization of carbon fiber body, integrated design of carbon fiber body and aluminum alloy frame, connection technology of various lightweight materials, etc. , to achieve carbon fiber, aluminum alloy and other lightweight materials integrated applications.
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Nytex to invest nearly NT$300m in Changhua County
The company is the leading nylon composite material maker in Taiwan, supplying the automotive, medical, heat diffusion, sports and leisure, high-end office furniture, and bicycle sectors, making it “an important part of the supply chain” for those products, the ministry said.
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Pakistan could acquire semi-stealth, 4.5 gen jets from China
Powered by a Russian engine giving it a maximum static thrust of approximately 123 kN, the single-engine tail-less canard delta wing J-10C is an upgraded version of its predecessors, sporting an Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) fire control radar and is made of composite materials for high strength and lower weight.
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