Fiber-reinforced composites in bus manufacture: new high-tech materials offer optimum strength and enduring resistance while featuring an extremely low weight.

With its fiber-reinforced composite sheeting manufactured in a continuous production process, German-based LAMILUX provides sophisticated, time-tested, high-tech materials for bus manufacture. Used both inside and out, these materials offer great advantages with their extremely light weight and exceptional strength. Completely corrosion-free, they feature excellent resistance to hail storms. These fiber-reinforced composites particularly impress thanks to their long service life, robustness, and resistance to weathering, chemicals, and ultra-violet light. Manufacturers can use them to build lightweight vehicle bodies due to their low mass per unit area.

As structural components in roofs and side walls, these FRP materials produce a strengthening effect and offer resistance to high compressive and flexural stress loads. Hail storms and impacts at specific points in minor accidents do not usually cause any damage thanks to the materials' high impact resistance. If dents or cracks should appear, the blemished surfaces can be quickly touched up while individual sections in segmented structures can be simply replaced.

Due to their optimum resistance to UV light, weathering, and corrosion, these materials are extremely long-lasting and do not fade for a long period of time. LAMILUX has provided proof of these excellent characteristics through extensive, internationally recognized test methods, such as the XENO test (DIN EN ISO 4892-2), the SUN test, the salt spray test (DIN EN ISO 9227), and long-term weathering tests.

More details about this material can be found in the "Asian Trucker Bus Special" which you can download in the "Magazine" section of this website.