Donkervoort
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Donkervoort Dreams
EX-CORE® sprang from the Donkervoort, so it’s natural that the Dutch boutique supercar maker has the broadest range of use-cases for the carbon-fibre technology.
One-Shot Savings
Donkervoort is obsessed with light weight, strength and perfection, and the EX-CORE® one-shot process to pull the number of carbon-fibre parts in the F22 supercar down from 98 to just 62.
Production complexity is the enemy of efficiency, adding weight and cost, and creating opportunities for manufacturing and assembly flaws, and creating potential weak points.
Ex-Core slashed those risks for Donkervoort, and also lowered energy costs and waste as well.
Ex-Core Strength
Using the one-shot production process for EX-CORE® gave Donkervoort far stronger parts, in more complex shapes, with fewer joins.
Donkervoort’s engineering data showed its carbon-fibre parts from Ex-Core created lighter parts that doubled in strength.
The torsional rigidity of the Ex-Core components in the F22 supercar doubled from the 20Nw/gram of the traditional carbon-fibre parts to 40Nw/g.
Shape Shifting
Donkervoort designers explored the outer edges of the EX-CORE® possibilities, creating angles that were not possible with traditional carbon-fibre methods.
That includes shapes with radii approaching zero degrees, thanks to the inside-out method of Ex-Core’s expanding foam pushing the carbon fibres to out against the inside surface of the mould.
Ex-Core Score
Donkervoort matured EX-CORE® from the experimental to a cutting-edge technology that now suits a wide range of applications. Donkervoort created Ex-Core to solve specific shortcomings with existing carbon-fibre technologies.
Thanks to their efforts, specific shortcomings in a variety of industries have an Ex-Core solution, to add strength in areas where lightness can’t be compromised, and to add lightness where strength is vital.
To find your Ex-Core Score to determine whether this technology suits your use case, contact Ex-Core.