Listening to a automotive plastics expert being interviewedThe following contains some actually quoted information derived therefrom.
The following information also contains my own included commentary may be interesting to some NanoXplore shareholders
. If you have any questions, I'll be willing to try to provide any answers which could be within my meager capability to do so.
FWIW, here it is
. With respect to thermoplastics being utilized for the composition of body pannels, we note that Dow Chemical (you'll recal Dow-DuPont being one of the primary XG Sciences "creditors" who approved of NanoXplore's purchase of XG Sciences assets) "was at the forefront of and one of the first companies to work with OEM's to introduce thermoplastics in the manufacturing of body pannels.
In fact, for anyone who remembers GM's Saturn line, that was a esentially a thermoplastic body pannel car. "Dow Chemical supported that activity and actually helped to launch some of those door pannels with Dow material."
"Dow has continued to innovate, as pertains to using plastics in automotive manufacturing.
As a example, we note that "one of the drawbacks to utilizing plastics in very large body panel exterior applications is that plastics tend to shrink and the coefficient of thermal linear expansion is much larger than that of aluminium and steel."
"In fact one of the products that Dow has introduced recently is a low CLTE Polyolefin elastomer used in the production of thermoplastic olefins, which is the material used in the manufacturing of bumper fascia, exterior trim" and can be used in manufacturing door panels."
"This is to deliver the same kind of look that a aluminium or steel type of body pannels would provide."
"This is critically important" because the lightweighting of all transportation vehicles, whether ICE or BEV type vehicles, is paramount for automotive manufacturers (especially bus, trucks, and other heavy or recreational transportation equipment manufacturers, etc.) seeking to reduce vehicles weight and thereby increase vehicle fuel efficiency and EV power cunsumption efficiency.
Comment: Now, all Dow-DuPont representatives have to do is to incorporate NanoXplore's graphene or NanoXplore's now owned xGnP ® brand Graphene Nanoplatelets to the equation and voila, we have a whole new catagory of additionally NanaoXplore co-developed proprietry and "industries wide" made available products. These would be NanoXplore's graphene comprised products which can be exclusively manufactured within the U.S. by and/or on behalf of NanoXplore or alternatively manufactured by or behalf of NanoXplore and exclusively exported into the U.S. market in unlimited quantities - see the USEPA granted "Consent Order" exclusively held by NanoXplore.
Conclusion: At this point, I simply won't understand why either Dow-DuPont, Cabot Corporation, or perhaps ABC Technologies representatives and quite knowledgeable NanoXplore representatives (expert in graphene and materials scientists) haven't as yet "co-developed and together introduced" many other multitudes of specifically NanoXplore graphene comprised product lines for the North American and the various global automotive transportation and recreational vehicles manufacturing market place?
Come on now. Get those apparently 50 or so later stage co-development and proprietary NanoXplore "Graphene BlackTM" or NanoXplore's now owned XG Sciences xGnP ® brand Graphene Nanoplatelets comprised developed products out into the market place.
Chop, chop people. Time is a ticking away and the share price isn't looking any better - hmm? Perhaps NanoXplore insiders simply like it that way?