ThinKing presents Lightweight Innovations "Made in BW"

Displaying excellence throughout the state – with the ThinKing, Leichtbau BW regularly presents innovative and sustainable lightweight technology solutions made in Baden-Württemberg.

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ThinKing April 2021: The trick with the grid: How a carbon grid can impact the climate
06.04.2021
The April 2021 ThinKing honours an innovative reinforcement for concrete construction with the potential to become a standard product in lightweight construction, thanks to the…
ThinKing March 2021: Lightweight design dominoes: Lightweight construction – improved productivity, lower costs
03.03.2021
ThinKing March 2021 shows in an impressive way that lightweight construction can do more than just save weight. For EMM! solutions, lightweight design is part of their corporate…
ThinKing February 2021: Precise measured values - Pushing to the limits, safely
01.02.2021
Anyone who wants to push the limits of performance has to know their materials in detail. This is true of extreme athletes, just as it is for lightweight design engineers. Because…
ThinKing January 2021 - Lightweight Hercules: Quadrocopter trimmed down by two thirds, but carries four times its own weight
11.01.2021
The ThinKing for January will honour two students from the Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences who applied their knowledge from different disciplines consistently and turned a…
ThinKing November 2020: From wood to organic ink for 3D-printed lightweight components.
02.11.2020
Printing technological components from wood-based biopolymers might sound like science fiction, but researchers at the University of Freiburg and the Freiburg Material Research…
ThinKing December 2020: Wood, hemp, and chicken feathers – creating technical components from natural fibres
02.11.2020
The last ThinKing of 2020 is dedicated to a process with an impressive lightweighting potential: The injection blow moulding or “fibre injection moulding” (FIM) process uses three…
ThinKing October 2020: Bringing products to market faster and with more individuality
13.10.2020
The ThinKing Award for October 2020 goes to a “facilitator” of lightweighting. Producing workholding fixtures and jigs for laser welding through an additive process noticeably…
“1+1 equals -1”: New hybrid fibre eliminates one process step
01.09.2020
Gustav Gerster GmbH & Co. KG has now achieved an important step: The company has created a hybrid textile that combines reinforcing fibres and a plastic matrix in one woven fabric.…
ThinKing August 2020: The “magic” of magnesium: warped becomes even, heavy becomes light
13.08.2020
Die-casting: less material and weight saves money
ThinKing July 2020: A camshaft module that is 20 percent lighter
01.07.2020
The lightweight camshaft module shows how many positive multi-material lightweight constructions can have.

ThinKing April 2021: The trick with the grid: How a carbon grid can impact the climate

ThinKing March 2021: Lightweight design dominoes: Lightweight construction – improved productivity, lower costs

ThinKing February 2021: Precise measured values - Pushing to the limits, safely

ThinKing January 2021 - Lightweight Hercules: Quadrocopter trimmed down by two thirds, but carries four times its own weight

ThinKing November 2020: From wood to organic ink for 3D-printed lightweight components.

ThinKing December 2020: Wood, hemp, and chicken feathers – creating technical components from natural fibres

ThinKing October 2020: Bringing products to market faster and with more individuality

“1+1 equals -1”: New hybrid fibre eliminates one process step

ThinKing August 2020: The “magic” of magnesium: warped becomes even, heavy becomes light

ThinKing July 2020: A camshaft module that is 20 percent lighter