On November 25, 2024 the Bioproduct Discovery and Development Centre held the first project meeting for "Lightweight-safer-sustainable electric vehicles using automotive waste streams - a game changing circularity model to commercialize innovative composites". This meeting was attended by distinguished researchers and professionals from the automotive industry.

 

A special thank you to the two keynote speakers who presented at the event: 

Dr. Parvinder Walia, Director, Materials Science, Advanced Development & Innovation, Magna Exteriors, USA

Dr. Omar Faruk, Sr. Research & Development Engineer, Powertrain Engineering R&D Center, Ford Motor Company, Canada

 

Congratulations to our BDDC members who presented their work at the project meeting:

Kehinde Olonisakin​ presented on "Upcycling of WASTE PLASTICS from Shredded Auto-parts & Pyrolyzed Waste Biomass in Engineering Sustainable Composites for Automotives​"

Malik Hasson presented on "Advancing Automotive Sustainability: Innovative Composites from Recycled Plastics and Biocarbon for a Circular Economy​"

Suman Ghosh presented on "Sustainable, Non-Flammable Polyamide Composites for Electric Vehicle (EV) Parts"

Hugh MacFarlane presented on "How High Graphitic Biocarbon in Polyamide Composites helped in Developing Flame Retardant Electric Vehicle (EV) Parts" 

Nur Fazreen Alias presented on "Sustainable, Non-Flammable PP based composites for EV parts​"

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