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EWI recently welcomed consumer products manufacturer OXO into membership. The company, based in New York, NY, creates cooking & baking, beverage, cleaning & organization, and baby & toddler products.

The use of polymers in automobile manufacturing is commonplace these days – for good reason. Replacing metal parts with plastic components contributes to lighter overall weight, greater fuel efficiency, ergonomic exteriors, safe and stylish lighting, comfortable interiors, and improved noise reduction. It can be tricky, though, to join polymers – to each other, metal parts,...

The integration of advanced high-strength steels in automotive body-in-white manufacturing has made vehicles lighter, improved crash performance, and reduced noise, vibration and harshness. However, the use of AHSS materials has also been correlated to spot weld cracking, especially with Gen 3 steel grades. EWI’s new H-coupon test was developed to assess the influence of gap...