Scott Bader and Shape Corp have worked in partnership to produce the automotive industry’s first curved, multi-hollow pultruded carbon fibre bumper beam for the newly unveiled 2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray.

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Novi, Mich. — General Motors Co.'s use of composites on the new Chevrolet Corvette equals a "winning equation" for the automaker, according to Edward Moss, GM's engineering group manager for Corvette body structures.

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Shape Corp. engineered and manufactured the automotive industry’s first curved, multi-hollow pultruded carbon fiber bumper beam for the newly unveiled 2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. The bumper’s superior properties produce a very light weight component, which contributes to protecting the rear and expanded trunk.

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Radius-Pultrusion process offers linear or curved profiles. In the early days of composites manufacturing, the materials for building fiber-reinforced plastic/composite parts were laid into molds by hand. Hand layup is still common in the industry, but automated processes — notably pultrusion, filament winding, automated tape layup (ATL) and others — have been developed along the way to replace or streamline manual operations.

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