Fiberforge

Fiberforge

Formerly	Hypercar Inc.
Company type	Privately held company
Industry	Transport industry
Founded	1998 (1998)
Defunct	June 2013 (2013-06)
Fate	Liquidated
Successor	Dieffenbacher
Headquarters	Basalt, Colorado , United States
Key people	Amory Lovins (Chairman)
Products	Composites components, thermoplastic car components
Number of employees	70 (2012)

Fiberforge was an American privately held company that used a proprietary process for making thermoplastic advanced composites ^{[1] [2]} to make things more lightweight. Particular interest has been placed on decreasing weight of everyday means of transportation like cars and aircraft ^[3] for better fuel efficiency and hence Environmental sustainability. ^[4] Amory Lovins was its chairman emeritus. ^[5]

The company was started in 1998 and ceased operations in June 2013 due to financial problems and attempted to liquidate its assets for the benefit of creditors ^[6] It was later acquired by Dieffenbacher. ^[7]

History

• 1994: Rocky Mountain Institute founded the Hypercar ^[8] Center to help prove its technical feasibility and commercial reality. ^[9]
• 1998: Rocky Mountain Institute took this process a step further by launching a for-profit venture, Hypercar Inc.
• 2004: Hypercar Inc. changed its name ^[10] to Fiberforge to better reflect the company's new goal of lowering the cost of high-volume advanced-composite structures/ ^[11]
• 2010: Office is established in Zug Switzerland.
• 2012: At the height of production, output with approximately 70 employees.
• 2013: Ceases operations due to financial problems. ^[6] Acquired by Dieffenbacher. ^[7]

See also

• Companies portal

• Amory Lovins
• Hypercar
• Rocky Mountain Institute

References

1. Jespersen, S. T.; Wakeman, M. D.; Michaud, V.; Cramer, D.; Månson, J. -A. E. (June 2008). "Film stacking impregnation model for a novel net shape thermoplastic composite preforming process" . Composites Science and Technology. 68 (7): 1822–1830. doi:10.1016/j.compscitech.2008.01.019.
2. High Performance composites article, "", 1/1-2006
3. Netcomposites article, "^[ usurped ]", 7/1-2010
4. Hybrid Cars now, "", 7/1-2010
5. "The authors". Natural Capitalism . Rocky Mountain Institute . Retrieved 27 October 2017.
6. "Glenwood Springs-based Fiberforge hits 'end of the runway' | PostIndependent.com". www.postindependent.com. Archived from the original on 2013-06-18.
7. "Dieffenbacher Acquires Fiberforge Tape Layup Technology". dieffenbacher.de. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
8. Science Channel's Eco-tech series, "", 9/4-2007
9. Discovery channel video, " Archived 2012-03-06 at the Wayback Machine ", 7/1-2010
10. RMI article, "", 7/1-2010
11. The Aspen Times, "", 7/1-2010

External links

• "Fiberforge product from Dieffenbacher". Dieffenbacher. Retrieved 2020-10-25.
• "Fiberforge: Lightweighting Your World With Thermoplastic Advanced Composite Parts". Fiberforge.com. Archived from the original on 2017-01-23.
• "Hypercar". Hypercar.com. Rocky Mountain Institute. Archived from the original on 2008-04-05.
• "RMI | move - Hypercar". Rocky Mountain Institute. Archived from the original on 2012-01-05. After a century of engineering, cars are embarrassingly inefficient.