contents companies & Business 12 Edito ......................................3 Point of view: core material ..........................4 n°73 Lennart HageLqvist, CEO, DIAB In brief Bombardier inaugurates engineering service office in Bangalore, India Agenda of Events ................. 8 Index .................................. 81 In the world ........................ 82 - More resistant and lighter - At the confluence of the Yangtze and Jialing rivers - BMW 323 Hommage Special Jec aSia 2012 24 26 48 6 jec composites magazine / No73 June 2012 “ 10 Reinforcement Owens Corning, as innovatory as ever 12 Our mission is to provide sandwich composite solutions that make our customers’ products stronger, lighter and more competitive. Book launch 11 Flax & Hemp fibres: a natural solution for the composite industry “ applications 14 Railway Lightweight noise reduction system for the railway sector 16 UAV Micro Air Vehicle aids Fukushima Daiichi disaster recovery 17 Electric vehicule A new type of battery pack module carrier 17 Floor plan Conferences Gain insight into the JEC 2012 l.C.S. Asia programme 44 DK Composites, on land and sea 46 Unifiber: dedicated to building and construction 30 34 39 JEC Asia Innovation Awards Programme Innovation report Country guest of honour: Malaysia CTRM: well established in the aerospace industry 48 Reinforcement AGY focuses on new markets and partnerships Fatigue characterisation of plant fibre composites for rotor blade applications 51 Wind energy 42 Spirit AeroSystems Malaysia Sdn Bhd, a central role in Malaysia