Asahi Kasei Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Tokyo Metropolitan Chiyoda-ku, General Manager: Ogaki Hideyoshi) and Mazda Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Aki-gun, Aki-gun, Hiroshima Prefecture, General Manager: Marumoto Akiba, hereinafter referred to as "Mazda") "Glass fiber reinforced polyamide 66 ultralight pedal bracket" won the 2018 "Altair Enlighten Award". The award ceremony was held in Michigan, USA on July 30 this year (US time).
The “Altair Enlighten Award” is a media partner of SAE International (Society of Automotive Engineering International) and Automobil Industrie (German Automotive Industry Association), which is jointly owned by Altair Engineering*1 and CAR=Center for Automotive Research. The awards are awarded to companies that have developed innovative vehicle lightweight technologies in three categories, including complete vehicles, modules and lightweight technologies. The company has developed a replacement metal pedal bracket for Mazda's existing models using its own glass fiber reinforced polyamide resin “Reyuna?”. Among them, one of CAE*2 uses the best topology analysis of Asahi Kasei resin, and proposes an epoch-making part shape, which may reduce the weight by 83%. This achievement is recognized and awarded the Lightweight Technology category award.
