In cooperation with the Faserinstitut Bremen, Fraunhofer IFAM has developed a new joining technology for the combination of aluminum casting and CFRP that is suitable for series production.

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The Lost Foam casting process is based on the American full-mold casting process, which has been known since the 1950s. This approach made it possible to produce complex components suitable for mass production in one processing step.