Self-heating composite molds: a technology mastered at Arts et Métiers

Self-heating composite molds: a technology mastered at Arts et Métiers

Replacing traditional molds, which are expensive to purchase and energy-intensive, with composite tools heated by resistive heating elements inserted during manufacture is the specialty of the team at the Laboratory Manufacturing Composites (LMC) at the Arts et Métiers campus Arts et Métiers Lille, which is exhibiting at this year's Global Industrie trade show in Lyon.