Frimo Innovative Technologies at JEC World 2026

Frimo Innovative Technologies, a global company in high-tech production solutions for composites and plastics, is set to unveil its latest advancements at JEC World 2026 (March 10-12, Paris-Nord Villepinte). At its booth J97 in hall 6, the company will demonstrate how its technology portfolio enables the transition from initial ideas to high-volume series production across the aerospace, automotive, defense, and energy sectors. 

Aerospace Excellence: JEC Innovation Award for Sauber 4.0

The centerpiece of this year’s exhibit is the Sauber 4.0 project, which has been honored with the prestigious JEC 2026 Innovation Award in the Aerospace Process category. As a key partner in the project (led by Composite Technology Center (CTC)), Frimo engineered a groundbreaking Resin Transfer Molding (RTM) tool for large, complex structural aircraft components.

Manufactured from INVAR, a nickel-steel alloy characterized by extremely low thermal expansion, and featuring advanced inductive heating, the tool ensures maximum precision. The Sauber 4.0 approach integrates a fully digitalized CFRP production chain and validated multiphysics simulations, offering significant energy savings and serving as an enabler for the next generation of Airbus single-aisle aircraft.

Powering Mobility: Integrated Battery Protection

In response to the rapid growth of electromobility, Frimo is showcasing automated production systems for large-scale underbody protection and battery housings. These systems synchronize core processes, including material unwinding, cross cutting, wet compression molding, precision milling or cutting, assembly and PUR sealing, into a single, traceable manufacturing flow. The company has already implemented polyurethane solutions, trimming solutions, technologies for pressing/molding and composites processing as well as joining and assembly processes with customized automation. Therefore the solutions can be applied across the full production chain of battery components, from laboratory-scale processes to industrial mass production.

New Horizons: Defense and Sustainable Thermoplastics

The company is also expanding its expertise in the Defense and Law Enforcement sector. Now Frimo offers tailored production concepts for ballistic composites (Aramid, UHMWPE) and hybrid ceramic or metal structures. Applications range from ballistic protection plates to missile and projectile components, drone structures, and other mission‑critical parts, including personnel armor, helmets, armored vehicles, and advanced weapon components.

Sustainability remains a core topic of the Frimo exhibit, highlighted by the MM4R project. This Multi-Material Design initiative demonstrates how light metals can be replaced by functionalized thermoplastic composites. The company states that the result is a series-ready, fully recyclable, resource efficient cockpit crossbeam produced through an hybrid process combining GF-PP tube forming using a Frimo heating and consolidation tool. The profile is then functionally enhanced in a company-owned hybrid tool through injection molding combined with positioned sheet‑metal inserts.

Meet the experts

Visitors are invited to engage with Frimos technology specialists in Paris. Free tickets are available upon request, and meetings can be scheduled via the official JEC Business Meetings platform.

Special Presentation: At the Composites Exchange Session at the Agora 6 Forum on Wednesday, March 11, at 10:30 a.m., Frimo Key Account Manager Carl Christoph Jost (M.Sc.) will discuss "Customized tooling solutions for advanced composite component manufacturing".

(Source: Frimo Innovative Technologies GmbH)

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