Videos – How BMW Carbon Fiber is Born – Manufacturing at SGL

Carbon fiber is a very important part of BMW vehicles, especially in the movement to sustainable mobility and lightweight cars. The BM1 i3 and i8 are the first samples of how BMW would like to utilize carbon fiber in their cars. The videos below bring us to where BMW’s carbon fiber is made: at the SGL Automotive Carbon Fibers plant and BMW’s Landshut plant in Germany. BMW plans to use a lot of carbon fiber in their future vehicles so they are looking for ways to bring down its cost.  BMW’s current carbon fiber production chain starts off with sourcing raw material in Otake, Japan, to carbon fiber manufacturing in Moses Lake, Washington, to final material preparation at SGL.

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