SABIC Innovative Plastics has always attach importance to technological innovation, customer collaboration and, most recently the company to help its important customers KarbonKineticsLtd. (KKL) break with tradition and launch a successful use of high-value Verton * RV00CE special composite material of the new bike. KKL's new Gocycle ® is the world's lightest production Utility Vehicles . The car weighs only 16.2 kilograms, but very sturdy and durable, thanks in large part to high-performance Verton composite materials. Verton composite material is a 60% long glass fiber reinforced nylon composite material, it provides for the award-winning Gocycle high stiffness and impact strength and excellent toughness and reliability. This beautifully designed new bike pedal can be used in addition to fitness, you can also use a clean electric drive, so cyclists use neither effort will not result in emissions. This environmentally friendly, low-cost solution for urban transport in line with the European Union (EU) and the United States all the city's bicycle test. LNPVertonRV00CE special composite material as an excellent alternative to metal, is used in many structural components Gocycle, which not only makes the whole bike with ultra-light quality, but also to achieve a unique design. Verton specialty compound in view of the good reputation and had tied shoes devices on the sled successful applications (these applications require rugged, lightweight and superior mechanical properties), KKL SABIC Innovative Plastics' decision to use this high-quality materials.
Use Verton specialty compound of Gocycle components include: front fork / controller plug, Pitstopwheel ® wheel attachments, tolerance ring, wave spring, and the award-winning rear shock absorber Lockshock ®. Use of engineering thermoplastic materials bearing and wave spring, the field of application of this technology on a major breakthrough, thanks to the materials have high strength and ruggedness. Vehicle designers RichardThorpe is also the founder of KKL. Gocycle everywhere reflected in the development of urban professionals and their families concerned. When needed, just click the button, you can activate its electric function. To date, Gocycle has won numerous design and innovation awards, such as the 2009 "Best bike vehicle Award" in 2008 in the 21st Taipei International Cycle Show debut at the "Best Innovation Award." The Netherlands is the first tire dealer business Gocycles Vredestein team is, the company ordered 1,000 foldable electric bikes for those vehicles being used by customers to maintain.
KKL current focus on the Gocycle marketing in Europe, and in the next 12 to 18 months or so will go to the United States.
About SABIC Innovative Plastics
SABIC Innovative Plastics is a leading global supplier of engineering thermoplastics - for customers in the most pressing challenges facing the provision of breakthrough solutions with 75 years of experience. SABIC Innovative Plastics is a multi-billion dollars in more than 25 countries / regions with branches worldwide and employs more than 9,500 of its people. The company with customer collaboration and continued investments in new polymer technologies, global application development, process technology and to meet the automotive, electronics, construction, transportation and health care industry needs more environment-friendly solution to continue a leadership in the plastics industry position. The company's product portfolio includes thermoplastic resins, coatings, specialty compounds, film, and sheet. SABIC Innovative Plastics is the Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) full of all branches.