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| Nov.16.2001 "Dome Carbon Magic Ltd." Starts Up | |||
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Nowadays, aerodynamics is so important you could say that the potential of a racing car is defined by the aerodynamic development skills of the constructor. But to use the aquired aerodynamic potential it is no less important for the chassis to be extremely stiff and light weight. At Dome we were aware of the fact that aerodynamics and carbon composite technology will be the core issues of racing car development and have been developing our own technology for some time. As far as aerodynamics are concerned, we finished building our 50% wind tunnel and moving belt system in November last year and with a little more experience we should be on par with the worlds highest aerodynamic development skills. On the other hand, our carbon composite development started with the experimental bike Dome DCF1 in which we, with the cooperation of carbon fibre manufacturers, experimented with a carbon composite frame. Since then we have put a lot of effort into developing our carbon composite technology, also with the cooperation with carbon fibre manufacturers. At the time carbon fibre manufacturers still had interest in making carbon fibre products, so Dome would do the engineering design and the carbon fibre manufacturer would make the product. Since then the carbon fibre manufacturers have started to pull out of the market for complex shaped pieces as they are not efficient profit-wise. At the same time Dome also started to turn to factories that specialise in carbon composite parts. Of the several carbon composite part makers that exist in Japan we started to develop a deep relationship with Whisker who were extremely diligent in developing their knowhow and were also interested in racing cars. Dome also let Whisker into know-how we had developed ourselves and both sides had kept on pushing the other with new ideas. Dome has long since kept its focus on research and development and has left much of the manufacturing side to cooperating companies. With our launch into the European market and mass production just around the corner, the problems of cost, speed of development and steady production has left us no choice but to choose to do carbon composite parts manufacturering in-house. Therefore we have decided to buy up Whisker with which we have a deep relationship and make it a subsidiary of Dome. Development and production can now work more closely together and with the competition becoming more fierce we hope this will enable us to further develop our technology in the future.
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