With the help of CEPLAFIB consortium partners and TAM’ Purchase Planning Logistics Team, we are now able to represent a limited-edition series of TAM protective grasps at handrails in airport bus shuttles. These elements must withstand the mechanical loads of passengers or their luggage, so they must be made of robust and high-quality plastic materials with above-standard mechanical characteristics. Since CEPLAFIB composites, thanks to added reinforcements of newsprint fibres, demonstrate up to 200 % higher modulus of elasticity and even up to 40% higher tensile strength than recycled or virgin polymers, are seemed to be a suitable alternative to materials currently in use. In addition, they are made from consumers’ wasted materials, making them a much more sustainable, cheaper and environmentally friendly solution.
After realizing that new grades of recycled materials made of municipal wastes and validated for the production of automotive elements are being developed not very far from their headquarters, TAM Europe has decided to establish an active cooperation with LIFE CEPLAFIB project. As TAM’s core strategy is also strongly tied to environmentally friendly and, above all, sustainable materials, a new strategic alliance has been swiftly established.
TAM-Europe is a Slovenian bus and commercial vehicle manufacturer with strong strategic commitment to product efficiency and environmental sustainability. Incorporating the knowledge and skills of a European manufacturer with over 70 years of experiences in the commercial vehicle industry, achieved by a highly qualified workforce and today strengthened through the benefits of integration into a multinational group with vast resources in the vehicle industry, TAM-EUROPE fulfils the highest product and service expectations.
TAM-EUROPE makes buses, but unlike many companies in this sector it does so with a real understanding that every detail, however small, must be just right. This is especially true when it comes to the choice of materials from which the components of their buses are made.
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