Commercial Vehicles Case Study

Objective: Truck or bus load floors 4.2 meters or longer that meet stringent EU CO2 regulations for commercial vehicles by 2025. Increase the number of loads that can be carried per trip. Be cost competitive and environmentally friendly.

BLS Solution

• • Greater than 50% reduction in weight v.existing designs
• • Improved fuel consumption due to weight reduction
• • Increased load capacity
• • Reduced part count (BOM)
• • Reduced assembly cost
• • Molded-in features, such as drain holes and drip channels, make cleaning easier
• • Combines recycled carbon fiber and recycled polycarbonate core
• • Superior stiffness-to-weight ratio compared to steel or aluminum
• • Cost competitive with GRP and foam assemblies
• • Low cost tooling
• • Helps meet 2019 EU CO2 commercial vehicle requirements

Above: 3.5 ton truck floor with molded channels to make cleaning easier.
Below: Floor installed.  

Above: A video about the benefits of the BLS one-piece truck floor