Janicki Industries' Composite Tooling Speeds Custom Car to Market

Janicki Industries worked with car company Local Motors, fabricating composite patterns and molds for their new Rally Fighter off-road racer. Janicki produced thirty-two unique molds in just 60 days so that the Rally Fighter could be introduced at the Specialty Equipment market Association (SEMA) show in early November. The molds encompassed all the exterior body panels and windows for the Rally Fighter.

Mount Vernon, WA (PRWEB) November 19, 2009

Sedro-Woolley, WA (PRWEB) November 19, 2009 -- Janicki Industries has again demonstrated its ability to provide complex multiple sets of composite tools for quick-turnaround projects. Working with the new American car company Local Motors, Janicki Industries prepared 32 unique molds from 36 machined patterns. This encompassed all the exterior body panels and windows of Local Motors’ new Rally Fighter off-road racer.

Local Motors’ timeline was driven by their desire to launch the Rally Fighter at the biggest specialty automotive show in the U.S. - the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Show, November 3-6, 2009.

Start to finish, the 32 unique composite molds took Janicki Industries just 60 days to produce and ship. The first Rally Fighter body panels were popped off the molds just five days later in a two-week push to the finish line.

According to Janicki engineer James Diedesch, “The timeline was extremely tight, but we jumped at the chance to work on such an exciting transportation project. This is an incredible car design, and we really wanted to participate in bringing it to market.”

The Rally Fighter was designed by Sangho Kim, Local Motors community member and design student at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. The entire Local Motors community worked together to develop the Rally Fighter. Local Motors (http://www.local-motors.com) invites anyone with a passion for cars to collaborate in an open design process on each new vehicle. Now home to over 4,000 car designers, engineers and enthusiasts, their community is the largest of its kind – and the only one to bring a new car to market.

About Janicki Industries: Janicki Industries is a technical engineering company that creates composite tools, prototypes and production parts for transportation, aerospace, space and defense, marine, wind energy and other innovative markets throughout the world. For more information please visit: http://www.janicki.com/.

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