{"id":727,"date":"2017-11-14T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asahi-kasei.com.sg\/APS\/?p=727"},"modified":"2017-12-28T09:55:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T01:55:57","slug":"mahindra-mahindra-mm-technology-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asahi-kasei.com.sg\/APS\/mahindra-mahindra-mm-technology-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahindra &#038; Mahindra (M&#038;M) Technology Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asahi Kasei exhibited at the \u201cMahindra Technology Day\u201d that was held in India, Mahindra Research Valley (MRV) in Chennai on November 14 (Tuesday). The MRV was set up in 2012 as Mahindra\u2019s Group commitment towards technology-driven innovation. The R&amp;D centre serves as an innovation hub of engineering research and product development for automotive and tractors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In order to meet the commitment to UN and moving towards a cleaner environment, India Government decided to Leapfrog BS V to BS VI in 2020 and <span lang=\"EN-GB\">work towards an all-electric-vehicle (EV) dream by 2030.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> With the initiative of India Government, major OEMs like M&amp;M is moving into exploring metal replacement and EV developments to reduce vehicle overall weight as well as CO<sub>2<\/sub> emission reduction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">APS has been targeting specific applications in the automotive industry particularly in <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">metal replacement and <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">EV battery. Therefore, APS decided to participate in this exhibition in order to raise the profile of Asahi Kasei performance plastics, gather the latest development information and expand the sales of performance plastics for automotive and EV battery applications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The exhibition was organized by Asahi Kasei India (AKI) and participated by many Asahi Kasei stakeholders such as APS and Automotive Marketing Division (AMD). The exhibition consisted of Asahi Kasei\u2019s micro devices, fabricated products, commodity and engineering plastics and Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) capability. AMD shared with Mahindra\u2019s team on Asahi Kasei\u2019s concept car \u201cAKXY\u201d \u2013 4 wheeler vehicle made with only Asahi Kasei\u2019s material.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">During the 1 day show, various projects PIC came to exchange information and discussed on possible new developments. For APS booth, we have received many interests on APS engineering plastics and technical know-how.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asahi-kasei.com.sg\/APS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mahindra-Mahindra-MM-Technology-Day.png\" alt=\"mahindra-mahindra-mm-technology-day\" width=\"922\" height=\"549\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asahi-kasei.com.sg\/APS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mahindra-Mahindra-MM-Technology-Day.png 922w, https:\/\/www.asahi-kasei.com.sg\/APS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mahindra-Mahindra-MM-Technology-Day-300x179.png 300w, https:\/\/www.asahi-kasei.com.sg\/APS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mahindra-Mahindra-MM-Technology-Day-768x457.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 922px) 100vw, 922px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asahi Kasei exhibited at the \u201cMahindra Technology Day\u201d that was held in India, Mahindra Research Valley (MRV) in Chennai on November 14 (Tuesday). The MRV was set up in 2012 as Mahindra\u2019s Group commitment towards technology-driven innovation. The R&amp;D centre serves as an innovation hub of engineering research and product development for automotive and tractors.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asahi-kasei.com.sg\/APS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asahi-kasei.com.sg\/APS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asahi-kasei.com.sg\/APS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asahi-kasei.com.sg\/APS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asahi-kasei.com.sg\/APS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.asahi-kasei.com.sg\/APS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":732,"href":"https:\/\/www.asahi-kasei.com.sg\/APS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asahi-kasei.com.sg\/APS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asahi-kasei.com.sg\/APS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asahi-kasei.com.sg\/APS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}