Design Guide 3 ‘Sustainable Living with SMC BMC’
In 2022, the European Alliance for SMC BMC launched the 3rd edition of its well-known Design Competition, seeking ideas and proposals for using these versatile materials. This edition’s topic was “Sustainable Living”, challenging young designers to create novel products and solutions for our living environment, for keeping us healthy, use less space, or minimize energy consumption.
The winner of the Gold Award of the SMC BMC Design Award 2022 was Isa Buitenhuis, student Industrial Design at Technical University Delft. During the award ceremony at JEC World 2022 she presented the LightTurn, a new experience for seated showering targeted at elderly consumers, providing great ergonomics to the user, durability, low water usage and a wonderful design. In this design guide you can read about her winning design project, her experience with SMC BMC, and the follow up with the members of the SMC BMC Alliance.
SMC and BMC are composite materials ideal for making light and intricate parts that combine structural performance with a smooth surface finish. For that reason, SMC and BMC are increasingly used in a broad range of end-use applications and markets. The European Alliance for SMC BMC is launching a series of design guides that explain to designers how these versatile materials can be used, and manufactured in larger production series.
