SMCCreate 2025

The 3rd edition of the SMCCREATE design conference will take place on November 4-5, 2025 in Prague, Czech Republic. This event is organized by the European Alliance for SMC BMC in close collaboration with AVK. Bringing together designers, OEMs and material experts, the latest SMC/BMC developments, novel applications and sustainability performance will be discussed.

Participation in this leading European event is a must for design and engineering professionals in the industry, as it will provide you with many practical insights on designing with these versatile materials. Interested to learn more? For program details and registration please check out this link.

SMC BMC materials offer exceptional flexibility to the designer: designs based on moldable SMC BMC can produce highly complex, multi-functional parts which cannot be realised in metals. 

• SMC BMC closed sections can be designed to take the same loads as steel, while the density is much lower

• The coefficient of linear thermal expansion for SMC BMC is close to steel and aluminium

• The ‘spring-back’ associated with steel or aluminium does not exist with SMC BMC

• Low Profile Class A System shrinkage is zero or no more than ½ mm/m

• Tools are built directly from the designer’s mathematical calculations

• Read-through effects of SMC BMC are very low compared to thermoplastics

More details on designing with SMC and BMC you can find through the SMC BMC design guides 1. Design for Manufacturing, 2. Painting SMC and BMC.

AOC offers many products for SMC and BMC

AOC is the leading supplier of resin formulations for SMC and BMC, with solutions for structural applications (incluing for carbon SMC), Class A+ (passenger cars, trucks), Electrical, Industrial and Consumer. Already over many years, AOC has been helping SMC BMC manufacturers and part fabricators in delivering quality components in high volume manufacturing processes. The basis for this continued success is a combination of AOC formulation robustness, product performance predictability and close collaboration with customers in fine-tuning production processes and new application developments. More details on AOC products for SMC BMC you can find in the AOC Product Selector Guide. 

rPET-based Products from Post-Consumer Waste

Fossil-based raw materials used for these formulations may become scarce in the future.  Therefore, AOC is increasingly using post-consumer recycled PET bottles as raw material, and making available to the market a broad range of rPET-based products covering the majority of composites transformation processes.

Also for SMC and BMC, we have rPET-based resin solutions available, which provide a reduction in product carbon footprint (GWP) and bring processing robustness through their inherent MgO thickenability. This also will help you to meet upcoming legal regulations on recycling content of composites (ELV). More details you can find here and in our rPET-based resins brochure Keen to be Green.