Design

Your idea, our talent

Everything starts with your idea – the client’s idea. It’s with you that we experience and develop every step of the manufacturing process until we reach a feasible idea – technical constraints included. The key word is cooperation; our goal: a credible style.
That is why our design turns out to be solid, with a unique style and with an eye to the product feasibility from the very first rendering.
Our design department is able to support the client throughout the following steps:

  • Handsketches
  • 2D Rendering
  • 3D Renderings
  • C-B-A Classes
Whatever your starting point is, we will be there – with you.

Engineering

We have gained long-standing experience thanks to our team of more than
70 skilled technicians who can easily perform the following engineering steps together
with the design department or with the client itself.

1. Project feasibility

Legal requirements

Check of Targets

Check of allowable Technologies

2. Product development

ETP has reached several and significant experiences on the following type of vehicles:

  • Minivan
  • Small & Medium Cars
  • Sports/Luxury Cars (coupè e spyder versions)
  • Concept-car for car makers
  • Agriculture vehicles
  • Goods vehicle
  • Military defence vehicles
  • Snow groomers

ETP has an in-depth knowledge for the following areas of a Vehicle Project:

  • Body in White
  • Closures (Hoods, Doors, Tail Gates, etc.)
  • Chassis
  • External & Inner Trim
  • Cockpit
  • Accessories (even in codesign): Steering wheels, Mechanical devices (Simple & multiple Hinges), Handles, Latches, Sound system, etc.

ETP has an in depth knowledge of the following technologies

For Structural parts:

  • Steel sheet metal
  • Aluminium Alloy sheet
  • Metal & Die-cast
  • Extruded
  • Composite

For Cockpit & Trim:

  • Injection moulding
  • Foaming
  • Vacuum calendered skin
  • Slush-moulding skin

For special applications:

  • Roto-moulding
  • Vacuum forming

3. Also

In partnership with other companies ETP is able to provide:

      

Stress & crash analysis calculation

      

Sheet metal forming simulation

      

Mould flow, warpage & warcooling

      

Prototypes/demo model construction

      

Cost Saving

      

Reverse Engineering