Quatro Composites OptiPart(tm) Design Process Validates Revolutionary Chassis Design for DiMora Motorcar $2 Million Automobile

Released on = August 13, 2007, 7:14 am

Press Release Author = Molly Sitzmann/Quatro Composites

Industry = Automotive

Press Release Summary = Carbon fiber leaders join DiMora Motorcar as the newest
Natalia SLS 2 Technology Partner

Press Release Body = Quatro Composites, a leader in carbon fiber design and
manufacturing, has become the latest Technology Partner to support DiMora Motorcar's
development of the Natalia SLS 2 sport luxury sedan. Their design parameter analysis
enabled DiMora to refine the design of its radical chassis-based upon carbon fiber
technology-that will be far lighter and stronger than those used in other luxury
automobiles.

A series of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) tests were performed on the Natalia's
chassis design at Quatro's Technical Development Center in Poway, California. The
proprietary OptiPartT methodology was used to develop an optimum product design for
improved performance characteristics for the world's first hand-built, $2 million,
16-cylinder production automobile.

"The primary goal of the analysis was to achieve optimal torsional and bending
stiffness of Natalia's revolutionary chassis, while also minimizing weight,"
explains Quatro's Development Engineering Manager. "Our OptiPartT design process
helps identify areas where the stiffness, strength, vibration characteristics, and
crash performance properties can be improved."

DiMora Motorcar Founder and CEO Alfred DiMora notes that "Quatro Composites has an
impressive understanding of the properties of carbon fiber technologies and the
innovations they facilitate. Their experience in aircraft design is directly
applicable to the Natalia SLS 2, as we integrate aerospace technology developments
as much as automotive innovations. Their analysis both validated our design and
identified places where a minor change would yield a major improvement in stiffness
or other characteristics. They are an important part of the DiMora design
development team."

Quatro's OptiPartT design service allows customers to optimize a products carbon
fiber design and composite manufacturability. Quatro designs and manufactures carbon
fiber composite components for a variety of industries. Corporate headquarters and
manufacturing facilities are located in Orange City, Iowa.

About Quatro Composites

Quatro Composites, a division of Tec Industries L.L.C, is an Iowa-based contract
manufacturer offering a full line of services from design, analysis, prototyping and
production of advanced composite structures. Quatro manufactures and engineers parts
of complex geometry using bladder molding, compression molding, autoclave and
ultraclaveT processes. The business operates in two locations, Orange City, Iowa,
(Headquarters, Manufacturing & Distribution) and Poway, California (Technical
Development Center). Please visit www.quatrocomposites.com.

About DiMora Motorcar

Based in Palm Springs, California, DiMora Motorcar crafts automobiles designed to
exceed expectations for safety, performance, technology, ecology, beauty, comfort,
and luxury. It reveals the design, production, and testing of these automobiles via
the Internet so that people around the world can participate in and learn from the
process.

The founder, CEO, and driving force behind DiMora Motorcar is Alfred J. DiMora, who
produced two of America\'s finest luxury automobiles, the Clenet (as owner) and the
Sceptre (as co-founder). He and the Clenet were inducted into the Automotive Hall of
Fame in 1986 for the Centennial Year of the Gasoline-powered Automobile. He also
founded Starbridge Systems, Inc., where he developed the world\'s fastest FPGA
supercomputer. With his technological and automotive backgrounds, Alfred DiMora
blends the two worlds together to create this new experience in automotive history,
the Natalia SLS 2 sport luxury sedan. Please visit www.dimoramotorcar.com.


Web Site = http://www.quatrocomposites.com

Contact Details = 403 14th St. SE
Orange City, IA 51041
7127079200
7127079202

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