Multimatic, Toyota and Adient Named Winner in Module Lightweighting of the 2023 Altair Enlighten Award

MARKHAM, ON, Canada (August 1st, 2023) – Multimatic’s innovative ACCRA™ Superstructure, featured in the Toyota Isodynamic Seat, has been named the Winner of the 11th annual Altair Enlighten Award in the Module Lightweighting category. Presented in association with the Center for Automotive Research (CAR), the Altair Enlighten Award honors the greatest sustainability and lightweighting advancements that successfully reduce carbon footprint, mitigate water and energy consumption, and leverage material reuse and recycling efforts.

As the industry’s only award dedicated to vehicle lightweighting, the Enlighten Award drives automotive companies toward a more sustainable future. Altair is proud to recognize cutting-edge technological advancements that minimize energy consumption and carbon missions.

“Lightweighting is an essential element of sustainable mobility. It makes an overwhelmingly positive environmental impact throughout the entire supply chain, manufacturing process, and the product’s entire life cycle,” said Brian Burke, Executive Vice President, Multimatic Product Services. “Through the collaborative efforts between Multimatic, Toyota and Adient as well as leveraging our innovative Accra™ form-blow hardening technology, we achieved a significant mass reduction and optimized packaging space while improving torsional strength in key areas of the IsoDynamic Performance Seat SuperStructure.”

“The winners of the Enlighten Award showcase the latest revolutionary technologies and approaches that reduce carbon footprint, minimize waste, and maximize renewable energy,” said Richard Yen, senior vice president, global industry verticals and sales enablement team, Altair.  “We hope this award continues to inspire future generations to ‘think light’ for many decades to come.”

The 2023 Altair Enlighten Award winners were announced in an awards ceremony on August 1, 2023.  For more information on the Altair Enlighten Award and to see the full list of winners, please visit https://www.altair.com/enlighten.

About Multimatic

Multimatic is a privately held, global enterprise supplying components, systems and engineering services to the automotive industry.

Multimatic’s core competencies include the engineering and manufacturing of complex mechanisms, body hardware, suspension systems and body structures, as well as the design and development of lightweight composite automotive systems. In addition, Multimatic delivers niche vehicle design, development and production for road and race applications.

Headquartered near Toronto, Canada, Multimatic has manufacturing divisions and engineering facilities in North America, Europe, Asia, and alliance relationships with partners around the world.

Multimatic is comprised of five operating groups: Multimatic Mechanisms, Multimatic Structures & Suspension, Multimatic Engineering, Multimatic Niche Vehicles, and Multimatic Special Vehicle Operations.

For further information, please visit www.multimatic.com.