Together, a step towards the distant future 

In an extraordinary development and production partnership with Swissloop, GF Casting Solutions demonstrated its lightweight expertise – and made a key contribution to the team’s remarkable success in the visionary Hyperloop Pod Contest 2017. With GF’s support, the team hopes toachieve a major coup in 2018. Although Swissloop did not achieve the finals at the recent SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition in Los Angeles (US), the students can be very proud of themselves for making it that far. GF wishes the team much success for their further journey!

Enabling the Swissloop pod, a transportation capsule weighing just 244 kilograms, to cover the one-kilometer test route as quickly as possible required ultra-light components as well as a powerful drive system. As the main sponsor and a specialist for lightweight components, GF Casting Solutions provided ambitious and committed support to the team by developing and producing an aluminum component for the pod’s chassis.