Lightweight Vehicle Interior solutions
Polyolefins for automotive interior solutions
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Dashboards are key components of a vehicle's interior design, influencing a consumer's experience in the car. In turn, this consumer experience plays a vital role in customer satisfaction and brand profiling. The interior needs to visually appeal to the consumer, reflecting the use of high quality of materials.
In order to meet the quality perception demands of consumers, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) require materials with high aesthetic performance, including:
Haptics,
Low gloss,
Scratch resistance,
Colours.
Added to these aesthetic requirements, OEMs must also deliver on performance, designing interiors that have low thermal expansion and no emissions, fogging or odour.
As production costs are another key consideration in choosing interior materials, OEMs typically select materials that provide ease of processability and reduced scrap rates.
Choosing the right materials for your interiors
Borealis' Daplen™ range of polypropylene (PP) resins for dashboards offers:
Excellent scratch resistance,
Low gloss,
High quality perception of the surfaces,
Good processibility and low scrap rate,
Good impact behaviour.
In addition, we work in close co-operation with the OEM and Tier 1 and can offer state-of-the-art CAED engineering support.
Read more about our dashboard solutions in our Skoda Fabia case story.
Learn more on our product grades for dashboards or contact us for additional information on how Borealis can help you.
Interior trims
Interior trims include centre consoles, pillar trims, trunk tailgates, and seat claddings.
To enhance the appeal of a car's interior trim, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) select materials that provide the same gloss, scratch resistance and colour effect for all visible components in the interior.
The main materials requirements for interior trims include:
Excellent scratch resistance (MAR nail scratch test),
Low gloss,
High dimensional stability,
Wide processing window.
These material properties will enable OEMs to produce components and parts for their interior trims which are consistent in surface quality, ensuring an excellent overall optical effect and a high standard of performance.
In addition to aesthetic performance, these applications must be able to resist different mechanical stresses. From a safety perspective, the material's balance of impact resistance and stiffness helps parts to achieve industry crash test requirements.
Answering to the challenge of quality interior trims
Our Daplen™ range of polypropylene (PP) resins for interior trims offers:
Excellent scratch resistance,
Low density (weight saving),
Good haptic (surface feel),
Excellent mechanical properties,
Low emission and fogging.
Borealis also works in close co-operation with OEMs to provide state-of-the-art CAED engineering support.
Read more about our interior trims in our Mercedes C-class case story.
Learn more technical details on our product grades for interior trims or contact us for additional information on how Borealis can help you.
Door claddings
Door claddings are key components of a vehicle's interior design, influencing a consumer's experience in the car. In turn, this consumer experience plays a vital role in customer satisfaction and brand profiling. The interior needs to visually appeal to the consumer, reflecting the use of high quality of materials.
In order to meet the quality perception demands of consumers, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) require materials with high aesthetic performance, including:
Haptics,
Low gloss,
Scratch resistance,
Colours.
Moreover, the door cladding plays a crucial role in protecting occupants in the event of frontal and side impact incidents. Side door claddings must resist splintering upon impact or side impact from airbags. This necessitates excellent mechanical properties which also help meet the demands of crash tests.
For the comfort of passengers, very low values regarding emission, fogging and odour are required.
To cope with cost pressure, the automotive industry needs to find ways to increase productivity at reduced scrap rates, as well as reducing development times.
Daplen™ brings excellent scratch resistance and mechanical properties
Our Daplen range for door systems offers:
Excellent scratch resistance,
Low density - lower material costs and less weight,
Good haptic (surface feel),
Excellent mechanical properties,
Low emission and fogging,
High productivity, low scrap rate,
Less diversity in materials for the entire door cladding system.
In addition to our polypropylene (PP) resins, we also work in close co-operation with the OEM and Tier 1 and can offer state-of-the-art CAED engineering support.
Read more about our door cladding solutions in our Volkswagen Passat case story.
Learn more technical details our product grades for door cladding or contact us for additional information on how Borealis can help you.