In recent years, the development of automobile industry revolves around lightweight, environmental protection and multi-function. As for automotive lightweight, modified plastic is the essential automotive lightweight materials, which can not only reduce the quality of parts by about 40%, but also reduce the purchase cost by about 40%. This promotes its use in automobiles to rise rapidly these years.
The amount of automobile plastic accounts for about 8% of the total consumption of plastics and 10% of the total weight of automobiles. The main varieties are PP, PU, ABS, PS, SAN, SMA, PVC, PE, etc..
Application of polymer material in Auto interior:
v Automobile dashboard
Automobile dashboard generally ABS/PC, enhanced PP and SMA as the main materials. Because these material has the advantages of impact resistance and good comprehensive performance. In order to improve the recyclability, dashboards made of thermoplastic polyolefin TPO, modified polypropylene PP skeleton and polypropylene foam materials are being developed.
Door interior panel
Similar to dashboard materials, it is also made of skeleton, foam and leather. The skeleton is molded from ABS, and the leather is usually a synthetic leather, a composite of PU foam and knit polyester fiber.
Auto seat
The main coating layer is fabric, artificial leather,natural leather. The seat cushion is usually made of PU foam, which can significantly improve the comfortable feeling of passengers.
Steering wheel
The steering wheel is generally made of heat& cold-resistant and wear-resistant materials. Therefore,modified PP, PVC, PU, ABS are widely used in this area, the skeleton is generally selected as steel skeleton. Glass fiber reinforced PA is also used to replace the steel to achieve lightweight.
Car floor mat
Car floor mats are generally made of aesthetic composite polymer material (such as rubber, PVC, wool).
To sum up, polymer materials have good processing performance, excellent decorative effect and eco-friendly significance of sustainable utilization. Compared with traditional materials, plastics also have obvious shortcomings, such as low heat resistance, Weatherability is not ideal and so on.
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