The Renolit stand (A4085) at AIE will be showcasing the complete Renolit Composites range of established polypropylene based materials. This includes Renolit Wood-Stock, along with a wide variety of other highly formable sheets, rolls and rigid cored composite products, all specially developed for cost effectively fabricating coated automotive interior trim parts.
This year there is a special focus on its latest ‘star product’ innovation, Renolit Tecnogor. This next generation, thermoformable sheet and roll material has already gained a leading position in the global automotive interiors market with major OEM end customers. German, Italian, French and Japanese car makers now use Renolit Tecnogor for a variety of thermoformed, custom coated, vehicle interior 3D trim parts. Successful applications include: parcel shelves, load floors, seat back covers, dashboard inserts and trunk trims.
Renolit Tecnogor is a safe, clean, 100% recyclable, glass fibre (GF) reinforced, PP based, lightweight thermoplastic composite material. It has been specifically designed to cost effectively produce automotive interior trim parts. Tier 1 converters are able to combine superior part performance with consistent quality and higher productivity, while also achieving lower production costs as it can be 3D shaped in a ‘glue free’ one-step-process.
The stiffness and impact performance of Renolit Tecnogor is thanks to the patented PP/GF composition and extrusion process used. It is also very safe to form and handle, as there are no free floating fibres in the air or exposed glass fibres in the finished moulding; all glass fibres are completely encapsulated in the PP polymer matrix during extrusion. Like virtually all products in the Renolit Composites range, it can be provided with a textile or film applied to the surface.
During the show, a technical presentation titled: ‘Renolit Tecnogor: A clean glass fiber composite for interior applications’ is being given by Adriano Odino, technical director at Renolit, who will be joined by a materials expert from an Italian carmaker to explain why Renolit Tecnogor was chosen for parcel shelf applications.
