The newly developed and virgin raw material based compound POLYfill PP EP317R UV has both high scratch resistance and UV stability, together with excellent mechanical properties and unlimited colouration possibilities. These features makes the material an optimum choice for interior automotive applications.
The material also has three new siblings right from the start, based on both virgin plastic raw material and high-quality recycled plastic raw material. The four new materials have similar characteristics and properties that are adapted to the requirement profiles of different parts in an assembled product.
The newly developed materials are presented in the new COMPLUS Concept that Polykemi and Rondo Plast have informed about recently.
Door panels as an example of a suitable application
An example within the automotive industry is door panels, which are often complex assemblies consisting of e.g. carrier, door insert, armrest and side pocket – all with their individual specific requirement profiles. In this application, all four material alternatives within the COMPLUS PP Concept can be used.
Flexibility even late in the project process
The COMPLUS Concept means that you can choose the right material for the right parts. But even if you have made a correct material choice, the conditions can still change during the course of a project.
Then there is the unique opportunity to choose another of the four materials late in the project process, since the characteristics and properties are so similar. This can be done without having to modify or change the moulds – a fact that saves both time and costs.
– The material change can be done without jeopardizing either mechanical properties or quality, the materials are quite simply exchangeable. This is the concept we have now developed, explains Anette Munch Elmér.
