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Automotive Heavy Weight Vehicle

Exterior:-

1.Front grill carrier

Borouge and Borealis produce a special line of polypropylene (PP) compounds that bring a number of advantages to the production of front grill carriers.

Heavyweight components and parts require the use of materials that provide weight savings without compromising the durability and performance of the vehicle.

Added to these performance issues, truck manufacturers must also cope with increasing cost pressures that force the industry to reduce development times and production process complexity, while boosting productivity and maintaining performance .

In addition, automotive manufacturers want their vehicles to be lighter and more energy efficient.

Our Nepol™ polypropylene compounds enable heavyweight vehicle manufacturers to produce front grill carriers that are:

  • Lower in density
  • Maximize the potential for downgauging of wall thickness
  • Offer better CLTE.

In addition, we work in close co-operation with the OEM and Tier 1 and can offer state-of-the-art CAED engineering support.

2.Exterior fascia

To reduce complexity and costs in the production of the exterior fascia, automotive manufacturers prefer cost-efficient, environmentally friendly materials that can be used in a streamlined conversion process without affecting design or functionality.

In addition, the exterior fascia should maintain a smooth, high quality surface appearance.

For heavyweight vehicles, Borouge and Borealis have developed a polypropylene (PP) solution that outperforms Sheet Moulding Compounds (SMC).

Our Daplen™ for heavyweight vehicle fascia offers:

  • An all-PP solution that is environmentally friendly
  • Lower density, providing a weight saving of 35 %
  • Significant improvement in flowability
  • Lower material cost
  • Lower CLTE
  • Competitive mechanical properties
  • Lean production
  • Scrap rate only 1 %

In addition, we work in close co-operation with the OEM and Tier 1, offering state-of-the-art engineering support for the fascia.

Interior:-

1. Dashboards

Dashboards are key components of a vehicle's interior design, influencing a consumer's experience in the truck. 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 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.

Our Daplen™ range of polypropylene (PP) resins for dashboards offers:

  • Excellent scratch resistance
  • Low gloss
  • High quality perception of the surfaces
  • Good processability 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.

2. Door panels

Door panels are key components of a vehicle's interior design, influencing a consumer's experience in the truck. 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 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 panel 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.

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.

3.Interior trims

Interior trims include centre consoles, pillar trims, and seat claddings.

To enhance the appeal of a truck'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.

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
  • High productivity, low scrap rate

Borouge and Borealis also work in close co-operation with OEMs to provide state-of-the-art CAED engineering support.

Under The Bonnet:-

1.Area Intake Manifold

Our Borecene™ polyethylene (PE) rotational moulding grades are widely used when manufacturing air intake manifolds in heavyweight vehicles.

These applications frequently have complex designs that require good flowability of the production materials. The enhanced mechanical performance of our Borecene grades also allows for higher service temperatures compared to conventional materials or a weight reduction of the overall air intake, while retaining the superior mechanical performance of the product.

2. Battery cases

Borouge and Borealis have developed a tailor-made polyproplyene (PP) grade for injection moulded battery cases. This material has been designed specifically for high-end battery segments where the use of conventional polypropylenes is not acceptable.

Our BC545MO is ideally suited for injection moulded battery cases, providing an optimum combination of mechanical properties, such as durability and surface appearance. This polypropylene plastic solution delivers the following benefits:

  • Excellent impact-stiffness ratio
  • Very good heat stability due to tailor-made additivation
  • Very good surface appearance, due to low stress whitening