Ebook Article
Alongside performance, the automotive user subconsciously classifies the perceived value of a car by the interior trim. So it’s not surprising to find that low-end carmakers are increasingly aiming at high-end cockpits, whilst the premium suppliers are doing all they can to maintain the distance between them and the low-end sector. The foremost aim of all suppliers is to instill the feeling that only leather trim can effectively convey. The Old Thinking about injection moulding, film for the medium sector, skins for the premium range, has gone by the board. The winners today are the 2-component technologies that are increasingly replacing painting of the injection moulded parts and are making inroads into film applications. For their part, the films are steadily encroaching on what used to be the exclusive preserve of skins.