TAGS: Automotive Thermoplastic Composites Green and Bioplastics
The RENOLIT COMPOSITES business unit has added a new production line in India and the Asia Pacific region to produce new, innovative and 100% recyclable RENOLIT TECNOGOR lightweight and PP based thermoplastic composite material and meet the growing demands of automotive industry in India.
Innovations at New Production Line Design
A key feature of the new production line design is the inclusion of RENOLIT’s patented extrusion processing technology for manufacturing the innovative, new, 100% recyclable, RENOLIT TECNOGOR glass fiber (GF) reinforced, PP based, lightweight thermoplastic composite material. High quality 3D trim parts can be consistently thermoformed in a high productivity ‘glue free’ one-step-process, which reduces production costs.
Meeting the Demands of Automotive Industry
The RENOLIT COMPOSITES products now being produced in India are primarily aimed at Tier 1 thermoformers supplying automotive OEMs in India and Asia Pacific. They offer vehicle producers a safer and more environmentally friendly material solutions to cost effectively fabricate, automotive trim parts. The patented fiber embedding extrusion technique makes RENOLIT TECNOGOR a clean, safe material to use on the shop floor and handle post molding. This is because all the glass fibers are completely encapsulated in the PP polymer matrix during extrusion, so there are no free floating fibers in the air during lay up or exposed on the molded part surface. This will be a major safety benefit to customers in the Indian market, which currently mainly uses glass fiber mats to produce composite molded parts.
Technical director of RENOLIT COMPOSITES Adriano Odino commented, “
The highly skilled blue collar workforce quickly learnt how to efficiently produce all the grades that the new line can extrude to RENOLIT’s stringent specifications and quality assurance standards. The new line in Pune is now fully operational and open for business.”
The versatile new line can not only produce RENOLIT TECNOGOR, but also RENOLIT DEEP-STOCK, RENOLIT FLEXIGOR plus RENOLIT WOOD-STOCK which was the only RENOLIT product manufactured in India until now. “For many years we could only offer the classic RENOLIT WOOD-STOCK sheet range.
We are very pleased to be able to now offer our clients a wider range of sustainable products which offer solutions to real problems the market is facing using traditional glass fiber mats”, said Rahul Chivate, General Manager of APPL GOR Plastics India.
Source: RENOLIT