Passenger compartment components
The fittings of the vehicle interior include many different components made of fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composites. In particular, versatile and inexpensively processed SymaLITE is becoming popular for more and more new applications – not least because it can be combined at the production stage with functional or decorative cover layers to customer specification.
Here are a few examples of the use of GMT/GMTex and SymaLITE components in the passenger compartment: Headliners, sun roofs, rear window shelves, seat and backrest constructions, seat covers, and linings of doors, pillars and luggage compartments.
Applications in Europe
Material: SymaLITE
Part Information: Weight: 2 x 1.7 kg
Dimension: 2 mm x 1300 mm x 480 mm
Thickness: 8 to 10 mm
Functions:
Seat back of the 3rd seat row and load floor in case of
folded away seats
Technologies:
Two-step-moulding with interior cover stock on both sides
Advantages:
- Low tool investment and economic processing
- Very good toughness behaviour
- Very good tensile properties
- Good acoustic absorption
- Ductile failure - robust handling
Material: SymaLITE
Part Information: Weight: 2 x 1.8 kg
Dimension: 2 x 1250 mm x 1105 mm
Thickness: 8 to 10 mm
Functions:
Seat back of the 3rd seat row and load floor in case of
folded seats
Technologies:
Two-step-moulding with interior cover stock on one side
Advantages:
- Low tool investment and economic processing
- Very good toughness behavior
- Very good tensile properties
- Good acoustic absorption
- Ductile failure - robust handling