Styron Automotive has an extensive product line of polypropylene compounds and systems for automotive applications. These materials are approved to key OEM specifications and cover a wide range of performance targets.
Styron's talc-filled INSPIRE polypropylene resins have been developed for aesthetic automotive applications, with good scratch resistance and UV light stabilization. They are especially suitable for car interior applications requiring ductility, because of their high impact resistance, even at low temperatures.
Besides talc-filled polypropylene resins for interior application, Styron offers natural talc-filled performance polymers exhibiting high flow characteristics in combination with a high impact resistance and a high stiffness, which are excellent for bumper fascia applications.
INSPIRE™ long glass fiber polypropylene resin (LGF PP) is one of a number of systems that helps improve automotive component impact resistance and durability. The glass content of the molding material determines the basic stiffness of the component, and increasing glass content results in improved part stiffness levels. Choosing a material composition and manufacturing process that achieves desired glass fiber length distribution is critical to meeting part performance requirements specific to a targeted application. Styron's material science and characterization knowledge, combined with design engineering, processing knowledge and program management, allow Styron to offer OEM and tier customers an opportunity to meet or exceed vehicle performance targets at lower weight and cost.
