According to Covestro, trends such as autonomous driving and interconnected mobility provide important opportunities for the future use of thermoplastic polyurethane films in automobiles.
The materials company will address this topic at the 'Folien + Fahrzeug' ('Film + Vehicle') meeting and will explore the development of thin film technology for automotive interiors.
The company Leverkusen, Germany, highlighted the potential of TPU film in the interior of automotive interiors during the preview rehearsal for the February 6-7 meeting. In the manuscript, Oliver Hennig, a film specialist from Covestro, uses "Silent Heroes" to describe TPU materials, pointing out promising applications including flexible electronics where the flexible TPU film is equipped with electronic functions such as tracking or transmission Sense element.
'LEDs can also be integrated,' says Hennig. "The resulting film combination creates a highly complex, geometrically decorated part that provides lighting effects. '
'TPU films are extremely flexible and have good adhesion to the fabric surface, for example, which provides the best prerequisite for integrating the required conductor circuit electronics into the door panel.'