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(borealis) -- FIAT has once again
turned to lightweight, cost-competitive materials from Borealis and Borouge,
leading providers of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, to achieve
top-level aesthetics and performance for interior and exterior components on its
new Fiat Panda.
Borealis and Borouge's polypropylene (PP) automotive
innovations combine a host of high-performance mechanical properties and
processing advantages designed to ease production, and enhance the quality and
surface finish of vehicle interiors and exteriors. In addition, the lightweight
polyolefins offer vehicle weight savings when used to replace traditional parts
materials, contributing to a reduction in fuel consumption. Borealis has
assisted the company's enhancement of performance and aesthetics of interior and
exterior vehicle parts on models recognised for their safety and cutting-edge
designs such as the Alfa Romeo Giulietta and Fiat 500.
For the new Fiat Panda, Tier One supplier Magneti Marelli successfully used
high-performance Daplen thermoplastic olefin (TPO) compounds from Borealis
to achieve consistent parts with the visual appeal and safety-related
performance to meet FIAT's stringent quality requirements and technical
specifications. |
