Plastic Technology Innovation Accelerates Automotive Lightweighting

According to China Drying News, global safety, environmental protection, and energy-saving standards have raised new requirements for automotive plastics technology. China's plastics industry is undergoing transformation from introduction to innovation, follow-up to guidance, and closure to opening in the process of automotive lightening. The pace of innovation in the development of new materials and plastics, composite materials, and processing technology has been further accelerated. This is the consensus reached by more than 200 Chinese and foreign representatives held in Luzhou, Hebei on November 28-29 for the 6th International Automotive Lightweight Plastics and Innovative Materials Development Forum.

Yang Dan, chief engineer of the non-metallic material room at the Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle Technology Center's Institute of Technology, believes that the lighter weight of automobiles depends on the wider use of plastics. Plastic strips, light weights, and lighter weights are the most lightweight vehicles. Effective way. Ma Haisong, an engineer of the Technical Development Department of FAW-Volkswagen Automotive Co., Ltd., also stated that the development of automotive plastics is closely related to the development of China's auto industry. Before 2003, most of the raw materials for plastic parts were designated by foreign parties. After nearly a decade of exploration and exploration, domestic companies continued to upgrade their independent innovation capabilities and gradually relied on importation, imitating foreign models, and developing new materials and processes. And the product design concept has made great progress.

Zheng Jian, Secretary-General of the China Synthetic Resin Supply and Marketing Association, said that China’s auto lightening process is accelerating, with the exception of plastic interior parts that have been widely used, high-performance engineering plastics, thermoplastic elastomers, micro-foam materials, and new fiber composite materials. The application of large-scale exterior parts, structural parts and carriers also shows an increasing trend. More extensive application of new materials and technologies has played an important role in improving the vehicle's dynamic performance, reducing fuel consumption, and reducing emissions. In particular, the development of new energy vehicles such as electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles is inseparable from the development of new materials and new technologies.

An important driving force for the development and application of automotive plastics comes from the cooperation between material manufacturers and automakers. This cooperation should be more open in the future. “The biggest problem we have now is the lack of access to the simultaneous development of participating OEMs. The closure of the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain and the lack of effective interaction mechanisms hinder the promotion and application of new materials.” Zhejiang Juner New Material Co., Ltd. Huang Zhijie, the general manager, represents the opinions of most material suppliers.