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Automotive
Lightweight
Light materials that pull
Even automotive heavyweights benefit from
superlight polyurethane applications in the interior.
If you want to save weight in car interiors, you’ve now got two new, super-light
materials to resort to: Elastoskin ® , a new polyurethane spray system for highgrade,
soft-touch surfaces for instrument panels, door modules, armrests, and
center consoles – in cars and commercial vehicles. And Elastoflex ® E, the ideal
material for the immaculate back-foaming of films, skins and leather.
Minimal weight with boundless possibilities.
For decades, lightweight construction has been one of the central goals of
automotive development. And over the same period, the specialists in the
BASF Polyurethanes research labs have been continually coming up with new
and remarkable solutions. The Elastoskin spray skin for interior applications in
cars, trucks, buses and even tractors again sets new standards. Skins made
with the new Elastoskin spray technology are up to 35 percent lighter than PVC
and 20 percent lighter than a conventional polyurethane skin. This technology
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