DuPont Automotive offers world-class materials and global application development resources to help the industry cost-effectively manufacture reflective, directly metalized headlamp bezels with distinct personality to support vehicle styling.
Key Facts:
* More than 140 vehicle lines use Crastin® PBT resins in highly reflective, direct metalized
bezels.
* More than 11 million vehicles on the road today around the world rely on Crastin® PBT in
bezels.
* Reduce resin cost up to 40 percent compared with high-heat resistant polycarbonate and
other specialty PEI, PS type products.
* Reduce VOCs, up to 30 percent per part by eliminating secondary paint operations compared
with headlamp bezels of standard PBT.
The Hottest Materials in Automotive Lighting
* Crastin® PBT thermoplastic polyester resins are optimized for high-gloss surface appearance
straight from the mold, dimensional stability, high flow, ultra-low hazing and impact
resistance in the high temperature environment.
* New grades of renewably sourced Sorona® EP are in development to bring higher gloss finish
straight from the mold, low condensibles to prevent fogging while providing environmental
benefits of using products that contain between 20% to 37% renewable material. Talk to us
about these new products.
Combining highly engineered Crastin® PBT resins, innovative manufacturing techniques plus design and development support enables direct metallization of automotive headlamp bezels in a way that ensures higher yields due to fewer defects, reduces mold deposit, mold plate-out for greater uptime and significant productivity improvements.
Manufacturing Techniques
The DuPont solution taps the inherent heat resistance and thermal stability of Crastin® PBT and adds technical support to optimize design, tooling and machinery to enable direct metallization and ensure high yields for significant cost savings.
The unique “art to part” offering ensures long processing runs and high yields are achieved by reducing outgassing, mold deposit. Vast experience gained from launch on more than 140 vehicle lines brings results that reduce scrap rates, improve uptime and productivity. Talk to us about “how.”
Automotive headlamps – a significant opportunity to add personality to vehicle styling – can now be manufactured more cost effectively through a new “Design-Materials-Processing” solution developed by DuPont Automotive.
