Consumers appreciate a personalized vehicle interior with a premium feel and appealing design. The automotive industry and its suppliers are therefore focused on design freedom, but also want to reduce the energy consumption, logistics effort and costs associated with the production of the components. Covestro is offering a solution for all these desires that is DirectCoating. This technology enables the efficient production of coated components with tremendous design freedom in regard to appearance and haptics.

Today plastics dominate the automotive interior. Components are typically injection-moulded from a thermoplastic and then, in a second step, coated on a coating line at a different location to create the desired appearance and haptic properties.

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