New Requirements for the Development of Automotive Interior Materials

According to a new report from Coherent Market Insights (Seattle), the global market of automotive interior will be witnessed a huge growth in 2024. It’s reported that, in 2015, there were more than 90 million car output, while this number increased to 95 million in 2016 around the world, there into, Chinese car production and sales were over 28 million, which creates a beneficial environment for the auto interiors markets. 
 
If now we calculate at 300kg of modified materials per car, the interior parts account for 180kg, which means there are over 5.04 million tons materials will be consumed by the Chinese automotive interior market. (Kindly reminder: please refer to the official data.)

The global automotive interior material market is full of competitive and also very uniform. Although the market share shows differently, what the market demands of the materials are unidied.
 
Here are some significant points:

1.Energy-saving and lightweight

Lightweight will be an important principle for the selection of interior decoration materials. For example, the low-density materials for door panels and columns, micro-foaming materials, which applied to the dashboards and door panels etc.. As interior become lighter, there will be more higher requirements of interior materials, such as the strength and modulus for low-density, the liquidity and stiffness of thin wall materials, the fiber content of glass fiber reinforced materials.
 

2.environmental protection

Try the best to choose low-vocs, non-sprayed materials, as well as recyclable and natural materials, such as wood fibers. The environmental protection of materials will be the basis of green cars and manufacturing.

3.Sensory quality

The final user of the auto interior is the people who driving, so when the manufacturers select the material and design the cars, they should insist to the humanization design principles, considering the vision, touch, hearing and taste of the passages.

4.The safety and reliability of vehicle interior materials

We should pay much attention to choose some flame resistance materials, while such materials need to cater to the environment protection, to reduce harmful smell. In addition, safty is the first when  selecting strength, heat resistance  and abrasive performance of materials. In general, during the development trend in the future, the manufacturers will be more focused on the consumer’s experience and also will try to create an environmental, clear, and comfortable surroundings. Let’s wait and see.