Grupo Antolin’s sustainable headliner for vehicle interiors wins plastics recycling award

Grupo Antolin has received the prestigious Plastics Recycling Award Europe 2022 for its sustainable modular headliner for automobile interiors. Antolin has been awarded in the classification Automotive, Electrical or Electronic Product of the Yr.

This achievement recognizes the very first headliner substrate on the market place produced by thermoforming unique supplies (PU foam, textile and plastic reinforcement) created from urban & publish-shopper plastic squander and end of lifetime tires. Thanks to this undertaking, which is presently staying produced for the Volvo C40 Recharge, a completely electric powered SUV, Antolin aims to reduce waste and energy consumption in the course of producing and to fulfill the desire for eco-welcoming interiors, a thing progressively valued in car buyers’ choices. The successfully project has been the final result of the collaboration amongst Grupo Antolin and some Tier 2 suppliers.

“As a globe leader in motor vehicle headliners, Antolin has the reducing-edge technologies, experience, and capabilities to offer a additional sustainable car or truck inside trim by encouraging our prospects to create environmentally friendly solutions. The Wet PU technological innovation has demonstrated to be the most aggressive in terms of price and excellent, fulfilling at the exact time the most demanding requirements from our clients”, claims Enrique Fernandez, Innovative Engineering Director of Grupo Antolin’s Overheads Organization Device.

Organised jointly by Plastics Recyclers Europe (PRE) and Crain Communications, the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2022 winners were introduced on June 23 at the Plastics Recycling Demonstrate Europe in Amsterdam.

This award recognises achievement throughout the scope of the European plastics recycling market. The awards present an insight into current developments in recycled product utilization, merchandise style and revolutionary manufacturing.