Recycled resins can meet performance requirements on products which were initially designed for virgin materials. Olefinic instrument panel (I/P) scrap is being recycled from the Mazda Tribute and the Ford Escape into glove box bins. As a result, a quality part is being supplied to the customer and Visteon's Saline Plant has realized both increased plant operating efficiencies and landfill cost avoidance.
The development process is described including: plant regrind sources, part molding and testing.
Citation: Pavlowski, M., Wichterman, B., Garrett, M., Bondar, R. et al., "Fully Recyclable Olefinic Instrument Panels," SAE Technical Paper 2002-01-0310, 2002, https://doi.org/10.4271/2002-01-0310. Download Citation
Author(s):
M. Pavlowski, B. Wichterman, M. Garrett, R. Bondar, S. Gretka
Affiliated:
Visteon Corporation
Pages: 7
Event:
SAE 2002 World Congress & Exhibition
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Related Topics:
Instrument panels
Molding
Recycling
Forming
Resins
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