Recently, the German Ineos Styrolution company and the French Roctool company for the new generation of appearance with thermoplastic composite materials Stylight developed ⼀ a rapid manufacturing technology.

Stylight thermoplastic composites were first unveiled at the 2016 German international plastics and Rubber Fair (K-Show), and recently, through collaboration with KTM technology, the product has been innovative in selected applications in the automotive industry.

This cooperation with Roctool company aims to develop high speed and high efficiency production process for the decoration thermoplastic composite materials.

According to the cooperation between the two sides, induction processing technology is very suitable for stylight plate manufacturing, fully able to meet the industrial production of high surface quality thin-walled components of the need, production cycle shortened.

Roctool company omitted a process step, that is, when the mold temperature is high, omit preheating process, directly to the lower temperature of the stylight plate heat suppression.

If the prepreg fabric is placed directly in the mold, another process step can be omitted and the production cycle is shortened further.

Roctool Company conducted a large number of experiments with stylight aesthetic s as sample.

The sample is specially designed for the appearance of a semi-structured part. The experiment obtained two kinds of block products, one kind of surface covering hexcel carbon fiber, the other one surface covered Sateks (Saertex) The non buckling carbon fiber fabric reinforced black surface felt.