Bayer MaterialScience to highlight innovations in automotive and LED sectors at Fakuma

Bayer MaterialScience will focus on presenting its latest developments in the automotive and LED lighting sectors and about new production processes at Fakuma.

A kaleidoscope of design variations for car interiors will be on show, says Bayer MaterialScience. The exhibits will be ranging from matt, textured and high-gloss structures, coated and metalized surfaces, and attractive colors to the design of displays with three-dimensional surfaces.

The company adds that the DirectCoating / DirectSkinning technology co-developed by Bayer MaterialScience enables the manufacture of decorated components in a single step. Another production concept originates from Gerhardi Kunststofftechnik in Lüdenscheid, Germany. This uses just one master mold to create a whole range of decoration variants with Bayer polycarbonates, which facilitates customized design for small-volume production.

For LED lighting technology, Bayer MaterialScience has developed a broad spectrum of materials for various general lighting and automotive applications. They include products for display and light control technology. Focusing lenses, optical fibers, diffuser and light-directing elements, reflectors and thermally conductive housing components, for example, are manufactured from polycarbonate resins, films and sheets.

In addition, with the development of the customized TPU material Desmosint for selective laser sintering, the company is making a contribution to establishing this process for rapid prototyping and small-volume production. Layer for layer, laser sintering can even produce complex parts with cavities and undercuts that were previously impossible to manufacture using injection molding.

Working with cooperation partner Lehmann & Voss, initial successes have been achieved which confirm the excellent potential that the company sees in this development, notes Bayer MaterialScience.