{"id":166987,"date":"2024-11-14T11:41:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T10:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eurecat.org\/?p=166987"},"modified":"2024-12-24T10:01:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T09:01:58","slug":"eurecat-innovates-in-smart-fabrics-and-plastics-to-bring-functionalities-personalisation-and-comfort-to-car-interiors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eurecat.org\/en\/eurecat-innovates-in-smart-fabrics-and-plastics-to-bring-functionalities-personalisation-and-comfort-to-car-interiors\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurecat innovates in smart fabrics and plastics to bring functionalities, personalisation and comfort to car interiors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1424.8px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>This week at the Automotive Interiors trade fair in Stuttgart (Germany), the <a href=\"https:\/\/eurecat.org\/\">Eurecat<\/a> technology centre is showcasing new technological solutions and innovations which include shape-memory fabrics, visual comfort and electroluminescent filaments along with smart plastics to add functionalities to car interior materials.<\/p>\n<p>The automotive industry \u201cis fully engaged in digital transformation and also embedding new innovative solutions tapping new materials and processes leading to more customised, versatile and energy-efficient products and designs,\u201d says Alfred Beltran, Head of Business Development for the Automotive Market at Eurecat.<\/p>\n<p>Here, the technology centre is innovating to get functional fabrics for car interiors \u201cby using additives which make it possible to produce yarns with a specific response to the effects of light or temperature, making them glow or change colour,\u201d adds Virginia Garcia, director of Eurecat\u2019s Functional Fabrics Unit, alongside electroluminescent textiles based on printed light.<\/p>\n<p>Eurecat is also displaying the innovation in the Confort-TEX project aimed at developing and adding shape-memory polymer filaments to textile structures. The project seeks to optimise and characterise these new fabrics to increase their elasticity and adaptability without compromising breathability.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ultra-thin smart interface for the new generation of cars<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the inclusion of functionalities in materials, Eurecat is presenting the P\u00falsar project in which it has developed a smart plastic surface just 3 millimetres thick which has an interface that allows users to communicate with a machine, software or intuitive system with built-in LED lighting and capacitive sensors which is expected to be embedded in the central electronic system of the new generation of cars.<\/p>\n<p>The innovation has been developed at Eurecat\u2019s plastronics pilot plant specialised in functional printing and embedded devices and which enables the \u201cintegration of low-cost, high-performance printed electronics inside plastic structural parts,\u201d adds Paul Lacharmoise, the director of Eurecat\u2019s Functional Printing and Embedded Devices Unit.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":163486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2296,742,435,422,743],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-automotive","category-fires-en","category-functional-fabrics","category-functional-printing","category-press-notes-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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