cross-border integration: Guangzhou Plastics Industry Group joins hands with new energy car companies to customize lightweight automotive interior parts.

Recently, Guangzhou Plastics Industry Group Co., Ltd. (Guangzhou Plastic Industrial Group Co., Ltd.) officially announced that it has reached a strategic cooperation with domestic head new energy vehicle manufacturers to jointly develop and mass produce a new generation of high-performance, low-carbon and environmentally friendly lightweight Automotive interior parts. This move marks the successful strategic transition from a traditional plastic supplier to a smart auto parts system solution provider, which has a history of more than 40 years.

Relying on its national enterprise technology center and Guangdong polymer material modification and molding engineering technology research center, Guangzhou Plastics Industry Group has broken through the key technical bottlenecks such as long glass fiber reinforced polypropylene (LFT-PP), low odor and low VOC flame retardant TPO and recyclable bio-based composite materials. The developed core components such as instrument panel skeleton, door panel body, passenger armrest and center console bracket have reduced weight by more than 35% compared with traditional steel structures, at the same time meet the C- NCAP five-star collision safety standards and the EU REACH, ELV directive requirements. All products have passed the IATF 16949 quality management system certification, and have entered the list of secondary suppliers of many new energy vehicle enterprises.

noteworthy that the project adopts the deep collaborative mode of 'joint design-synchronous development-localization delivery. Guangzhou Plastics Industry Group's newly-built intelligent lightweight component production base in Foshan has been put into production, equipped with a fully automatic injection molding line, laser welding workstation and VOC testing laboratory to realize integrated closed-loop manufacturing from material formulation, mold development to assembly assembly. Dr. Li Ming, technical director of the company, said: 'Lightweight is not a simple weight loss, but a systematic innovation of materials, structures and processes. We are transforming the designability, weather resistance and intelligent integration capabilities of plastics into key supports for automotive electronics and cockpit scenarios. '

this cooperation also highlights the transformation momentum of China's manufacturing industry's "specialized and special new" enterprises-Guangzhou Plastics Industry Group has continuously increased its investment in research and development in recent years, accounting for 5.2 percent of the research and development expenses in 2023, with a total of 47 authorized invention patents, 12 of which focus on the field of functional plastics for vehicles. Industry analysis pointed out that with the continuous increase in the penetration rate of new energy vehicles and the deepening of the 'double carbon' target, composite plastics companies with material-process-system integration capabilities will usher in a golden period of development. In the future, the group will also expand the application of carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic composites (CFRTP) in battery pack structural parts to further extend the value of the industrial chain.

As a benchmark enterprise in the plastics industry in South China, Guangzhou Plastics Industry Group is redefining the role of traditional material enterprises in the era with its solid technological accumulation and open industrial ecological view-not only to "plastic" products, but also to "smart" green travel experience.