WE CREATE INTERIORS
Our products combine design, innovation and sustainability
Overheads
We provide out clients with global solutions and local support in order to satisfy our client’s needs as regards sustainability, weight reduction, customization, improved safety, design and comfort. Our multi-technological offer and a complete network of production plants and Just In Time centers allow us to pursue any level of integration anywhere in the world.
We maintain our position as leaders by enhancing research in innovative solutions. We are committed to the development of more ecological and lighter Light & Green headliners by using natural fibers, foams and green adhesives. Our efforts are also focused on including advanced fabrics that improve perceived quality and functionality, as well as new fastening system concepts for modular headliners.
We are flexible in order to satisfy the needs of each of our clients, from simple trim to the most complete modular integration, which provides our headliner trim with the complex functionalities, turning them into modular systems that include the following components:
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We have a large variety of state-of-the -art technologies to transform materials and surfaces. These technologies are applied according to client requirements, providing optimal solutions in weight reduction, cost, esthetics, acoustics, portability and safety.
Main headliner substrate technologies
Green foams
We offer a large variety of customizable solutions that are pioneers in sustainability and environmental respect such as the green foams made mostly of a natural polyol known as NOP (Natural Oil Polyol) that is obtained from ricin seeds, a renewable source that does not compete with human food. These foams meet high requirements for elasticity, stiffness, low weight, acoustic absorption and low smell and emissions; in addition, the production process, which begins with natural oils, is more simple and safer. |
Multi-technology in all segments
All our technologies adapt to each market to satisfy the most varied requirements as regards weight, safety and customization, complying with the demands of all segments.
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We provide added value to the needs demanded by our clients, including several functions that adapt to the complexities of current headliners:
- Various positions
- A variety of linings: PVC, fabric, Samoa fabric (Grupo Antolin), Alcantara (Alcantara SpA), leather and no lining
- Various types of mirrors
- Lighting
- Ticket holder
- UGDO/HomeLink (Gentex)
- Extension
- Double sunvisors
- Airbag labels according to vehicle sales market
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Our efforts are focused on advanced strategic lines to reduce weight, LED lighting, customization, lowering thicknesses and linings.
Sunvisor technologies
- Body in PP
- Body in EPP
- Body in PP without lining and stamped finish
- Carton with metal frame and foam
- Foam of PE with skeleton
SKY-FX, our first lighted headliner
Our interest in producing a comfortable environment in the vehicle interior and our profound knowledge of the headliner product have made it possible to launch the SKY-FX on the market; a headliner with integrated lighting that offers multiple design and customization options. An innovation patented by Grupo Antolin that makes us leaders in this sector.
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SKY-FX: Design – Customization – Comfortable environment
The headliner is lined with SWAN, a specific fabric developed by Grupo Antolin that possesses high customization properties. A flocked fabric which, in this case, consists of several layers of different materials to comply with all the necessary requirements (elongation, opacity, easy cleaning, abrasion and light resistance).
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After trimming, the headliner is lasered with a process prepared for various designs and shapes, resulting in a variety of possibilities, such as day and night effects. A multicolor variation (RGB) is also a possibility.
STAR-FX
Our first lighted headliner in the market opens the doors to new markets and product variants, such as multicolor lighting and the STAR-FX, a concept based on lighting integrated in the headliner with LEDS that define a variety of drawings and shapes.
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Panoramic headliner
There is a growing trend in the market to increase the glass surface of the top of the vehicle in order to achieve better vision, lighting and sense of space.
Thanks to our profound knowledge and domination of the headliner function, mechanisms and electronics, we offer a variety of panoramic headliner solutions with integrated glass and headliner, using two basic technologies: manual and electric. These windows include increasingly advanced materials and reinforcements that provide excellent levels of rigidness and safety to the vehicle.
Panoramic windshield
Wish (Windshield Integrated System Headliner) is our response to the current demand for panoramic windshields, a system that provides passengers with the enjoyment of a sensation of almost unlimited space and visibility that meets all the requirements for ergonomics, comfort and perceived quality. Safety is also guaranteed thanks to the rigid build of the passenger compartment and the high level of stability offered by the panoramic windshield.
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DOORS
In recent years, the door function has been the main protagonist of our company’s expansion, currently representing 32% of total sales. Multitechnology, maximum integration, global implementation and flexibility for handling a wide range of versions positions us as leaders regarding this function.
The door is an essential design component in which multiple features converge. It has transformed into a carrier of diverse components: electric and electronic devices, lighting, padding, and acoustic features which provide safety and comfort.
We are experts on trims for doors and mechanisms, a technological synergy that allows us to offer a broad scope of modular solutions. We develop, manufacture and sequence door panels that integrate innovative product-process technologies and materials seeking to reduce weight.
As regards mechanisms, our extensive range covers from simple power windows through to complex modules and intelligent systems. Manufacturing power windows of materials like magnesium and plastic reduces the amount of required components, resulting in decreased weight and improved properties.
Due to the product’s peculiarities, the traditional assembly chain for doors is enormously complex. Our solution is the module: it makes compatible technical and functional features with design, safety and perceived quality, while simplifying the assembly chain. Furthermore, our door modules are lighter, thanks to technological applications for lowering weight and optimizing materials.
Modules are supplied by sequencing plants, simplifying the assembly process and the management of diversity and quality, undeniably impacting global efficiency in economic terms. These solutions allow us to offer our clients an extensive technology offer, perfectly adapted to their requirements.
Plastic cassette – Door Hardware Module, DHM
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Incorporates Banjo-type power windows, in single and double track versions for front doors. Plasma-treated, polyurethane waterproofing system that permits plastic applications. Another technology applied during the process is the shape of the profile for manufacturing power window tracks.
DTM Door Trim Carrier Module
This is the maximum exponent of modular integration. The door panel is transformed into an element that houses all functions and integrates waterproofing, safety, power windows and electronics. The DTM permits the same assembly sequence, simplifying assembly processes and facilitating diversity and quality in client-management, regardless of the vehicle’s models or variants.
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Our multi-technological offer in door panels allows us to provide each market and client with optimal solutions. We supply panels for vehicles across all segments by integrating weight-reduction technologies.
We supply door panels in numerous and diverse variants, integrating a large variety of technologies (injection, spray-skin, thermoforming, ultrasonic welding, hot-riveting).
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Door panels technologies
Thermoforming:
- Woodstock (wood sawdust +pp)
- Blown woodstock
- Natural fibers + pp
- Thermoplastics sheets (abs, pp,…)
- Wood fibres with thermoseting resins
- Cotton fibers with thermosetting resins
- Natural fibers with thermostting resins (pur / epoxi)
- Hardboard (wood sawdust pressed with natural and phenolic resins)
Injection:
- Standard injection molding
- Back injection molding
- Injection compression molding
- Extrusion – compression
- Biinjection
- Gas injection
- In mould decoration
- Pur injection (open tool)
- Pur injection (closed tool)
- Pur overinjection
- Soft touch Grupo Antolin
Post-process:
- Welding / riveting: Ultrasonics, High frequency, Vibration
- Covering: Vacuum with films (PVC,…), Pressing covering, In mould graining
- Cutting: Lasser, Waterjet, Hot knife, Punching
Edge wrapping:
- Ultrasonics, Hot air welding, Glue application
We are specialized in doors for high-quality premium vehicles in different technologies. Our ideas fit in our clients’ modular strategy and can be easily implemented in series production. |  |
Since 30 years ago, we develop and manufacture power windows for doors of any morphology as another component of the Door Function, meeting all requirements as to quality, cost, weight and simple assembly on the client’s own chain. Our added value consists of providing solutions ranging from steel and stamped aluminum to magnesium and plastic injection for all segments. We are the only European-wide certified supplier for aluminum and magnesium power windows. |  |
Cable window regulator:
- Single rail: Steel / Aluminium / Plastic
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- Double rail: Steel / Aluminium / Plastic
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Window regulators for doors without frame:
- Front: Magnesium / Plastic
- Rear
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WINDOW REGULATOR ELECTRONICS
Our advances focused on electronics are a key element of our products, responding to the challenge posed by the integration of increasingly complex electronic functions in the automobile.
We have extensive experience in designing, validating and integrating motors in power window systems. These motors incorporate an anti-pinch protection electronic systems, enabling automatic and safe activation as well as integration within the vehicle’s electronic communication networks.
We offer our clients complete Tier I service, both as regards Engineering as well as industrial supply, participating across all levels and all phases of these electronic motors’ life cycles (conception, prototyping, validation, integration and control of production), for which we count with a top-level network of suppliers.
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COCKPITS
WE IMPROVE LIFE ON BOARD
With a wide range of technologies and processes, we create cockpits with style, convenience and functionality suitable for vehicles differentiation and customer value maximization. Currently representing 21% of total sales.
A cockpit module usually integrates the instrument panel, center console and several control functions as well as wiring harness, instrument cluster, steering wheel… We have proven capability to supply fully assembled cockpit modules built to sequence and shipped just in time. Due to more efficient use of our clients’ floor space, increased assembly plant flexibility and opportunity for increased throughput is achievable. |  |
The instrument panel is a key element of the cockpit module, a sophisticated system of trims, foams, composites and metals that houses various components, acting as a safety device for the vehicle occupants.
Seamless leather Passenger Airbag (PAB) system
First in industry to supply seamless leather PAB system. Innovations in processing and unique cutting methods were required to achieve ‘burst-through” leather. We supply seamless PAB IPs in hard and soft surfaces, including foam in place, laminate, and hard plastic.
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Print Mold Design (PMD)
An industry first, PMD is the injection molding of shaped and double-sided screen printing foils. Using foils of up to 1 mm in thickness allows for an array of design possibilities, such as strong 3D effects, that are not achievable through any other technology. The material resists scratching, fading and cracking. PMD is highly flexible in volume production and offers unparalleled distinguishing characteristics for vehicle interiors.
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IMC PVC Surface
This technology combines in-mould coating with a powder slush process, and allows painting an instrument panel with a two tone color surface in a one step process. Through this technology it is possible to control the haptic feedback separately from the optic appearance. The tactile feel can range from velvety to rubbery.
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Our floor/central consoles could help achieving sufficient driver-accessible storage, a top consumer complaint across all vehicle segments.
We offer a flexible storing space between the front seats, while integrating different functions useful for the end users. Additionally, in order to prevent annoying squeak & rattle, our designs are fully validated to ensure best quality including the perceived one.