slush molding

[′sləsh ‚mōld·iŋ]

(engineering)

A thermoplastic casting in which a liquid resin is poured into a hot, hollow mold where a viscous skin forms; excess slush is drained off, the mold is cooled, and the molded product is stripped out.

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Plastics processing

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There's a new way to make soft skins for automotive interior door panels, instrument panels, and consoles that is said to save considerable cost and weight compared with current methods such as slush molding or injection molding of TPV skins.

Now You Can Injection Mold Unpainted Automotive Soft Skins: New S-TPE for interior trim challenges slush molding and TPV competition

These air mats are usually manufactured by slush molding, involving several steps.

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The upper portion of the instrument panel is a padded slush molding that is separated by the harder plastic lower section by a bright trim strip.

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PVC/ABS thermoformed skins for instrument panels (IP) have lost market share to slush molding and polyurethane spray in both North America and Europe.

Slush molding, PU spray gain in IP applications. (Market Focus)

Electroformed nickel shells provide good performance in the manufacture of unsupported molds for rotational molding, slush molding, blow molding, and vacuum forming.

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Avon Lake, Ohio, reportedly has performance equivalent to industry workhorse 810TM linear trimellitate plasticizer and is formulated for wire/cable and automotive slush molding.

High-performance PVC plasticizer

The researchers tested a formulation used in injection molding and two powders used in slush molding, which, though similar to rotational molding, applies only partial biaxial motion during processing.

Engineering resins for rotomolding: underused materials could support rotational molding's future growth

ACC Molding Systems was established to provide the European Union and neighboring continents with equipment for dip molding, dip coating, slush molding, flow molding and cast film processing.

ACC Molding Systems Ltd. begins operation in England. (Acquisitions, expansions)

slush-molded SBC skins can be made on the same equipment as for PVC slush molding but reportedly are much more efficient, due to lower molding temperature and up to 30% thinner skins.

Four key markets drive advances

Also, there is a need for developing better material and a better process for slush molding TPO skin.

Can We Expect A-Olefinic Interiors in Cars of the Future?

Schulman unveiled a licensed technology for Inteva Products (formerly Delphi Interiors & Closures), which consists of a hybrid TPE for slush molding IP skins to replace slush-molded TPU or sprayed urethane.

TPEs move up the performance scale: this first of two articles on directions in TPE development focuses on styrenic, copolyester, polyamide, and TP urethane elastomers. The following article covers olefinics--TPOs, TPVs, and POEs

These parts were initially produced by extrusion, but calendering and slush molding could also become feasible production methods with the introduction of new TPOs.