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Summary: Adoption of 'High-elastomer-contained and High-crystalline polypropylene' as the base resin to reduce the amount of expensive 'added rubber' and simplify the material production process, especially compounding. These helped achieve significant cost reduction of material.
Weight Savings: None.
Cost Savings: 30%.
Most Innovative Feature: Adoption of 'High-elastomer-contained and High-crystalline polypropylene' as the base resin
Other Innovative Features: Due to the adoption of the new base resin, the amount of expensive 'added rubber' could be reduced and the material production process, especially compound process, was simplified. These helped achieve significant cost reduction of material.
Forming Process: Injection molding
First time process used?: No
Previous Process Used: PP-Rubber-Talc material, Injection molding
Tooling Innovations: None
New Material Developments: High-Elastomer-contained and High-Crystalline Polypropylene was developed as the base PP for this newly developed PP-Rubber-Talc material
Weight Savings: Same as the current material
Direct Cost Savings: 30%
Indirect Cost Savings: Same as the current material
Direct Consumer Benefit: N/A
Translates to other Vehicles?: Yes, it can be to all vehicle lines.
Safety Benefits: Same as the current material
Environmental Benefits: Due to the simple material manufacturing process, CO2 may be reduced from the material production process.
Additional Info: Toyota's current material for Instrumental Panel, TSOP is already significantly high-performance material. This newly developed material has the equivalent high-performance as TSOP with 30% less cost.
