Yesterday, the reporter walked into Yantai Linghua New Materials Co., Ltd. and saw that the production line in the TPU intelligent production workshop was running intensively. In 2023, the company will launch a new product called ‘genuine paint film’ to promote a new round of innovation in the automotive clothing industry, “said Lee, the deputy general manager of the company. Yantai Linghua’s core technology and products have obtained multiple authorized patents and invention patents, breaking the monopoly of foreign brand technology and achieving the localization of high-performance TPU paint protection film.
TPU paint protection film is known as the “invisible car cover” of automobiles, with super toughness. After the car is mounted, it is equivalent to putting on a soft “armor”, which not only provides long-lasting protection for the paint surface but also has self-cleaning and self-healing functions. Lee said that “real paint film” not only protects the car paint with “invisible car clothes”, but also provides rich colors, making the car clothes no longer limited to protective functions. At the same time, it has fashionable dressing attributes and meets the personalized needs of car owners.
Yantai Linghua is a full industry chain manufacturer of automotive paint protection films, focusing on the research and development, production, sales, and service of high-end aliphatic thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer (TPU) films. At present, the company has established cooperative relationships with a large number of downstream customers worldwide, and achieved a significant increase in operating revenue in 2023.
A thin invisible car suit requires a considerable amount of technical expertise. It is understood that for many years, the Chinese car film industry was dominated by imported products. Even if domestic enterprises produced it, most of them bought imported raw films to apply coatings, which not only had high costs but also had to be controlled by others. The original film relies on imports mainly because it cannot solve the problem of yellowing. To overcome this technological challenge, the company has invested heavily in purchasing raw material particles and has collaborated with well-known research institutes and universities in China to conduct joint technical research. Ultimately, the technological bottleneck has been overcome and a raw film with super strong yellowing resistance has been developed. The original film has been localized, and the retail price of finished car clothing has been reduced to about one-third of imported car clothing.
In recent years, Yantai Linghua has continued to develop new quality productivity, focusing on the improvement and research and development of raw materials, and continuously optimizing and transforming imported equipment to improve production efficiency. Nowadays, Yantai Linghua has built a core R&D team covering elastic polymer materials, mechanical equipment, coating engineering, and film production processes, with a leading level of technological research and development in the industry.
In 2022, Yantai Linghua developed the integrated molding technology of nano ceramics and TPU, and launched a new product “True Paint Film” in 2023. The product has the hydrophobic and oleophobic properties of the ‘lotus leaf effect’, which solves the problems of poor stain resistance and insufficient paint glossiness of traditional car clothes. It also has new functions of self-cleaning and simulation of car clothes, achieving the effects of ‘high gloss, self-healing protection, and true paint texture’.
As the main initiator and drafter of the industry standard “Automotive Paint Protective Film” issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Yantai Linghua said that the goal of the enterprise is to build the world’s largest R&D and production base for the entire industry chain of automotive paint protective film, so that consumers can go from supporting domestic products to following domestic products.
Post time: Jul-16-2024