Extrusion International USA 1-2019

58 Extrusion International 1/2019 LAMINATING FILMS Cost pressure in the automotive industry is a constant. The OEM’s are expecting interior products like door-uppers, armrests or even entire door panels and instrument panels to have excellent quality at a very economic price. Vacuum laminating is the key to this success utilizing high automation to insure the best product quality at the lowest price level. Kiefel’s answer to this high customer demand is the newly designed and developed “Tailored Blank Laminating” Technology and Machine The new highly automatedmodular Kiefel vacuum lamination systemutilizing the TBL process (Tailored-Blank-Laminating) New Tailored Blank Laminating Technology (TBL) – intelligently automated Laminating station of the TBL vacuum lamination system