The car carries our life, is the tool of mobility and travel, but also a participant and recorder of our life. For the car, everyone has their own special emotions, and the protection of the car also varies. For car foot mats, everyone's initial intention is to protect the car and facilitate cleaning. But as the price of the car increases, we all love the car more and more.
What is TPE material?
TPE (Thermoplastic Elastomer) is a thermoplastic elastomer material with high strength, high resilience, injection molding processing characteristics, a wide range of applications, environmental protection, non-toxic safety, excellent coloring.
What are the advantages of TPE foot mats?
Compared with the traditional leather foot mats using splicing, synthetic production process, TPE foot mats can be molded into a one-piece injection molding, eliminating the use of glue and other additives, so that the foot mats are not subject to external influences, so that there is no odor, does not stimulate the human body.TPE also has a good waterproofing, can be rinsed with water to take care of more convenient.
At present, TPE foot mats are divided into two kinds of injection molding process and vacuum molding process:
There are a lot of TPE foot mats on the market will use the blister process, while the car original factory will use the injection molding process. Blister process to develop a model of the mold cost is lower, while the injection molding process to develop a model of the mold cost is higher, what is the reason for the original automobile factory in the cost difference or insist on choosing the injection molding process? Mainly through the injection molding process and suction molding process to do a big difference:
Difference in raw materials: injection molding process is required to develop 100% pure TPE material, while the blister process is often mixed with TPO or TPV and other TPE mix, from the material on the purity of the blister is not as good as injection molding. Therefore, the one-piece injection molded full TPE footbed, the texture will be more flexible, closer to rubber, feel better. The suction molding process is hard, similar to plastic, long-distance driving when the heel will feel more tired.
Durability differences: injection molded TPE foot mats have resilience, the use of late encounter deformation as long as the deformation of water poured on, or put in the sun for a certain period of time can be restored to the original molding appearance, restoration of the service. And the blister molding process foot in the use of 1-2 years will appear curled edge, and can not be restored back.
Full TPE foot mat and surface layer TPE foot mat differentiation
There are two kinds of TPE foot mats on the market, one is injection molding full TPE foot mat, and one is surface layer synthetic TPE foot mat. Injection molding full TPE footbed, as the name suggests, is 100% TPE material for injection molding processing and become, this footbed is the mold is a one-piece injection molding, the development cost is high, the processing does not require the use of adhesives to ensure that the footbed of the airtight waterproof and environmentally friendly. Surface layer of synthetic TPE foot mats, is only the surface of the use of TPE layer, the middle is still the use of elastic foam layer and other materials, essentially no difference with the leather envelope, low development costs, rely on the stamping or glue synthesis, the unity is not good, synthetic materials are still susceptible to odors at high temperatures.