LFT-D: materials tailored for new applications

Fraunhofer ICT and partners have combined the LFT direct process technology with high gloss polymer films for exterior body panels. The technology is a promising starting point for the manufacturing of large automotive exterior parts. Oliver Geiger, Dr Frank Henning and Prof. P. Eyerer of Fraunhofer ICT, Germany, and R. Brüssel and Heinrich Ernst of Dieffenbacher GmbH & Co KG, Germany, explain.