Let's accelerate together and make your vehicle interiors even more attractive and functional
Interior concepts for your future model range must remain true to the vehicle brand – just the same as the car exterior – to attract prospects, buyers, and the drivers of tomorrow. Today, high-quality plastics are used to produce many elements of the driver's cockpit and car interior. Innovative technologies will open up completely new perspectives in this area. The highly efficient combination of different production steps helps you to make components ever more economically. As the global market leader, LEONHARD KURZ is on the ball when it comes to future trends and the road to success for automobile manufacturers and automotive suppliers. Our designers, developers, and engineers have the right expertise and creative spirit to come up with ideas, inspiration, and practical plastic solutions to get you ahead. And if we say ‘ahead’, we mean it!
Working with KURZ in technology and production means taking a new and different approach! Because our job is to give plastic components in vehicles even more potential through refinement and technical sophistication. We do not content ourselves with well-known properties, but always derive new, valuable characteristics from plastic for the automotive industry. From the attractive start button to begin the journey, through new comfortable steering wheel functions, to the touch-controlled Human-Machine Interface (HMI) with seamless curves: you can now effectively upgrade the interior of your car too. Our creativity in aesthetics, functionality, and production specifically for the future of the car doesn’t stop there. Besides inspiration, numerous new solutions can be realized now and in the future.
The name KURZ stands not just for plastic decoration and surfaces with completely new looks and diverse feels. For years, we have specialized in the adhesive bonding of sensors on wafer-thin substrates directly to the plastic. The result is components for cars which, in addition to attractive surfaces, also bring integrated functions into the vehicle interior. We help you produce plastic-based chrome parts for instrument panels, on-board computers, navigation devices, and air-conditioning - with real chrome plating without electroplating and chrome VI. With KURZ solutions, you can apply partial, full-surface, or even two-sided decorations on flat, curved, polygonal, small, and large surfaces. From shiny to matt, from chrome to carbon, with an exclusive wood-chrome look, a rich velvet matt effect, or elegant piano lacquer. But above all else, capacitive sensors can create exciting functionalities that the driver calls up with a gesture or touch:
Large, curved, and non-reflective touch control panels with seamlessly installed surfaces to protect against dust and dirt
Smart HMIs with a fascinating user experience thanks to backlight-enabled buttons and controllers instead of mechanical devices
Touchpads and steering wheel switches that start to glow in ON mode and give the driver feedback via a vibration feature
Door trim and other decorative elements boasting a backlit day-night design with color change, to enhance atmosphere and exclusivity in the vehicle
KURZ offers a variety of decoration methods such as hot stamping, Inmold Decoration (IMD) or insert molding, which can be used to implement a wide variety of designs. UNICOLOR, woodgrain, and technical patterns are just as possible as different degrees of gloss and a fascinating feel
Our processes are characterized by quick decoration changes, enormous efficiency, and outstanding surface resistance to scratches, wear, UV rays, moisture, sunscreen, and cleaning agents
In addition to an attractive dead-front design, backlighting and other features can be created by integrating sensors in all decorating processes. Capacitive PolyTC® sensors with a wafer-thin, flexible metal-mesh structure provide functional enhancements: from lighting and light changes to useful additional features for ease of use and convenience
Surfaces equipped with functions can be controlled by the driver via tapping or swiping
With this information, we would like to give you motivation and suggestions for current and future development paths in the automotive interior segment. Our specialists look forward to teaming up with you to create technical solutions for your future plans. On the basis of our long-standing core competence for automotive Tier 1 and Tier 2 manufacturers as well as automotive OEMs, you are in the best of hands from the initial idea right through to series production. KURZ focuses on the complete solution that starts with practical consulting, sets targets with machine and production specifications, and, moreover, supports you with a tailor-made remote service package for maintenance and production optimization. Take us at our word!
