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Automotive Body and Composites

High-performance exteriors for safer, lighter and more fuel-efficient vehicles.

By incorporating high-performance automotive composites and technologies like polyurethane foam and carbon fiber, you can manufacture automotive body parts and panels for next-gen vehicles that are safer, lighter, and more fuel-efficient than ever before. With Dow, smart engineering is the foundation of safer vehicle design. 

Utilize carbon fiber and polyurethane foam insulation to create automotive exteriors and interiors. Discover how these innovative materials enhance the performance and safety of automotive body parts, driving the future of vehicle engineering.

Automotive Body and Composites

What solution is right for you? Browse our full product catalog for all automotive body and composite products.

Check out automotive body and composite applications

Bumper fascia, panels and trim

Dow materials help OEMs meet their performance needs for bumper fascia, panels and trims simultaneously. By replacing traditional metals and implementing thin-walling with solutions like ENGAGE™ 11000, we help deliver unparalleled lightweighting to reduce carbon emissions and improve battery performance. Our broad polyolefin elastomer portfolio expands the application space for recycled TPOs, unlocking new levels of design freedom, including translucence. View our bumper fascia, panels and trims product range to discover more.

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Striving for circularity with Dow’s modifier solutions

Circularity is the key to revolutionizing automotive sustainability and mechanical recycling is a pivotal step in this transformative journey. At Dow, we take it a step further by harnessing the power of modifier solutions to elevate the performance of recycled engineering polymers. Uncover the remarkable impact of modifier solutions for Automotive Thermoplastic Olefins (TPO), Polycarbonate (PC), Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene (ABS) and blends of PC/ABS. 

Cavity Foam

Cavity foam solutions from Dow offer highly custom support designed to meet unique noise, vibration and harshness (NVH), impact performance, fire resistance and insulation requirements befitting of a next-generation vehicle. In both internal combustion engines and electric vehicles, our solutions can be tailored to meet your needs for low-density and lightweight formulations. View our cavity foam product range in the product catalog to learn more.

BETAFOAM™

BETAFOAM™ acoustic open and closed cell cavity filling foams offer superior noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) reduction in vehicles. These two-component polyurethane foams serve as a cavity-sealing and blocking foam.

VORACOR™

This polyurethane foam delivers optimal performance at the right cost for high pressure systems. These light weight, energy efficient systems can also be tailored to meet regulatory requirements.

SPECTRIM™

With best-in-class processing and superior aesthetics, this wide range of foam systems is commonly used for exterior purposes in transportation applications.

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Customers are prioritizing comfort in automotive. Discover how BETAFOAM™ can help protect against noise and vibration.

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As demand for fuel-efficient vehicles grows, the use of innovative exterior composites becomes an area of opportunity. Whether looking for carbon fiber or thermoformable composites, our ENGAGE™ polyolefin elastomer can be tailored to meet your performance and production requirements. This includes lightweighting, weatherability, shorter cycle times, low temperature toughness and high filler loading capabilities, but also provides outstanding aesthetics and paint-ability. View our exterior composites product range to learn more.

Exterior trim

Check out Dow’s portfolio of products and solutions for exterior composites and trim.

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Why carbon fiber?

Discover the strength and power of carbon fiber composites for automotive.

Reaction Injection Molded

Our solutions for reaction injection molded (RIM) parts can be used to help enhance lightweighting, aesthetics, impact resistance and NVH performance of automotive exteriors. With our polyurethane foam systems, faster processing and greater design flexibility take the front seat. Additionally, modified MDI compounds are processed in a unique way, producing automotive bumpers, fenders, tires, wheels and more. View our RIM product range in the product catalog to explore. 

Reaction Injection Molded

See Dow's range of RIM products and solutions for automotive body and composite applications.

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