One's first impression of a car is based on its interior components, such as the dashboard, the console and the door panels. They immediately convey a pleasant sense of comfort, solidity, luxury or sportiness. In fact, they are the result of choices in materials, techniques and very precise processes which aim to achieve the desired effect. As an expert in manufacturing hides by slush technology, ILPEA constantly carries out research on materials and processing in order to obtain a higher quality finish, lower fogging and better weather resistance while optimising costs and assuring that every effort is made to increase environment friendliness and recycling (12 international patents).

In order to reduce the costs and facilitate recycling, ILPEA manufactures hides with a controlled degree
of gloss which do not require surface paint. Through a special mould treatment ILPEA is in a position to
manufacture double-gloss hides used for top class cars.
In addition, ILPEA has developed two-coloured hides with bulk-coloured PVC powders ( world-wide
patented) and hides made of new PVC-free materials such as TPO, TPU and Polyesters.
The technique using foamed PVC, TPO and TPU is based on the double slush process which forms
hides with a compact and foamed layer (worldwide patented).

During this process the rigid carriers can be formed by free casting thermosetting Polyurethane onto
the foamed layer and then shaped by punching. Through the double slush process, hides incorporating
the foamed layer are obtained by using only one material (mono-material concept), thus avoiding the
foaming step.
This results in cost reduction and improvement of the technical features of the product, such as weight
reduction and facilitation of recycling. AUDI, VW, SKODA, SEAT, PEUGEOT, RENAULT and VOLVO
use ILPEA’s hides for several of their car models.