Adient plc announced its latest breakthrough innovation, Sculpted Soft Trim. This unique product offers fresh aesthetics and new design opportunities for vehicle seats. Sculpted Soft Trim is a soft, breathable, formed trim solution that can be used to create large trim panels or smaller, simpler parts like rear seat child seat anchor trim covers, armrests, headrests or other intricate parts.
It utilizes an automated process to form these parts, reducing the amount of sewing required compared to today's trim covers. Sculpted Soft TrIM offers advantages in areas of complex sewing and concave surfaces, reducing trim patterns and sewing labor while improving challenging craftsmanship executions. Details can be added to seat trim through that were previously not achievable with traditional seat trim methods, offering new levels of design freedom.
Among the many benefits and uses of Sculpted Soft Trim: Enables easy execution across a wide range of fabric and vinyl materials; Complex 3-dimensional shape and concavity is achievable, without washing out grain detail; Detailed parts such as belts or child seat anchor pockets can be replaced with the trim to reduce sew labor and improve craftsmanship, with consistent results; Embossed/debossed textural patterns can be added easily in the same tool and process and, additionally, graphics and badging can be easily created for customization or to differentiate between brands; Dissimilar materials can be pre-sewn and formed, offering a wide variety of trim options.
