Back Injection Moulding

It enables the integration of decorative and functional surfaces directly onto structural substrates. This process allows seamless bonding of textiles, foils, or soft-touch skins with high-strength plastic bases, enhancing both aesthetics and durability. Ideal for complex automotive interiors, it ensures design flexibility, lightweight efficiency, and consistent quality across large-scale production.

Key USPs:

• Combines decorative surfaces with structural components in one process.
• Delivers premium finishes with high durability.
• Supports lightweight and complex part designs.
• Ensures repeatability and efficiency in mass production.

Compression Moulding

This technology is used to make lightweight, high-strength components with excellent dimensional stability, making it ideal for structural and aesthetic interior applications. By applying heat and pressure to advanced materials, complex geometries can be formed with precision, enabling thinner profiles, reduced weight, and consistent quality. It also supports sustainable material use, ensuring performance without compromising environmental goals.

Key USPs:

• Creates lightweight yet durable automotive components.
• Enables complex geometries and precision detailing.
• Supports sustainable material applications.
• Consistent quality for high-volume production.

Injection Moulded Soft Skin (IMSS)

Soft-touch interior surfaces demand precision and consistency, both of which are delivered through IMSS technology. This technology creates a light weight, high quality soft touch surface while utilising materials with improved environmental credentials. IMSS also provides higher levels of dimensional accuracy than the other established processes in the creation of foam-in-place soft touch products.

Key USPs:

• Creates soft-touch surfaces with premium textures.
• High levels of dimensional control and accuracy.
• Used in conjunction with other Artifex technologies to provide airbag doors.
• Lighter weight solution with enhanced durability, comfort, and visual refinement.

2D & 3D Hard Tool Lamination

Precision lamination using hard tooling enables seamless bonding of decorative films and functional layers onto flat and contoured surfaces. This process delivers dimensional accuracy, durability, and consistent finishes across a wide range of complex geometries. Suitable for both simple 2D parts and advanced 3D shapes, hard tool lamination ensures lightweight construction without compromising strength or aesthetics. It is widely used in premium interiors to achieve uniform surfaces, improved material stability, and high-quality visual appeal.

Key USPs:

• Accurate lamination for 2D and 3D geometries.
• Consistent finishes across complex shapes.
• Lightweight construction with enhanced durability.
• Premium aesthetics for interior applications.

Laser Weakening

Precision is critical in airbag integration, and laser weakening ensures controlled, invisible seams that guarantee reliable deployment. This technology uses focused laser energy to create precise tear lines in instrument panels and other safety-critical components. The process allows manufacturers to maintain seamless aesthetics while meeting stringent global safety standards. With high repeatability and accuracy, laser weakening delivers consistency across production volumes, ensuring both safety and design integrity are preserved.

Key USPs:

• Controlled tear seams for safe airbag deployment.
• Invisible integration maintaining premium aesthetics.
• High precision and repeatability in production.
• Compliance with global safety standards.

Robotic Assembly & Cutting

Automation-driven assembly and cutting systems enhance accuracy, efficiency, and scalability in interior manufacturing. Robotic processes deliver consistent quality, reduce human error, and enable high-speed operations for complex automotive components. From precision cutting of intricate shapes to reliable integration of multiple parts, automation ensures repeatability across large volumes while maintaining OEM specifications. The use of robotics also optimizes production efficiency, shortens cycle times, and supports flexible manufacturing strategies for evolving customer requirements.

Key USPs:

• High accuracy and repeatability in operations.
• Precision cutting for complex interior components.
• Consistent quality at scale.
• Flexible, efficient production with reduced cycle times.

3D Printing

Additive manufacturing plays a critical role in accelerating product development cycles and enabling advanced engineering solutions. This technology allows rapid prototyping of interior components, facilitating quick design validation and iterative improvements. Complex geometries, lightweight lattice structures, and highly detailed surfaces can be produced with precision, supporting both functional testing and aesthetic evaluation. Beyond prototyping, 3D printing enables customization to meet diverse OEM requirements, reduces dependency on conventional tooling, and minimizes material waste. Its flexibility and scalability make it a powerful enabler of innovation in modern automotive interior systems.

Key USPs:

• Rapid prototyping with precise validation.
• Complex geometries and lightweight designs.
• Reduced tooling cost and material waste.
• Customization aligned with OEM requirements.

Tailored Premium Interior

These products utilise a combination of Artifex’s artisan saddlery team and state of the art manufacturing technologies to create beautifully tailored products that enhance the interiors of the most luxurious of vehicles. This rare blend of traditional craft and modern methods produce beautiful products that can be manufactured in small or high volumes to meet the most demanding standards. Natural materials including leather and woven textiles, or synthetic materials such as polyurethane can all be developed, tailored and developed into products of exceptional luxury and quality for our customers.

• Premium finish with leather, PU and textile options.
• Precision tailoring and accurate sewing
• Supports functional and safety integration
• Enhances aesthetics with bespoke designs