Today's motor vehicle headlamps are generally equipped with halogen lamps and these lamps are either made of hard glass or quartz glass. The modern headlamp systems also use a discharge lamp which is filled with Xenon gas.

For automobile halogen lamps PLANSEE USA supplies:

• Mo/MY-sleeves (prematerial: ribbon) for attaching  the spiral tungsten filament to the lead-in pins
• ML-wire/pins or ML/Ni-pins for power supply and conducting current
• MY-ESS ribbon for conducting current in quartz glass lamps
• Ribbons/wires made of Mo/Pt or Ta used as a welding aid

For automobile high-intensity discharge lamps PLANSEE supplies:

Thoriated W-electrodes ML-wire/pins or ML/Ni-pins for power supply MY-ESS ribbon for conducting current Ribbons/wires made of Mo/Pf or Ta used as a welding aid