The automotive industry is embracing more cars powered by alternative energies, and as a result, there is a growing demand for improved convenience, network, productivity, and sustainability. As a result, the industry is encountering increasing challenges during the production and assembly stages.
Henkel forms dependable partnerships with its automotive manufacturing clients to supply long-lasting and reliable results, along with ones that allow for maximum adaptability and productivity in the factory. This is because the vehicle's body and the associated components require specialized materials.
Henkel is considered the gold standard by industry professionals when it comes to sealants, functional coatings, and adhesives for automobiles. Their products contribute to the enhancement of automobiles in various ways, including enhancing their functionality and comfort, reducing their weight, accelerating their design processes, and reducing their impact on the natural environment.
By utilizing its extensive range of products and technical experience, Henkel can create solutions that cover a vehicle’s entirety. Henkel’s experts in the automotive sector have painstakingly created and manufactured a wide array of articles that not only meet but exceed all applicable regulations.
Due to the company's involvement in this sector, Henkel can provide the automotive industry with a comprehensive range of goods and services.
- Lubricants and coolants for cutting metalwork.
- Sealants, metal pretreatment for components of internal combustion engines and electric vehicles, and Adhesives.
- Electronics for automobiles' interiors, exteriors, and engine compartments
- In the paint shop, adhesives are available. Products for the structural and adhesive construction of automobile bodies
- Solutions that are ready for assembly.
- In addition to their aftermarket services, Henkel provides many automotive repair solutions.
Application-Specific Adhesives for the Automotive Industry
Because there are a lot of different factors to consider when matching the appropriate glue to the appropriate application, they are continually working on expanding the variety of options provided. Consequently, they keep an extensive supply of various chemical formulations of adhesives that can be utilized in autos.
These formulations include silicone, rubber, epoxy, polyurethane, and PVC. In addition, acrylics that are dissolved in water and thermosets that can be replenished are only two examples of environmentally friendly chemicals currently being aggressively incorporated into industrial processes to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
Henkel’s extensive selection of adhesives is backed by various curing methods, such as heat-cure, immediate, etc., which guarantees long-lasting performance regardless of the environmental factors present. Some curing methods include heat-cure, immediate, anaerobic, moisture, ultraviolet, thermal, and dual-cure adhesion.
Henkel’s solutions are compatible with a diverse selection of materials when it comes to connecting substrates for assembly purposes. This category includes a range of steels, aluminum, composites, rubbers, glasses, and other materials. In addition, several application methods, like brushable, wipeable, and pumpable formulas, are among the many they provide.