Bonding with the automotive industry

It may come as a surprise that the automotive industry has been using adhesives for over 30 years. Still, adhesives have come a long way and the real breakthrough for adhesive bonding came with the possibility of actually gluing windows to the car body. Nowadays, adhesives can make up to 5 kilograms of total vehicle weight – especially in newer models that are designed with lightweight structures and components in mind from the ground up. And so it comes as no surprise that, today, advanced adhesive bonding technology strikes the perfect balance between lightweight engineering, outstanding safety and improved cost efficiency in a growing number of areas in automotive manufacturing and assembly.

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