Lightweighting of structures and combining of materials to take advantage of their best properties is becoming a part of engineering design, and adhesives will play an increasing role in those future designs and applications.
Lightweighting of structures is most often associated with automotive structures. However, lightweighting is a challenge across the transportation sector, including trucks, trailers, buses, passenger rail cars, and even heavy earth-moving equipment and cranes.
Bostik, a global adhesive specialist for industrial, construction, and consumer markets, will exhibit a range of innovative bonding and sealing solutions, including its low-pressure molding, hot melt polyurethane, silyl modified polymer (SMP), methyl methacrylate (MMA), and Born2Bond™ engineering adhesives.
When looking to save money on energy costs and align a coating/converting operation with the latest environmental impact classifications, companies should consider the benefits of in-line manufacturing of adhesives.
In times of rapidly increasing energy cost, and rolling blackouts and brownouts, energy input and waste disposal per product unit have become big concerns among manufacturers.