Henkel’s Expanded Gasketing Technology Enhances Performance and Reliability
15 August 2012 - 1:09PM
Business Wire
Henkel has expanded its gasketing technology portfolio with
new materials and processes designed to replace rubber gaskets in
demanding automotive applications. With its latest development –
the Loctite® 5883™ polyacrylate gaskets combined with
the new XIP gasketing process. Henkel provides its customers with a
unique sealing solution – a solution that allows them to dispense
high-performance compression gaskets within seconds, directly onto
automotive parts. This new process eliminates the need for solid
rubber press-in-place (PIP) gaskets and enables automotive OEMs and
tiered suppliers to enhance the performance and reliability of
their products while achieving productivity goals and reducing
overall costs.
Henkel's expanded gasketing technology
enhances performance and reliability (Photo: Business Wire)
The automotive industry is constantly shifting with evolving
performance and higher efficiency standards, driven by emerging
end-user requirements and stricter environmental regulations. This
pattern translates into new product design challenges, which the
automotive designers have to seek solutions for.
The use of light weight materials such as plastic materials has
been the common response from the industry to achieve fuel
efficiency and sustainability goals. Engines, Heating, Ventilation
and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) modules and electronics components
integrate an increasing number of plastic parts such as covers or
header tanks, which have to be sealed to the core component unit.
The most commonly used plastic-to-substrate sealing method is the
press-in-place (PIP) process, whereby the solid rubber gasket or
o-ring is manually applied onto the parts. With this process comes
a risk of displacement of the gasket during compression, leading to
rework or leakages.
Milestone in the automotive industry
With the introduction of the XIP gasket technology, Henkel
allows the fast, precise and series production-ready dispensing of
a liquid gasket directly onto automotive parts, replacing the PIP
method. The dispensed liquid material is cured by ultraviolet light
within seconds. The output is a perfectly uniform solid compression
gasket, with a constant height and perfect start and stop points.
These features are enabled by the volumetric dispensing system
offered by the XIP equipment. This reduces the risk of rework and
leakages, while improving the productivity and reducing the overall
cost by automating the gasketing process and eliminating the
inventory as well as the complexity of the PIP solid gaskets.
The new Loctite® 5883™ coupled with the new high-precision XIPG
gasketing process marks a milestone in chemical and process
development in the automotive industry, delivering benefits for
fast and efficient manufacturing, fuel efficiency and
sustainability.
To learn more about Loctite New Performance Gasketing, please
visit the Henkel website at: www.henkel.asia/autogasket.
Photo material is available at
http://www.henkel.com/press.
Henkel operates worldwide with leading brands and technologies
in three business areas: Laundry & Home Care,
Cosmetics/Toiletries and Adhesive Technologies. Founded in 1876,
Henkel holds globally leading market positions both in the consumer
and industrial businesses with well-known brands such as Persil,
Schwarzkopf and Loctite. Henkel employs about 47,000 people and
reported sales of 15,605 million euros and adjusted operating
profit of 2,029 million euros in fiscal 2011. Henkel’s preferred
shares are listed in the German stock index DAX and the company
ranks among the Fortune Global 500.
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