Battery Application Center, North America

Ensuring the right material for your battery components is just one part of the story. What comes next can make or break the performance and integrity of the entire battery pack – and that’s the material application.

But seamless and efficient application during full-scale manufacturing starts long before the material hits the production facility.

At Henkel, we’re thinking about the success of your production as early as the component design and material selection stage. Using advanced models, we can predict the behaviour of materials in the assembly process, such as flow and force – helping to optimise dispense patterns and minimise risks such as excess squeeze out.

Through minimising risk early, we can reduce your application testing time and get your material into production quickly and efficiently – decreasing the potential for costly downtime and quality problems.

Our North American Battery Application Center comes equipped with a six-axis, high-capacity robot that replicates an industrial-scale environment – enabling our application engineering team to confirm how your material will behave in a real-world manufacturing setting.

Co-located with other critical functions, including product development, research, and development and testing, we can quickly iterate changes to ensure optimal application parameters, including:

• Material distribution
• Application speed
• Dispense volume
• Temperature
• Path accuracy
• Thickness

Our application-testing capabilities are available across a broad range of solutions and chemistry types, including 1k and 2k thermal interface materials, sealants, structural adhesives, and debonding-on-demand adhesives. The flexibility to accommodate different chemistry and application types is matched by our ability to work on different sized components, from battery cells to full-size battery modules. Additionally, the Center can simulate varied production needs, from low-volume production using cartridge dispense systems to high-volume series production using drums.

Enabling the long-term success of the EV market starts with a collaborative, agile approach from the onset of design. At Henkel, we’ve built this approach directly into the fabric of our operations. Our regionally positioned Battery Engineering Centers in Europe and North America are accelerating development, application, and testing time – re-shaping traditional notions of vehicle development – and delivering fast, agile, and efficient product development, while enabling reduced costs and an increased competitive advantage.