Elastic bonding transforms rail and bus assembly, offering lightweight design, cost savings, and alternatives to traditional methods.
Regulators, operators, manufacturers, and suppliers must now respond to the needs of people who want to see the mass transportation they use demonstrate a real commitment to innovation, sustainability, and customer centricity. With our history and experience in transit, vehicle experts can help you find ways to optimize the manufacturing processes and drive down costs, reduce weight, increase durability, and improve reliability for trains and buses.
times more efficient
On average, trains are at least 12 times more energy efficient per passenger than air travel.1
trains market
In 2023, this market should reach $129.9B.2
buses market
This market is projected to reach $20.84B in 2023.3
Elastic bonding has been used for decades in the rail industry to join dissimilar structural materials, including panels, walls, roofs, and floors. Our high-strength structural adhesives replace welds, rivets, and mechanical fasteners to enable assembly of lightweight designs and optimize acoustic performance, which also contributes to overall weight reduction.
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Designed to prevent leakage, our robust sealants work effectively on metals, plastics and composites, and can be applied during any phase of vehicle or component assembly.
Henkel's wide range of high strength enable the assembly of non-metallic substrates and open new perspectives of lightweight designs.
Henkel's adhesives bond train windows, simplifying assembly, enhancing safety, and offering primerless adhesion with controlled curing.
Henkel's TEROSON® brand NVH solutions help enhance material properties and minimize audible noises. We provide advanced NVH technologies as well as design and engineering support to our customers.
Rail manufacturers need to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and increase innovation. With our history and experience in the rail industry, Henkel helps rail customers optimize their manufacturing processes, improve efficiency, and reduce overall costs.
LOCTITE® thread sealants prevent gas and liquid leakage, suitable for low- and high-pressure applications, forming instant, fully cured seals.
Elastic bonding transforms bus assembly, offering lightweight design, cost savings, and alternatives to traditional methods.
LOCTITE® gasketing ensures a perfect seal, reducing flange face corrosion, forming a low-pressure seal on assembly, and fully curing in 24 hours.
Seam sealants, preventing leaks on metals, plastics, composites, work at any transit vehicle assembly phase. Paintable and resistant options available.
Henkel's high-strength elastomers simplify bus windshield assembly, enhancing safety, torsional stiffness, and waterproofing.
Henkel’s global portfolio of solutions optimizes manufacturing processes for school and transit buses, whether for sidewalls, roofs, hoods, frames, chassis, or doors. Parts big and small stay in place with Henkel’s adhesive solutions.
Henkel's high-strength elastomers simplify windshield assembly on heavy equipment, enhancing safety for mass transit vehicles.
Henkel, a 20+ year NVH partner with top rail manufacturers, enhances material properties and reduces noise with TEROSON® and LOCTITE® solutions.
LOCTITE® thread sealants prevent gas and liquid leakage, suitable for low- and high-pressure applications, forming instant, fully cured seals.
Henkel excels in metal pretreatment, setting standards for cleaning, corrosion protection, paint adhesion, and environmental safety in mass transit with BONDERITE® adhesive.
Seam sealants, preventing leaks on metals, plastics, composites, work at any transit vehicle assembly phase. Paintable and resistant options available.
LOCTITE® gasketing ensures a perfect seal, reducing flange face corrosion, forming a low-pressure seal on assembly, and fully curing in 24 hours.
Hotmelt adhesives offer simplified processing, streamlined manufacturing, and end-product protection, ideal for diverse train applications like side walls, lamination, and seating.
Effective cleaning, corrosion protection, and paint adhesion. Pick multi-substrate pretreatments and conversion coatings.
Henkel speeds 3D printing with a range of adhesives, resins, and related services and equipment for industrial applications.
Henkel's thermal potting shields electronics from vibration, thermal shock, humidity, dust, and corrosion, ensuring proper heat dissipation.
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