Out here, there's no time for downtime. Henkel materials and our approach to sustainable devolpment help build equipment that lasts longer, has lower emissions, and squeezes every drop of perfomance from every resource. Reliability is responsibility.
We are driving sustainable impact by optimizing our own footprint and using sustainable raw materials, while also driving continuous improvement in our production and logistics activities.
We provide innovative solutions that enable our customers to boost their contribution to sustainability for the climate, circularity, safety and nature.
Structural bonding is a less energy-consuming process than welding. Bonding enables uniform stress distribution that can lead to longer service life and fewer replacements.
Bonding allows for thinner materials, which again leads to improved fuel efficiency and reduced transportation costs.
By reducing weight, increasing durability, lowering energy use, and reducing emissions, structural bonding directly contributes to more sustainable heavy equipment production.
To reach the heavy equipment sector’s net-zero goals, we’re on a mission that entails rethinking design and processes. See how we partnered with a manufacturer to replace welds with structural adhesives to redesign and construct a lighter, sustainable multipurpose vehicle cabin.
converted in 2023
We converted further 14 sites to carbon-netural production.
CO2 emissions
from our production per ton of product compared to 2010.
of our electricity
is sourced from renewable sources.
We contribute to climate by:
- Enabling lightweighting, replacing welded joints with bonding to reduce material consumption and CO2 emissions.
- Providing thermal management solutions for heavy equipment electrification that reduces greenhouse gas emissions.
- Reducing energy use with room temperature curing gasket sealants and UV curing materials.
- Decreasing energy consumption with low temperature cleaners and metal conversion coatings with reduced process steps.
We contribute to circularity by:
- Offering Adhesion Promoter/No-Rinse dosing equipment for precise application control that reduces waste, wastewater and sludge formation.
- Promoting reuse, repair and recycle solutions and actively exploring debonding solutions that enable rework ability.
We are committed to:
- Proactively addressing substances under discussion by promoting and developing alternatives, and optimizing product safety.
- Our solutions include Solvent-free, Tin-free adhesive sealant, CMR-free structural bonders and instant component bonder, Label-free threadlocking and threadsealing, and Non-Chrome Metal Cleaner Coaters and Conversion Coatings.
We enable sustainable impact for nature by:
- Reducing water consumption and recycling wastewater throughout our customers‘ metal pretreatment processes.
- Providing phosphate-free solutions.
- Our solutions include low temperature thin film metal cleaner coater, thin film metal cleaner coater, five-step thin film conversion coater, thin film conversion coater for E-coat and steel and multi-metal conversion coating.
Manufacturers of agricultural and construction equipment strive to manage costs, boost efficiency and innovate sustainably. Henkel improves manufacturing with structural adhesive bonding to replace welding, strengthening assemblies while reducing costs and CO₂. Next-generation metal pretreatments reduce water use and wastewater.
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