From mobile devices to wearables and smart household appliances, electronics are an integral part of our everyday lives. Consumers want reliable, robust and responsive products with exceptional performance and value. To meet these needs, organisations throughout the consumer electronics ecosystem turn to innovative advanced materials.
Digital connectivity is an everyday reality. Our electronic devices connect us to one another, our work and our homes. Innovation is needed to ensure our devices can be small and sophisticated while delivering reliable, high-speed performance.
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Henkel supports consumer electronics across the electronics value chain through core technology platforms:
- Semiconductor Packaging materials for wirebond and advanced semiconductor package assembly and reliability.
- Component Assembly Materials for sensors, modules, connectors, and electronic component integration.
- Thermal Management Materials to manage heat and support device performance.
- Board-Level Encapsulants & Underfills to protect circuit boards and improve interconnect reliability.
- Device Assembly Materials for structural bonding, protection, sealing, and enclosure assembly.
- Printed Electronics Materials that enable next-generation connectivity and functional printed applications.
These solutions help manufacturers address key challenges such as reliability, miniaturization, connectivity, thermal performance, protection, and advanced device design across a wide range of consumer electronics applications.
Reliability in consumer electronics is rarely the result of a single material. Instead, it depends on multiple material technologies working together. Reliability is designed into the device long before the product reaches the user. Structural adhesives help maintain device integrity, board-level encapsulants and underfills protect sensitive interconnections, and thermal management materials help dissipate heat. Together, these solutions help devices withstand drops, vibration, thermal cycling, moisture exposure, and long-term use.
As consumer devices become thinner, lighter, and more highly integrated, adhesives help engineers optimize internal space, enable new form factors, and support increasingly complex device architectures.
Advanced adhesive technologies make it possible to bond dissimilar materials, create ultra-thin bond lines, enhance structural integrity, and protect devices against moisture and environmental stress. They also give designers greater freedom to optimize space, weight, and device architecture while supporting innovations such as edge-to-edge displays, foldable designs, wearables, wireless earbuds, and other compact smart devices.
Henkel supports consumer electronics innovation through a combination of advanced material expertise, application engineering, and co-innovation with customers.
Beyond materials, Henkel works closely with customers to address design, manufacturing, reliability, and performance challenges through modelling and simulation, reliability validation, regulatory support, and technical problem solving.
Through its network of innovation centers and laboratories, Henkel works alongside customers to evaluate concepts, validate solutions, and address emerging application challenges.
By combining material science, engineering know-how, and insights from across the electronics value chain, Henkel helps customers transform ideas into reliable, scalable products with greater confidence.
AI-powered consumer devices place increasing demands on computing capability, sensing, connectivity, power efficiency, and system reliability.
As AI expands across smartphones, AI PCs, extended reality devices, wearables, and robotics, manufacturers face growing challenges in thermal management, system reliability, protection, and integration complexity.
Advanced materials help address these challenges by protecting electronic assemblies, improving package- and board-level reliability, enabling efficient thermal management, and supporting increasingly compact and integrated device architectures.
As intelligence moves closer to the user, electronic materials play a critical role in transforming AI capabilities into reliable, durable, and scalable products.
Get in touch with our experts and start exploring advanced materials solutions today.