With the trend towards the reduction of emissions and fuel consumption, as well as your customers’ expectation for better performance from vehicles, it’s become increasingly difficult to develop EV powertrains that meet requirements.
A core part of this process is ensuring components are seamlessly integrated and bonded together without their function being affected.
With the right adhesives bonding together, your powertrains can reduce vibrations and absorb impact without transmitting it to other parts, some of which may be sensitive. Adhesives also distribute stress across the powertrain while it’s in motion, ensuring a smooth and enjoyable driving experience.
To produce next-generation EV, you need next-generation bonding solutions that improve customer experience and boost powertrain protection. That’s where we come in.
What sets tesa apart
At tesa, we’ve spent 125 years developing and manufacturing adhesives. Over these years, we’ve refined our process to guarantee near-constant innovation. Reflecting this commitment, we only offer the most current adhesive tape solutions — more than 20% of our adhesive sales come from products that are less than five years old.
A few factors contribute to our success. Let’s look at some of them:
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Rigorous optimisation
Around the world, our manufacturing centres work tirelessly to improve their processes. This means only using cutting-edge equipment and creating in-house technology for our product development and testing. Our production adheres to the highest standards for automotive industry suppliers (ISO/TS 16949).
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Strategic partnerships and customer involvement
We develop many of our products in collaboration with partners like top universities, allowing us to benefit from external expertise. We know that customers have unique needs, so we work closely with our business partners to optimise our products or adapt them to meet shifting demands.
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Core competencies
All our innovations are based on a solid understanding of polymerization, composition and how to modify existing adhesive systems. These core competencies allow us to offer a range of adhesive products for different technology platforms. Apart from increasing our overall know-how, our experience working with other industries enables us to tap into innovations developed in other areas. For example, our work supplying thermally conductive tapes for smartphones has given us new insights into building adhesive tapes for EVs.
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Talented multinational teams
Working in countries like Germany, China, South Korea, Hungary and the USA, our global development team has more than 500 employees, including chemists, engineers and physicists. Our international presence helps us tap into local research trends, while also boosting our recruitment pool to include some of the most brilliant scientists in their fields.
Working with tesa
We’ve helped forward-looking vehicle manufacturers abandon welding or screwed in favour of lightweight and cost-effective adhesive solutions. To this end, we specialise in permanent bonding and wrapping, creating powerful adhesive tapes for high-performance applications inside car powertrains (traditional and EV).
Our system solutions allow for:
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Permanent bonding of friction material to clutch discs in clutches and to synchroniser rings for manual and dual-clutch transmission
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Permanent mounting of sensor plates for gear control in semi-automatic vehicles
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Mounting of brake shims for disc brakes
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Mounting of magnets to rotors for electric motors
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Permanent mounting of battery cells, insulation sheets and cables
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Full wrapping of battery cells and blocks
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Tamperproof encoding of battery blocks by high-precision laser marking
And that’s not all: we understand that EV powertrains need adhesives that can serve multiple functions and that fit your unique design. That’s why we work closely with you to co-create project-specific adhesive products. We’ll support you throughout the entire production process, from concept to delivery.
Now that we’ve unpacked our offerings, let’s explore some of our work in the automotive industry:
Building custom adhesive solutions for battery mounting and insulation
On a recent project for a renowned EV battery manufacturer, we were able to leverage our international team to develop custom solutions to permanently bond battery cells while insulating electrical components.
Reflecting our fast pace of innovation, changes occurred daily and were easily able to adapt our design to short-notice client requests.
The tesa® ACXplus for automotive attachment parts
The tesa® ACXplus is a secure constructive bond that diminishes the static and dynamic stresses placed on mounted parts. Apart from dampening vibrations, the unique tapes also compensate for thermal expansion.
For EV manufacturers, the tesa® ACXplus includes the following benefits:
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High adaptability allows perfect attachment to the car body’s curves and corners.
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Its deep colouring makes it invisible when used between the mounted part and the car body
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Our process and tech can tailor this solution for your specific EV attachment needs
Adhering instead of plugging
In many car designs, up to 220 holes need to be covered during the automobile manufacturing process. Instead of using plastic, rubber or metal — a process that requires a great deal of work because the holes have different sizes and shapes — tesa’s clients are using our adhesive tape to close more than 10 billion holes a year.
Our tapes lead to lighter cars and they’re more cost-effective. While our product is already a significantly faster solution than plugging, we’ve gone a step further and have built a robot that covers holes more quickly than your production employees can.
Steer the future of e-mobility with tesa
Companies creating next-generation EVs need global partners who understand their challenges.
So why not take advantage of our expertise and co-create your next EV with us?
We offer a full range of adhesive solutions for use in electrical insulation, mounting, thermal management and fire protection.
To dive further into EV innovation, download our complete guide : Driving Electric Vehicle Innovation: How To Unlock The Next Chapter With Co-Creation by clicking the button below.
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