DRIVING SUSTAINABILITY

Willing to help solve the challenges of OEMs and battery manufacturers to accelerate the transition toward zero-emission mobility, we have extended our broad portfolio of solutions for EV battery systems with a first-of-its-kind injectable thermally conductive adhesive.

TECHNOMELT Supra Pro combines superior food safety features with outstanding processing benefits, including innovative high-performance hot melt adhesives for food safe packaging. This is our response to consumer as well as food industry demands.

We support industrial customers with solutions for lightweight automotive designs. This includes pretreatments for metal surfaces to combine steel and aluminum, as well as liquid soundproofing and 3D reinforcement technologies. These solutions contribute to weight reduction in the chassis and increase fuel efficiency. The solutions sold in 2022 saved around 4.6 million metric tons of CO₂ emissions for our customers.

There are three major challenges for battery manufacturers: cost-efficient processes and technologies allowing high-speed assembly of cells; ensuring reliable thermal management for operational safety and meeting flammability standards; and allowing serviceability of battery packs. With our solutions and know-how, we are an industry leading full-solutions partner, supporting our customers from design to integration.

About 40 percent of CO₂ emissions worldwide are caused by buildings. We contribute to green construction through heat- and fire-resistant adhesives for high-rise wood construction. With our products we can accelerate the use of sustainable building materials with a significantly lower CO₂ emissions during production of the building material, lower transportation emissions and carbon storage in wood materials.

Our adhesive solutions make it easy to sustainably replace emission intensive materials. Even a small quantity of our threadlocker product matches the performance of conventional steel washers for securing screws. This saves a significant amount of steel, which is an emission-intensive material. The products sold in 2022 enabled our customers to save around 0.6 million metric tons of CO₂ emissions.

We are a founding member of the initiative to promote acceleration of the transition from fossil-based to renewable carbon for all organic chemicals and materials. We aim to pioneer new solutions for adhesives, sealants and functional coatings that replace fossil carbon-based raw materials with renewable materials – to reduce the carbon footprint of our products and support our customers in reducing emissions along the value chain.

At our annual conferences we bring together partners across the global packaging and consumer goods industry to discuss the industry’s response to current sustainability needs. Sustainability Days 2022, congregated 1,500 attendees from 650 companies and 81 countries to address topics such as circular economy, reducing environmental footprint of products and packaging, and emerging regulatory challenges.

We are partnering with the FREEDM Systems Engineering Research Center at the North Carolina State University to study the impact of materials technology on power electronics applications. We have joined the FREEDM Systems Center to leverage services from North Carolina's PREES lab facilities.