24 Apr 2019
With tesa® HiP even different and thin plastics can be bonded without pretreatment, yet with a high initial performance. No matter whether you want to bond PP to ABS or PA to PC – tesa® HiP offers fascinating design possibilities and contributes to making plastics even more attractive for the automotive industry.
Support the material trend towards plastic and think outside the box.
Goodbye-Limits
Have you ever dreamed of combining different plastics easily? Now you can, because with our new adhesive tape solution we are revolutionizing the automotive world: it is the first and only tape that bonds even different plastics with different surface energy or different stiffness simply, quickly, and securely.
No matter whether you want to bond PP to ABS or PA to PC – tesa ® HiP offers fascinating design possibilities and contributes to making plastics even more attractive for the automotive industry.
Think Outside The Box
New materials, new parts, new shapes. The demands on design and adaptations are now enormously high and are becoming a real challenge. In order to make the vehicle lighter, ever thinner materials are being processed that require new bonding processes.
An Easy and Reliable Way of Bonding Plastics
With tesa ® HiP it is now not only possible to combine different types of plastics, but also to create adhesive joints in all directions. Our new tape is designed to deliver reliable and long-lasting adhesion.
Bring process flows to an unseen efficiency with tesa® HiP
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Bonding Power That Drives You Forward
Get the full power in just a few seconds. Our new tape creates powerful bonds even between plastics that are commonly used in the automotive industry and have a low surface energy (LSE).
tesa ® HiP adheres immediately and is able to achieve 80% of its full bonding performance after 5 seconds if 10 N/cm2 pressure is applied.
Faster. Cleaner. tesa ® HiP.
Bonding of parts in the car interior can be very challenging. Rivets, welds, screws, or liquid glue may not be suitable for all materials and cause various negative effects. Often the process takes too long, may be unclean, or entails higher scrap rates.
These restrictions are now a thing of the past. Our new tesa ® HiP foam tape joins different materials fast, permanently, cleanly, and without damage.
Many plastics have a poor tendency to bond to other materials because of their surface energy. Therefore, in many cases an additional pretreatment has been necessary until now.
With tesa ® HiP there is no need for primer, corona, plasma, or flame treatment. Generally, tesa recommends a cleaned surface free from oils, dust, or similar for a reliable bonding performance.
Our latest product development is impressive thanks to its very simple handling in the manufacturing process. Simply attach the tape to the material and you are done. No heat and no additional steps are required. This saves valuable time, costs, and effort.
Find your cost saving potentials in lean production lines.
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One for all
Plastic is an important material for the future of the automotive industry. The reasons are clear: it is light, resistant, durable, and visually appealing. Each 10% reduction in vehicle weight results in a 5% to 7% reduction in fuel consumption. Consequently, more and more plastics are being used. Between 2007 and 2014, automotive plastic usage (PP) increased by 20%.
In the past, different plastics required different bonding solutions. However, tesa ® HiP is suitable for all types of plastic, e.g. PP, ABS, or PC.
Time to invest in the future
Together we develop new processes to optimize your production and integration automation with our innovative tape solution.
Processing with tesa ® HiP is so simple that no expensive investments in machinery are needed. Benefit from the cost advantage through low investments and increased flexibility in the production process.
Less is more
Our new tape leads to leaner processes resulting in improved efficiency, effectiveness, and profitability in automotive manufacturing.
