Saving resources and promoting circularity

Automotive example: The battery is by far the biggest cost factor in an electric car. The technology is developing rapidly, and manufacturing processes are prone to high scrap rates. This can lead to high, unwanted extra costs. And wastes resources. In addition, a new EU regulation sets sustainability targets for the recyclability of batteries from mid-2023. tesa® Bond & Detach meets all these challenges at the same time: Reversible bonding with the innovative debonding-on-demand product helps to reduce waste during production to a minimum because errors can be corrected. What's more, the application makes a significant contribution to improving the recyclability of complex assemblies, such as electric car batteries, by enabling the previously firmly bonded individual components to be disassembled and recycled.

tesa® Bond & Detach is like a reliable partner who can also let go. "Selling adhesive tape that doesn't stick forever may sound like a difficult task," says Jan Ole Pöhls, International Product Manager Automotive. "But in fact, the benefits of our innovative bond-on-demand tapes speak for themselves and they are becoming more and more popular". The basic idea of bonding components with uncompromising quality standards, but at the same time making every adhesive bond revisable, kills several birds with one stone for manufacturers, because saving resources in production and ensuring the repairability of products and product components are major plus points: With solutions such as tesa® Bond & Detach, the industry can both reduce costs and take a big step forward in terms of sustainability.