Adhesive solution of the future: tesa wins MMK Award of Excellence 2025 with "Debonding on Demand" technology
 


  • Award-winning: tesa wins MMK Award of Excellence in the "Sustainable Engineering" category for its "Debonding on Demand" technology
  • Circular economy: "Debonding on Demand" solutions enable controlled debonding for improved recycling and reuse
  • Pioneer: market-leading technology for many industries, from consumer electronics to automotive

 

Norderstedt - tesa, an international manufacturer of innovative adhesive tapes and self-adhesive product solutions, has been honored with the MMK Award of Excellence 2025 in the "Sustainable Engineering" category for its "Debonding on Demand" technology. This technology sets new standards in production and recycling management, as it enables permanent adhesive bonds to be released without leaving any residue. In this way, tesa makes an important contribution to conserving resources and offers its customers and partners a significant technological advantage.

A revolution in bonding solutions
“Debonding on demand” solutions make it possible to release adhesive bonds by means of targeted external influences such as heat or electrical impulses without significant time expenditure or material damage. This makes recycling much easier, especially in the electronics and automotive industries, where sustainable disassembly is becoming increasingly important. tesa thus offers an answer to the ‘right to repair’ and creates new opportunities for more sustainable production and repair processes.

Award for „Sustainable Engineering“
"Receiving the MMK Award of Excellence confirms our efforts to offer innovations with real added value for our customers and to contribute to the circular economy," says Dr. Norman Goldberg, CEO of tesa. "Our high-performance 'Debonding on Demand' technology makes assembly and disassembly processes more efficient and resource-saving. This also gives our customers and partners a decisive competitive advantage and enables us to meet the growing demand for more sustainable adhesive solutions."

MMK Award highlights innovative and sustainable engineering achievements
The MMK Award of Excellence was presented on March 11 and 12 as part of the Munich Management Colloquium. In the "Sustainable Engineering" category, attention is paid to sustainability, feasibility, reproducibility, scalability and life cycle analysis. tesa came out on top with its "Debonding on Demand" technology against Ceratizit Deutschland GmbH and Ventilatorenfabrik Oelde GmbH.

Further information on "Debonding on Demand" can be found at www.tesa.com.

About tesa SE

As a multinational company, tesa develops innovative adhesive tapes and self-adhesive product solutions for various industries, commercial customers, and end consumers. There are already more than 7,000 tesa adhesive solutions that help improve the work, products or lives of our customers. Today, the focus is on sustainability and energy-saving processes. tesa invests in the development of environmentally friendly products and solvent-free manufacture processes as well as in the use of renewable energy sources at its locations.

tesa is active in 100 countries and operates plants in Germany, Italy, China, the USA, and in Vietnam. Around three quarters of the tesa Group’s sales (2023: EUR 1.7 billion euro) are generated by applications for industries. Together with its international clients, tesa develops innovations that are customized at product and process level. Already more than 130 tesa tapes may be installed in an electric car and over 70 in a smartphone. In the printing and construction industries, too, tesa is constantly penetrating new segments and countries with its special adhesive tapes. The company generates almost one quarter of its sales with products for end consumers and professional craftsmen. 300 applications, such as the legendary tesafilm®, make life easier or, when it comes to insect protection, even make it a bit more pleasant. tesa counts among the world’s leading manufacturers of adhesive solutions. Since 2001, tesa SE is an independent 100% affiliate of Beiersdorf AG (i.e., NIVEA, Eucerin, la prairie) with approx. 5,200 employees today.

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