Automotive

Automotive Adhesives that Fit the Needs of Today

In the transportation industry, lightweight design is crucial to maintaining high usability, low costs and aesthetics that meet consumer expectations. That means conventional bonding processes are reaching their limits. Manufacturers are beginning to bond automotive materials without welding, punching, folding or mechanical fasteners and they have lessened the complexity of their assembly processes, leading to faster processing and lower production costs. Engineers find that automotive adhesives and auto sealants can help them avoid stress concentrations while simultaneously eliminating protruding fasteners in order to deliver the smooth look more designers and consumers want.

Using automotive adhesives and sealants and including automotive waterproof sealants and automotive structural adhesives allows automakers to incorporate new materials that offer cost savings and performance improvements. But most importantly, the best automotive adhesive bonds are many times more resistant to fatigue, contaminants and corrosion than conventional fasteners.

The H.B. Fuller Difference

At H.B. Fuller, we manufacture and market a broad range of adhesive technologies for today’s automotive adhesives needs, such as water-based, hot melt, reactive hot melt and solvent-based adhesives. Our low emission automotive adhesives and sealants are formulated to enable lightweight designs that increase energy efficiency, safety and sustainability.

We are more than just a global transportation adhesives manufacturer — we are a company with a reputation you can trust. Leading manufacturers continue to choose us time after time because we make and market adhesives for the most challenging automotive bonding adhesive applications. We continually drive innovation with our products and solutions so we can offer our customers increased vehicle and component durability, faster processing, and the design freedom they need to compete in today’s marketplace. And we deliver those solutions through comprehensive technical expertise — quickly, locally and personally.

Low Emission Automotive Adhesives and Sealants

We offer a portfolio of products that cover a wide range of applications and application requirements.
Our transportation adhesive applications include:

• Powertrain bonding, sealing and threadlocking
• Interior lamination and assembly
• Exterior lighting and trim
• Structural and multi-material bonding
• Under-the-hood electronics
• Wood panel applications for recreational vehicles

We're always working to develop solutions specifically designed to align with ever-changing market demands, such as the improvement of bonding to composites, lighter metal alloys, plastic and natural fiber blends, and flexible foil to hard substrate adhesion applications for interior trim.