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Product category: Adhesives, threadlockers and other consumables
News Release from: Lord Corporation
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial Team on 07 May 2007

25th birthday celebrated for adhesives

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More than 50 million vehicles have been built using structural metal bonding enabled by Lord Corporation's adhesive technology.

Lord Corporation has announced a 25th anniversary milestone for the use of its metal bonding adhesives for vehicle assembly By the company's estimate, more than 50 million vehicles have been built using structural metal bonding enabled by Lord Corporation's adhesive technology

According to Scott Miller, Lord Global Marketing Manager, the first commercial vehicle application using Lord Corporation's metal bonding technology was in 1982 for heavy-duty truck doors, followed in 1987 by doors on a Ford 9000 series truck.

Metal bonding eliminated all hem welds and resolved dimensional stability issues during shipment of the doors to the assembly plant.

Ford later presented Lord with an innovative technology award for this application.

Since that time, millions of vehicles have incorporated structural bonds using Lord Corporation's adhesives.

Outside the automotive industry, metal bonding is used to assemble bus, truck and trailer sidewalls, roofs, doors, wind fairings and many other components.

In automobiles, applications include doors, hoods, decklids, fenders, roofs, end gates, tail gates, A-Pillars, B-Pillars, C-Pillars, gas cap covers, identification tags on transmissions and re-inforcement patches for safety restraints.

Today, Lord provides metal bonding solutions to a variety of OEMs and tier suppliers in a wide range of industries.

Additionally, Lord has developed a distribution system to supply the needs of the automotive repair industry.

Lord adhesives are now applied on the assembly line for in-plant and port repair, as well as for dealer warranty and collision repair.

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