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Adhesive makes cars look better

A Huntsman Advanced Materials product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Dec 15, 2005

Automotive designers and manufacturers can ensure their designs are visually flawless by using Agomet Adhesives from Huntsman Advanced Materials.

Automotive designers and manufacturers can improve the look of their designs with Agomet Adhesives from Huntsman Advanced Materials.

Offering fast reaction and bonding time, Agomet F300 and Agomet Hardener Lacquer eliminate the need for traditional screws and rivets in automotive bonding processes.

Karl-Heinz Schneider, Project Engineer at Decoma, a global supplier of exterior vehicle appearance systems, said: "By using the F300 and Hardener Lacquer 2, we have eliminated the need for screws and rivets and with the help from Huntsman we have been able to provide our customers with perfect optical exteriors".

The application of this bonding system can be seen in the Audi A4 Cabrio.

F300 and Hardener Lacquer 2 have been used to bond aluminium bolts and coated aluminium trim to the aluminium frame for the car's A-column.

F300 is a fast curing methacrylate adhesive for separate surface applications that can join dissimilar substrates at ambient temperatures.

In the automotive A-column bonding application, Hardener Lacquer 2 can be sprayed onto the aluminum parts hours, or even days, before the required bonding process.

F300 is then applied to the surface and the parts are fixed together.

Thanks to its high curing rate, parts bonded with F300 can be handled after two to four minutes of the bonding process.

The result is shock and peel-resistant bonds with high moisture resistance.

F300 can bond various materials including steel, aluminum, copper, ABS, polystyrene, rigid PVC, polycarbonate plastics, polyphenylene oxide plastics, moulded polyester parts and hard paper.

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