Heavy & Medium Duty Trucks
Reduce Weight with Our Heavy & Medium Duty Truck Solutions
A class 5-8 truck with reduced weight can require less power to move; this can help drivers increase the miles per gallon their truck yields, which can contribute to benefits such as improved freight efficiency and fuel savings and reduced emissions.
To help manufacture a truck with reduced weight:
- Our PLIOGRIP™ structural adhesives (two-part polyurethanes, methyl methacrylates and low modulus) for lightweight materials can bond to composites such as low-density sheet molding compounds, DCPDs, TPOs and thermoplastics used in hood and cab structures. This capability can help improve aesthetics on class A surfaces while aiding in a lightweight end-use product.
- Our Elastosol™ rubber-based sealants for heavy and medium duty trucks are designed for lightweight body-in-white materials such as aluminum; using these materials can contribute to a lightweight truck design.
Use More Sustainable Materials with Our Heavy & Medium Duty Truck Solutions
Our PLIOGRIP™ low modulus adhesive technology for trucks provides good bond performance to more sustainable materials, such as low surface energy substrates (TPO glass-filled polypropylene, xenoy and polycarbonate). This capability helps you incorporate those materials into your applications.
Reduce Fasteners with Heavy & Medium Truck Solutions
Fasteners can cause fatigue over time due to losing their clamping force with vibrations. This can contribute to bond failure and moisture penetration in your truck’s surface finish and result in composites cracking. These issues can impact your truck parts’ performance levels in addition to potentially increasing maintenance and waste.
Our heavy and medium duty truck solutions can help you reduce fastener usage, offering capabilities such as:
- Minimal movement on low surface energy and thermoplastic substrates to help eliminate fatigue issues compared to fasteners
- OEM-approved, durable strength during conditions such as high heat, cold temperatures and humidity to maintain bond properties
- Excellent elongation to resist cracking and moisture penetration
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Experience Additional Advantages with Heavy & Medium Truck Solutions
In addition to helping you accomplish your goals, our Bostik experts have formulated our sealant an adhesive technology for trucks to provide additional advantages, such as:
- Minimal shrinkage to help reduce bond line read through and heat buildup
- High heat resistance to help extend application durability and longevity
We also offer a dual SMP gun with high green strength for sealant applications to increase cure speeds and improve production line efficiencies. Compared to a one-component system, our dual SMP gun yields seven times faster strength build based on our internal testing. It also is solid after curing for one hour, reducing cycle times.
The Benefits of Choosing Bostik
By choosing Bostik, the adhesive solutions segment of Arkema, you receive:
- Access to a strong distribution network: Our truck adhesives and sealants are available for purchase through quality distributors to help increase access and availability ease. View our distributor list here.
- Access to a broad portfolio: Our heavy duty truck and medium duty truck adhesive and sealants are designed for various truck applications, such as cab structures and body-in-white. This broad portfolio can streamline manufacturing complexities and supplier logistics, as it can get you to a solution quickly.
- Extensive analytical support: Our analytical team helps customers evaluate their adhesives and processes, such as conducting 3rd party substrate testing on their behalf, aging studies as well as surface analysis, rheology and microscopy.
- Access to equipment for online and offline trial runs: We offer meter mix units, dispensing equipment and more; this can help facilitate evaluations on our truck customers’ behalf.
- On-site technical support: We also provide heavy and medium duty truck technical support and can visit your facilities to assist with any troubleshooting needs and help avoid issues in the future.
- Dual SMP gun systems: When our SMP solutions are used with our dual SMP guns, you can reduce the amount of time needed to build handling strength while maintaining the product’s open time.
- On-going development: Additionally, we are active in industry conferences, which helps us stay apprised of key trends impacting our truck customers; we use this knowledge to develop products that can address the trends and help achieve goals.
Additionally, we have been recognized with Supplier of the Year awards for our analytical and technical support.
In a world of increasing demands, let’s have a discovery call to find out how Bostik can help you!
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