Transportation Interior Component Adhesives & Sealants
How Our Solutions Help You Meet Consumer Preferences
When in buses, train cars, class 5-8 trucks, specialty vehicles or RVs, consumers prefer comfortable, safe experiences. Our transportation interior sealants and adhesives offer:
- Reduced odor likelihood: Our silyl modified polymer (SMP) and polyurethane (PU) sealants are formulated to be able to reduce odor with neutral and odorless curing capabilities.
- Decrease hazardous chemical off-gassing, usage and exposure: Our SMP sealants are formulated to be free of solvents and isocyanates. Additionally, our hot melt and water-based adhesives used in decorative trim are formulated to yield no off-gassing fumes and contain no volatile organic compounds.
- Flame retardancy: Our flame retardant sealant is qualified to the NFPA 130 standard and is designed for use in mass transit interior applications where required to help improve safety.
- Ability to expand design options: Because our transportation interior sealants and adhesives can bond to a variety of substrates, including metals, composites, woods and plastics, you can incorporate aesthetically pleasing designs into your interiors to appeal to consumer style preferences.
Find out how our transportation interior sealants and adhesives can help you meet consumer preferences!
How Our Solutions Help You Increase Production Efficiencies
Our transportation sealants and adhesives for mass transit, class 5-8 truck, specialty vehicle or RV interiors can also streamline your manufacturing operations with:
- Primerless capabilities: Our SMP and PU sealants can be applied to many substrates, including metals, rubber and wood, without a primer; this helps reduce work-in-process, potential for rework and associated downtime.
- Easy application: Our SMP and PU sealants are available in bulk or point of use packaging to accommodate different use cases and are formulated for easy dispensing and tooling. Additionally, our water-based adhesives for decorative trim and panels can be spray-applied easily across large or small parts; likewise, our solvent-based interior adhesives can be spray, brush or roll-applied.
- Fast open and fixture times: Our hot melt adhesives offer a range of open times to help keep production lines moving quickly. Additionally, when using our dual SMP gun, you can achieve fixturing strength in 1 hour compared to 8-12 hours, based on our internal testing; this helps you increase output volume.
- SKU reduction opportunities: Several of our solutions, including hot melt, solvent-based and water-based adhesives as well as Born2Bond™ Instants and SMPs are compatible with multiple substrates including metals, plastics and wood; this means you can use one adhesive for various operations, minimizing SKUs and complexities.
- Precise application: Our adhesives and sealants offer nozzle dispensing that can be cut to your specific bead size needs; this helps reduce waste potential and cleanup.
How Our Solutions Help You Reduce Weight
Designing a lightweight bus, train car, class 5-8 truck, specialty vehicle or RV can help you increase engine power and fuel efficiency. Our transportation adhesives and sealants can help in the following ways:
- Compatibility with lightweight composites: Our PLIOGRIP (two-part polyurethane) structural adhesives, hot melt adhesives, SMP and PU sealants offer compatibility with lightweight composites, which allows you to incorporate them into your interior designs.
- Low density formulations: Certain products are formulated with low density, which can help reduce overall transportation weight. Contact your Bostik expert for availability and additional information.
- Ability to reduce mechanical fastener usage: Our solvent-based adhesives can be used with a curative to increase strength and heat resistance, allowing you to use adhesives in many applications within the vehicle and reduce reliance on mechanical fasteners, which contribute to overall vehicle weight.
- Adhesion to low surface energy plastics: Our solutions also can bond to substrates such as polypropylene, which are lighter weight compared to other options; their ability to bond to these substrates can help you utilize it across interior applications.
Ready for our mass transit, specialty vehicle and RV adhesives and sealants to help your applications?
Featured Transportation Interior Products
Key products within our transportation interiors portfolio include:
- 70-03A: This solvent, isocyanate and PVC-free silyl modified polymer offers primerless adhesion with good UV resistance and aging properties. It also is neutral, odorless and fast curing.
- Thermogrip® 9438: Designed for transportation interiors, this hot melt polyolefin product offers high heat resistance and strong bonds across many substrates. It also has a long working time and pot life to accommodate production needs.
- Thermogrip® 4289: This hot melt polyamide offers strong adhesion to non-woven substrates, low viscosity for ease of use and is suitable for applications exposed to high temperatures.
The Benefits of Choosing Bostik
In addition to our quality transportation interior adhesives and sealants, we provide:
- Access to a strong distribution network: Our transportation adhesives and sealants are available for purchase through quality distributors to help increase access and availability ease. View our distributor list here.
- Broad portfolio: We offer adhesives and sealants across transportation markets and applications.
- 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.
- Extensive technical support: Our experts work with customers directly to help with testing, production optimization and more. We also have internal development labs and can trial products on our in-house equipment to minimize disruption to customer facilities.
- Onsite support: Our experts also routinely visit customers to assess needs and provide recommendations on how to optimize production.
- On-going development: Additionally, we are active in industry conferences, which helps us stay apprised of key trends impacting our customers; we use this knowledge to develop products that can address the trends and help achieve goals.
In a world of evolving needs, let’s have a discovery call to understand how we can help your interior body components.
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