A new video from Dow Automotive Systems illustrates how vehicle mass and weight reduction help improve fuel efficiency and lower CO2 emissions. It also addresses the subsequent and biggest challenge for auto makers: how to make lighter weight vehicles affordable to build at high volumes. (read more)
The VORAFORCE™ 5200 Epoxy System is setting a benchmark by meeting challenging component weight reduction goals without compromising production speed, structural integrity or design flexibility. (read more)
Enabling bonding strength and reliability to more and more materials that contribute to vehicle lightweighting, two-component BETAFORCE™ and BETAMATE™ composite bonding adhesives are based on a novel polymer technology that allows for consistent mechanical properties over an extremely wide temperature range, providing industry-leading temperature stability. (read more)
BETAMATE technology provides a high performance bonding solution for a variety of substrates. BETAMATE structural adhesives replace welds and mechanical fasteners and reduce fatigue and failure commonly found around spot welds and fasteners. BETAMATE technology is used in the earliest stage in body design to make it stiffer, safer, lighter and better crash resistant.
BETAMATE 7330... (read more)
BETAFOAM™ Renue two-part polyurethane from Dow Automotive Systems, made with 25% renewable-based material, provides improved acoustical performance of one to five decibels and minimizes resonance build-up while sealing vehicle cavities. They are light weight and create a potential mass savings of up to 30% versus previous generations of BETAFOAM. (read more)
Providing high-performance adhesive to aluminum, steel and other materials, BETAMATE™ polyurethane structural adhesives replace welds and mechanical fasteners, helping improve vehicle durability, reduce weight and reduce manufacturing costs. (read more)
Providing high performance adhesion to a vast range of materials, BETAMATE™ structural adhesives can help improve vehicle durability and reduce weight while providing cost savings. BETAMATE structural adhesives replace welds and mechanical fasteners, helping reduce fatigue and failure commonly found around spot welds and fasteners.
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Dow Automotive Systems offers multiple NVH solutions that can be used to minimize air-borne noise and vibrations to improve vehicle interior quality and comfort. Proven with ACOUSTOMIZE™ Methodology, BETAFOAM™ NVH systems and SPECFLEX™ polyurethane systems can be used in acoustic cavity sealing, carpets, seats, headliners and dashmats. (read more)
Reducing Vehicle Weight and Enhancing Durability
Providing high performance adhesion to a vast range of materials, BETAMATE™ structural adhesives can help improve vehicle durability and reduce weight while providing cost savings. BETAMATE structural adhesives replace welds and mechanical fasteners, helping reduce fatigue and failure commonly found around spot w... (read more)
MEGUM is used for absorbing vibration and impact in industrial, construction, automotive and other transportation applications; Bonding various rubber compounds to metals or other rigid substrates under vulcanization conditions; ctrostatic spray applications.
Advantages
- Suitable for all common curing systems, especially fast-curing natural rubbers and ru...
Elastic adhesive/sealants –solvent free, extrudable sealers with exceptional primerless adhesion and overpaint-ability. (read more)
Dow Automotive Systems provides total solutions to improve the durability, corrosion improvement, light-weight and safety requirements of the commercial vehicle manufacturers with the best effective cost. Our major technologies available and proven within the industry are:
- Elastic and Structural Adhesives and Sealants
- Structural, acoustic and energy managemen...
Dow Automotive Systems offers a wide range of high-performance, rubber-to-substrate bonding agents under the MEGUM™, THIXON™ and ROBOND™ brands to bond elastomeric materials to metal, engineering plastics or other elastomers.
Tough Rubber-to-Metal Adhesives for the Tough Jobs
- THIOKOL™plasticizers for material jacketing<.../li...
ENGAGE polyolefin elastomers offer the flexibility and toughness of synthetic rubber with the processability of plastics and are often used to modify other materials for impact resistance or improved low-temperature performance. Since its development, ENGAGE has become the modifier of choice for automotive TPO (thermoplastic olefins) applications as well as auto interior components and i... (read more)
Permanent Bonding Solution Requires No Drilling, Keeps Material Costs Low
BETALINK™ one- and two-component polyurethane adhesives can be applied to a number of semistructural bonding and sealing applications with the minimal amount of surface preparation required. The adhesives are excellent for gap filling and vibration dampening on applications with multiple substrates.
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UPM and Dow Automotive Systems present pioneering solution for fully bonded plywood trailer floors
UPM and Dow Automotive Systems will present an innovative, new solution for mounting floors to trailer bodies. Using the WISA® Bonded Floor Solution, a combination of WISA® plywood flooring and BETAMATE™ adhesives - which were developed exclusively for this solut... (read more)
Dow Automotive Systems provides technology- and materials-enabled solutions for interior, exterior, powertrain, structural enhancement, acoustic management, emissions control and aftermarket applications in the automotive and commercial transportation industries. (read more)
Increasing demand for comfort, quality and appeal in the automotive interior segments as well as economical and environmental aspects are the key drivers to replace current material offerings. MOR-AD™ & BETAMELT™ reactive hot melt adhesives can help to join a vast range and difficult to bond substrate combinations, improve the joint performance and optimize process... (read more)
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Our superior OEM-quality products can help you repair to "like new" condition, and our innovative technologies mean faster safe drive-away times - even in blazing heat or bone-chilling cold. Boost your own business by getting your customers back in business faster.
Glass and collision repair centers... (read more)
Handy and economical, BETASEAL™ glass bonding systems EZKits from Dow Automotive Systems get your customers back on the road fast.
BETASEAL 0ne EZKit works great in all weather conditions above 0 °F (-17 °C) and has everything you need to deliver one-hour, safe drive-away times for standard or high-modulus, non-conductive (HMNC) applications. The kit contains enough urethane... (read more)
The fast safe drive-away times of Dow Automotive Systems' industry-leading BETASEAL™ U-400HV and BETASEAL™ U-418HV conventional cure, glass-bonding adhesives, are now 25 to 50 percent faster, depending upon temperature and humidity conditions. Our product safe drive-way times:
- Return vehicles to your customers more quickly
- Increase your daily prod...
Dow Automotive Systems offers mutlifunctional solutions for the manufacture and repair of bus, truck, rail, recreation, industrial, emergency and agricultural vehicles. Comprised of elastic and structural bonding adhesives, sealers and acoustical/structural foams, solutions offer high strength, fatigue and crash resistance; improved NVH performance; and better fuel efficiency through wei... (read more)
Our superior OEM-quality products can help you repair to "like new" condition, and our innovative technologies mean faster safe drive-away times - even in blazing heat or bone-chilling cold. Boost your own business by getting your customers back in business faster. (read more)
Rigorous testing and ongoing formulation optimization by Dow Automotive Systems have validated the safe use of industry-leading BETAPRIME™ 5404A Pinchweld and Encapsulation Primer down to zero degrees Fahrenheit (-17.8 degrees Celsius) with a drying time of 12 minutes. Aftermarket technicians can use this versatile pinchweld and encapsulation primer at temperatures as low as 20°F (... (read more)
