Vehicle Composite Side Wall Joining

tesa® ACXplus vehicle composite side wall joining tapes offer many benefits:

• Instant, strong attachment for joining profiles allows very quick process times that will save £’s on labour costs.
• Reduces the requirement for mechanical fastenings.
• Improves watertightness.
• Application dispensers can be supplied to speed up processes even further.
• Excellent temperature, chemical and ageing resistance with great cold shock resistance.
• Currently being used by your competitors within the commercial body building market!

The use of tesa® ACXplus adhesive tapes for composite side wall joining provides a very strong, secure, instant bond, greatly reducing the requirement for mechanical fasteners and speeds up process times.

We at Austen Instant Tapes Ltd are experienced in providing you with the very best solution for your specific requirements for joining vehicle composite side walls. We have provided tesa® ACXplus tape solutions for many years to industry.

Please contact Austen Instant Tapes Ltd to discuss your requirements.

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Composite Side Wall Joining With tesa ACX® plus Technical Data

Case Study – Vehicle Side Wall Joining

Customers Previous Method And Application

The company manufactured a range of rigid-bodied trailers up to 13.5m long. The walls of it’s trailers are formed of a number of glass reinforced plastic panels, joined at their edges with a T-bar and plate combination. The customer’s existing process relied on a combination of double-sided
foam adhesive tape and numerous screws.

This method provided sufficient strength, but was time consuming to complete and resulted in a large number of highly visible fasteners on the area of the product most obvious to customers and the public.

Assessment And Solution

After evaluating the customer’s application and current processes, it was identified that it would be beneficial to use a higher strength tape, that would reduce the requirement for mechanical fasteners.

This would also save time during assembly, and lead to a cleaner, more aesthetically pleasing and product.

The recommended approach involves the preparation of side wall panels with an application of a tesa® adhesion promoter, followed by the use of 2 types of ACXplus tape, one on the outside of the panel joint and one on  the inside.

A small number of screws are then installed to complete the assembly process. The customer has embarked on a number of manufacturing and vehicle trials using this new approach.

(Case study details kindly provided by tesa®, all rights reserved tesa® 2022 )