Vehicle Lashing Rail Application Solutions

tesa® ACXplus vehicle lashing rail bonding tape offers many benefits:

• Instant attachment of lashing rails allows very quick process times saves £’s on labour costs.
• Reduces the requirement for mechanical fastenings.
• No requirement for messy liquid adhesives.

• Application dispensers can be supplied to speed up processes even further.
• tesa® ACXplus has 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 tape to attach vehcile lashing rails provide an instant secure fix with no mess and clean up required compared to liquid adhesives. This application solution alleviates the requirement for drilling and riveting every hole, greatly reducing process times.

Working with our industry partners, Austen Instant Tapes Ltd have been providing tesa® ACXplus tape vehicle lashing rail application solutions for a number of years with our commercial clients.

To discuss you commercial vehicle lashing rail fastening solutions, please contact us.

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Vehicle Lashing Rail Application Solutions With tesa® ACXplus Technical Data

Case Study – Vehicle Lashing Rails

Customers Previous Method And Application

Lashing rails, also known as load track rails, are used to prevent vehicle loads from moving in transit and are absolutely critical for health and safety.

This Hampshire based vehicle converter’s previous load tracks application process used mechanical fixings to attach the rails to the interior of Luton vans and the process of applying approximately 60m of lashing rails typically took anything between 3 to 5 hours, using up to 300 rivets.

Assessment And Solution

After evaluating the customer’s application and current processes, a simplified installation process was identified, greatly reducing the application time and delivering a neater, more aesthetically pleasing finish to the vehicle interior.

The testing period came up with a  solution which reduced rivets from one apprxomately every 2.5cm to one per metre, saving both costs and stress fracturing.

Replacing the combination of mechanical fasteners with tesa® ACXplus double-sided foam tape removed a major step and source of delay from the assembly process.

The new process cut the application time from 3-5 hours down to less than 1 hour.with obvious benefits.

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