Henkel Introduces Additive Manufacturing Materials
Henkel Adhesive Technologies accelerates commercializing tailor-made materials and offers comprehensive services for 3D Printing solutions.
Henkel offers novel materials that enable 3D printing solutions for industrial manufacturing.
With specialized enabling equipment, services and a broad portfolio of postprocessing, Adhesive Technologies can provide total solutions to its customers.
Henkel is partnering with technology leaders such as Carbon and HP to leverage its materials know-how for new customer applications in 3D Printing.
Henkel has announced that it is accelerating its commercialization of tailor-made materials and is offering comprehensive services and equipment know-how for 3D printing solutions to its customers.
Henkel Adhesive Technologies is supplying customers worldwide with a portfolio of high-performance materials such as light cure acrylic, silicone, epoxy and polyurethane adhesives. The business unit develops tailor-made products and services to provide high-impact solutions to various industry segments. Based on its technical expertise and know-how, Henkel has now developed novel materials customized for various 3D printing processes and technologies.
“We believe that the full potential of additive manufacturing will come by identifying the right customer application and focusing the right materials, with the right printing process and leveraging the right software,” says Philipp Loosen, head of 3D printing at Henkel Adhesive Technologies. “We have therefore partnered with strong technology leaders such as Carbon and Hewlett-Packard (HP), which already have developed exciting technologies for 3D printing solutions. These collaborations enable us to leverage our broad materials know-how and customer access to develop new solutions for industrial manufacturing.”
Together with Carbon, Henkel is working on materials and specialized dispensing equipment for polymerization-based 3D printing technologies. The companies have developed a meter mix and dispense device (MMD), a resin dispensing system and accessory to Carbon’s SpeedCell manufacturing system that allows for proper dispensing of Carbon’s materials in bulk quantities. Additionally, Henkel is beginning the development of Loctite resins for Carbon’s materials ecosystem.
Together with HP, Henkel is already working in HP ́s open materials community to develop materials for HP’s powder fusion based jet fusion technology. In addition, the company has become the first global reseller of HP Jet Fusion 3D printing solutions to enable qualifications among industrial production.
