Powerful bond. Primerless process.

Bonding of attachment parts to car bodies can be very challenging, parts that need to be bonded to a vehicle have different levels of surface energy. Dissimilar materials like plastics, metal, and glass have different coefficients of thermal expansion, so when they warm up or cool down, they expand and contract at different rates. Acrylic foam based adhesive tapes, thanks to its viscoelastic feature, join materials safely and permanently. For this reason attachment parts like emblems, body side moldings, rocker panels, and fender flares can be securely mounted to exterior car body surfaces and withstand all external influences throughout the vehicle’s lifetime.

tesa® ACX^plus Primerless Line is our high performance tapes for exterior attachment part mounting. Because it is primerless, this double-sided acrylic foam tape delivers a permanent bond from the moment it’s applied – without the need for primer. Applying primer as part of the attachment part mounting process is an expensive, time-consuming, and hazardous process. So if you can eliminate the primer in production, you can get bottom line benefits from greater process efficiency and a lower total process cost. On top, it can be applied at a wide range of temperature, within the first minute after application our primerless products reach a near-ultimate peel adhesion level on most substrates, whereas the typical solutions on the market need hours to days for achieving ultimate performance. At the same time, the more environmentally friendly production line helps you meet stricter environmental standards and provide healthier working conditions.

• Viscoelastic acrylic foam core to compensate for different thermal elongation of bonded parts
• Outstanding wet-out property
• High humidity and UV resistance

To learn more about the technical aspects of our line of high performance tapes for exterior attachment part mounting, please visit our exterior automotive webpage.