Market Background

Automotive manufacturing in Southeast Asia continues to expand, bringing increasing attention to the materials used in interior assembly. Interior components require adhesives that can provide reliable bonding while meeting changing requirements related to emissions, worker exposure and material selection.

For adhesive manufacturers,It's not simply to replace an existing material with a lower-emission option. The new formulation also needs to maintain the application and bonding performance expected by automotive interior manufacturers.

Customer and Application

The customer supplies adhesive products for automotive interior applications, including the bonding of decorative and functional interior components. The product needed to meet established performance expectations while responding to the customer's requirements for a more environmentally considerate formulation.

The main focus was therefore to find a high quality polymer that could provide a balance between bonding performance, flexibility, application characteristics and environmental requirements.

RISUN's Solution

RISUN provided high quality STP & SMP polymer for the customer's formulation development. As a moisture-curing polymer technology, STP & SMP polymer provides a basis for developing one-component adhesive systems with a different formulation approach from conventional solvent-based or other adhesive technologies.

The polymer was incorporated into the customer's formulation to balance adhesion, curing behavior and workability for automotive interior bonding. The formulation was designed around the specific requirements of interior components and the customer's production process rather than focusing on a single performance characteristic.

Customer Feedback

During application evaluation, the customer found that the solution provided the bonding and application performance required for its target interior applications while offering a formulation route aligned with its environmental objectives.

The combination of performance and environmental considerations gave the customer greater flexibility when evaluating adhesive technologies for future automotive interior products.

Conclusion

For adhesive manufacturers serving the automotive market, environmental considerations increasingly need to be addressed alongside established performance requirements. In this case, RISUN STP polymer provided a practical basis for developing an automotive interior adhesive that balances bonding performance, application characteristics and environmental requirements.