HOW ADHESIVE TAPES CAN INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY IN COMMERCIAL VEHICLE CONVERSION

摘要

Commercial vehicle bodybuilders, suppliers and vehicle conversion specialists are increasingly turning to adhesive tapes in a range of applications to increase productivity, safely. To show why so many are using such tape to speed up assembly time, tesa®, one of the world's leading manufacturers of technical adhesive tapes, explains the application capabilities and successes of this solution. Every converter strives for continual productivity improvement, but for commercial vehicle bodybuilders, the challenge is particularly acute. Truck bodies and trailers are physically large, frequently customised and constructed using labour-intensive manual processes. Those characteristics make it difficult to remove excess materials from production operations by conventional means. The productivity challenge is further compounded by the nature of the product. Commercial vehicle applications frequently require accurate, large-span connections between dissimilar materials. Such bonds are required where plywood or GRP panels are fixed to the steel or alloy body frames, for example, or for the installation of flooring, interior load securing rails and exterior rub rails.