Trim Component Attachment Tapes for Automotive Exterior Bonding
For more flexibility in design, weight reduction and minimal impact on vehicle body parts, automakers worldwide need reliable solutions for attaching exterior components like emblems and nameplates, body side moldings, wheel flares or pillar appliques. Our diverse portfolio of acrylic and polyurethane tapes offers high conformability, strong shear resistance and excellent adhesion properties that may require use of adhesion promoter or surface treatment for ideal bonding performance. Available in various thicknesses, these OEM specified tapes are versatile options for trendsetting car design, allowing new forms, directions and processes through facilitated, secure and flexible attachment of challenging part designs.
Acrylic grade tapes
Norbond® Traditional Acrylic Grade Tapes offer outstanding viscoelastic and adhesion properties to provide ideal bonding performance for many automotive exterior trim and nameplate applications. These tapes incorporate a general-purpose acrylic adhesive, which delivers good performance on many OEM clear coats and primed plastics and the firmer core brings good shear resistance and good die-cuttability.
Polyurethane tapes
Norbond Polyurethane Tapes combine a high-density, conformable polyurethane foam substrate with high-performance acrylic adhesive on both sides with excellent adhesion to automotive clear coat systems. The foam substrate combines great conformability, shear resistance and die-cuttability with absorption and distribution stress forces over the entire bond line for secure attachment of challenging part designs, nameplates or emblems.
Norbond adhesion promoters
Norbond Adhesion Promoters are formulated for use with acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive systems, such as those used on Norbond Attachment Tapes. When applied to plastic substrates, they can help raise the surface energy in order to improve the ultimate bond strength of the tape. Formulations with UV detection additives are also available to aid in processing.
- 2287A: This formulation is designed for MSE substrates such as rigid PVC, ABS and Polycarbonate.
Trim Component Attachment Tape Material Selection Guide
| Product Code | Color | Adhesive Construction | Product Code (Standard Available Thickness in mm) | 90° Peel Adhesion (N/cm) - LS to Painted Panel (20 min) | 90° Peel Adhesion (N/cm) - LS to Painted Panel (72 hr) | Static Shear (80°C/500g) | Common Application |
| Z1000 | Grey | Symmetric | Z1006 (0.6 mm) Z1008 (0.8 mm) Z1011 (1.14 mm) |
11 | 13 | > 7 days (on painted panel) | Small to medium trim attachment |
| Z1200 | Grey | Single layer | 0.5 mm | 7 | 9 | > 7 days (on painted panel) | Locator pin attachment |
| Product Code | Color | Adhesive Construction | Product Code (Standard Available Thickness in mm) | 90° Peel Adhesion (N/cm) - LS to Painted Panel (20 min) | 90° Peel Adhesion (N/cm) - LS to Painted Panel (72 hr) | Static Shear (80°C/500g) | Common Application |
| E500 | Black | Symmetric | E520 (0.5 mm) E530 (0.8 mm) E545 (1.14 mm) E562 (1.6 mm) E590 (2.3 mm) E5120 (3.0 mm) |
8 | 10 | > 7 days (on painted panel) | Emblem and nameplate attachment |
