Sika has announced that half of all the cars produced worldwide - approximately 40 million vehicles per year - contain one of its products. One in four car windshields is adhesively bonded using Sika products. These “invisible” high performance products are designed to help the automotive industry find practical solutions to current issues in vehicle construction, such as crash resistance and lightweight design.
Sika showcased its own technologies during an event held in Switzerland for media representatives and analysts, taking the latest European premium brand vehicle models as an example. Sika‘s CEO, Jan Jenisch, told the audience: “Sika currently generates around 20 percent of sales in the vehicles industry. We are well placed to exploit the huge potential in the growth markets of the future, such as China, and to further extend our leading position.
"Sika‘s adhesives and processing materials are helping to drive forward the megatrends in the automotive industry: electromobility, lightweight design and bonding various, very different materials. For example, carbon fibers and aluminum can only be adhesively bonded together; they cannot be welded.”
