EV Focus: Technologies for Electromobility

About Antala?

We go beyond distribution to provide technical support at all stages of the specialty chemicals journey, from understanding the design stage to online and in-house support. Our adhesives, sealants, and industrial lubricants portfolio provides our clients with an optimised speciality chemical supply chain, ensuring premium technologies and expertise.

Electromobility represents a pivotal shift towards sustainable and climate-friendly transportation. Mirroring global trends, the popularity of e-mobility has surged in recent years, driven by the growing demand and awareness. At Antala, we recognise that e-mobility applications require more than just standard materials; they need advanced, specifically designed solutions. Our adhesive technologies offer benefits from the individual cell level to the battery pack, power conversion systems, and control units, whilst our range of e-mobility lubricants provides anti-corrosion protection, enhanced durability, safety, and longevity for a better overall driving experience.?

EV Technologies

The latest innovations in automotive electronic materials and technologies make it easier to manufacture lightweight, high-energy-density lithium-ion batteries and their related subsystems, crucial to enabling the broader ranges and rapid growth expectations of today’s electric and hybrid-electric vehicles. Moreover, high-strength and durable structural technologies allow for greater design flexibility for modern automakers.

• Adhesives & Sealants: High-performance adhesives ensure structural integrity, durability, and the protection of core components. These technologies are crucial to the development and manufacturing of next-generation electric vehicles.
• E-mobility Lubricants: Lubricants allow e-mobility manufacturers and maintenance teams to reduce friction, fight corrosion, ensure heat transfer, and provide electrical insulation.
• Electronic Protection: Electronics are the beating heart of e-mobility. Protecting electrical components is essential to long-term vehicle performance and reliability.
• E-mobility Composites: Composite materials are lightweight and high strength, making them well-suited for reducing electric vehicle weight and improving battery efficiencies.
• Thermal Protection: Thermal protection materials safeguard electric vehicles from the high temperatures endured throughout their lifespan, allowing manufacturers to optimise vehicle performance.?

EV Applications

We provide solutions that reduce weight, lower costs, and respect the environment.

Antala offers complete manufacturing solutions for e-mobility applications, including vehicle interiors, exteriors, and battery electronics. Our specialised technological applications are enabling the advancement of e-mobility, unlocking the future of sustainable automotive transport.

Electronics:

• Electric Motor: Assemble and protect electric motors with our range of adhesives, thermal management materials, and speciality lubricants.
• Battery Pack: Our technologies provide battery lid bonding and sealing, cell bonding, electronic protection, thermal management, and enclosure assembly.
• Battery Module: Conformal coatings protect battery modules from harsh environmental conditions and shield components from contaminants.
• Vehicle Propulsion: Improve vehicle propulsion efficiencies whilst reducing and controlling high temperatures with our range of e-mobility lubricants.

Interiors & Exteriors:?

• Structural Bonding: Bond a vehicle’s structural components whilst reducing weight, enhancing strength and durability, and increasing design flexibility with speciality adhesives.
• Direct Glazing: Secure the windshield and sunroof directly onto painted metal, aluminium, or reinforced plastic with our specialist adhesives.
• Interior Elements: Manufacture, assemble, and protect interior elements such as the trim, centre console, gearbox, doors, and seats.
• Vehicle Propulsion: Improve vehicle propulsion efficiencies whilst reducing and controlling high temperatures with our range of e-mobility lubricants.

Brands

We partner with the best-in-class global brands with trusted experience in automaking and e-mobility, providing a range of adhesives and sealants, industrial lubricants, electronic protection, coatings, composites, and more. Across our brand portfolio, we provide comprehensive and premium solutions for e-mobility, including the cutting-edge innovation sectors at the forefront of powering our future. Our best-in-class products perfectly align with the market sectors we serve, with plenty of crossovers, allowing us to solve one problem whilst providing a range of other solutions to upscale and optimise your processes.?

Dupont

DuPont offers a comprehensive suite of solutions for e-mobility, encompassing materials for battery packs, e-motors, electronics, and control components, helping to ensure safety, reliability, durability, and performance. DuPont’s BETAMATE, BETASEAL, and BETAFORCE adhesives are a family of high-performance structural adhesives designed for e-mobility manufacturing. These adhesives offer high strength and durability, excellent adhesion to various substrates, fast cure times, and low VOC emissions.?

Huntsman

Huntsman’s advanced, high-performance materials provide a range of essential benefits that contribute to an EVs enhanced design and performance. Huntsman’s commitment to innovation in adhesive technology is driving developments in e-mobility, enabling the production of more efficient electric vehicles. The Araldite range helps automakers protect vehicles, devices, and components against chemical, mechanical, and electrical loads whilst enhancing vehicle safety, comfort, aesthetics, efficiency, and environmental impact.

DOWSIL

DOWSIL has developed a range of high-performance silicone-based adhesives, sealants, gels, encapsulants, and thermally conductive materials specifically designed for the e-mobility industry. DOWSIL’s innovative range of solutions enhances assembly efficiency, improves durability and reliability, protects sensitive components, optimises thermal management, and contributes to overall vehicle performance. As the e-mobility industry evolves, DOWSIL is continually developing future-facing material solutions.

Bostik?

Bostik has developed unique technologies for e-mobility battery systems in order to improve battery and passenger safety, increase performance levels, simplify the assembly process, reduce costs, and further sustainability. Bostik’s smart battery solutions address the real-world challenges facing e-mobility safety, sustainability, reliability, and efficiency. Bostik helps manufacturers navigate stringent environmental standards, strong market competitiveness, fast charging requirements, and high-range outputs.

Permabond

Permabond is a leading global manufacturer of high-performance adhesives, offering a comprehensive range of solutions specifically tailored for the e-mobility industry. These innovative adhesives play a pivotal role in addressing the unique challenges and demands of e-mobility. Contributing to enhanced performance, extended durability, and improved safety, Permabond adhesives are designed to ensure structural integrity, thermal performance, stability, efficiency, and longevity. Permabond adhesives are known for their exceptional strength and resistance.

Molykote

Molykote high-performance lubricants and coatings reduce friction, wear, and noise, extending the lifespan of EV components. Compatible with a wide range of materials, including plastics, metals, and elastomers, Molykote lubricants are the perfect solution for many e-mobility applications. Molykote can lubricate various interior, exterior, and electronic components within vehicle manufacturing and after-sales care. Using Molykote lubricants extends a vehicle’s lifespan, reduces noise, vibration, and harshness, increases efficiency, and improves thermal management.

Tectyl

Tectyl offers an innovative range of anti-corrosion protective materials that prevent corrosive substances from penetrating an electric vehicle’s metal components, batteries, wiring, chassis, panels, etc. Tectyl products also contain rust inhibitors to further safeguard against oxidation. Enhancing durability and safety whilst reducing environmental impact, Tectyl provides long-lasting, comprehensive automotive and e-mobility solutions that safeguard almost every metal surface from corrosion, chipping, peeling, and impingement abrasion, helping manufacturers and aftermarket suppliers avoid repairs and minimise downtime.

Krytox?

Krytox offers a family of high-performance lubricants specifically designed for the demanding requirements of electric vehicle applications. These lubricants have a unique combination of properties, making them ideal for protecting and maintaining the critical components of EVs. Krytox lubricants offer excellent chemical stability, superior thermal conductivity, low volatility, a wide operating temperature range, and electrical insulation that improves the performance and operation of motor bearings, battery components, thermal management systems, gears, transmissions, and ECUs.

Contact Antala

Contact us for the best-in-class electromobility solutions for your EV manufacturing. Visit antala.uk or talk to our team of technical experts by contacting [email protected] or calling 0161 494 1345.