Recognising excellence Henkel

recognising excellence

Henkel Adhesives Technologies continues to celebrate the strategic partnerships that drive its market-leading innovations

At its annual supplier award ceremony in Düsseldorf in November (2019) Henkel Adhesive Technologies has once again recognised the outstanding performance of its strategic partners and their close and successful collaborations across the value chains. This year the companies Eastman, BYK and Evonik won awards in the categories of Operational Excellence, Innovation and Sustainability.

“The close collaboration between Henkel and our strategic suppliers is a key success factor for our business”, said Michael Todd, Global Head of Innovation and New Business Development at Henkel Adhesive Technologies. “Their know-how and performance enable us to continuously drive powerful innovations and to unlock new potentials across our businesses. These strong and trustful partnerships are essential to developing innovative solutions for our customers and to further gain competitive advantages in the diverse markets we serve.”

“The close cooperation and open exchange with our strategic suppliers throughout the entire value chain enable us to translate the needs

and expectations of our customers into tailor-made and meaningful solutions,” added Thomas Holenia, Corporate Vice President Purchasing at Henkel. “By aligning our strategic priorities and supply chains we increase agility and quality and achieve excellence in supply performance, innovation and sustainability. This is even more important in today’s challenging market environment across the globe.”

operational excellence Award: eastman

Henkel presented the Operational Excellence Award to Eastman, a specialty chemical materials company headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee, USA. The recognition was granted for Eastman´s outstanding supply performance over several consecutive years, as well as its ongoing efforts to ensure competitiveness in an increasingly challenging market environment. Eastman has delivered an excellent service level degree with best in class ‘On-Time’ and ‘In-Full’ scores. In addition, the company demonstrated its commitment to top tier quality standards as well as to strong mutual cooperation among the Supply Chain Teams of Henkel and Eastman – a first-class delivery performance along with an exceptional view on chemical feedstocks. Innovation Award: BYK

Henkel’s Innovation Award went to BYK, a leading provider of additives for a broad range of industries, headquartered in Wesel, Germany and a member of the Altana group. BYK’s additives are performance-critical ingredients in a variety of formulations across adhesives, sealants and construction chemicals. Its collaboration with Henkel was based on open exchange and an early access to innovations which resulted in BYK’s growing contribution to numerous innovation projects and successful product launches by the Adhesive Technologies business unit. BYK was recognised for its strong customer-orientation and excellent technical customer service. Customercentricity has also been proven through digital training and information sharing via exclusive tools and channels that helped to increase the interconnectivity of BYK with Henkel´s global R&D community.

Sustainability Award: eVoNIK

Henkel presented the Sustainability Award to EVONIK, a global specialty chemicals company headquartered in Essen, Germany. The recognition was granted for EVONIK´s achievements in developing

innovative product solutions while reducing its environmental impact. In 2019 EVONIK demonstrated excellent support for Henkel’s sustainability targets and made the best contribution to Henkel’s sustainability objectives. The strong partnership between both companies was characterised by open exchange and access focused on sustainable innovations. This strong collaboration resulted in a solution-based project portfolio including bio-based materials, improvements for a circular economy, replacements of substances of very high concern (SHVC) and transparency on CO2 footprint data

World leader

Henkel Adhesive Technologies is the global leader in the adhesives market – across all industry segments worldwide. It is one of the three business units of the Henkel Group. Like Henkel’s Laundry & Home Care and Beauty Care businesses it operates globally with a well-balanced and diversified portfolio and holds leading positions in both industrial and consumer markets thanks to strong brands, innovations and technologies in adhesives, sealants and functional coatings.

Its industrial product portfolio is organised into five Technology Cluster Brands - Loctite, Bonderite, Technomelt, Teroson and Aquence. For consumer and professional markets, it focuses on four global brand platforms Pritt, Loctite, Ceresit and Pattex.

In the Packaging and Consumer Goods Adhesives business area, Henkel works with major brand manufacturers and international customers to develop innovative and sustainable solutions for food packaging and consumer goods. Its Transport and Metal business area provides customers in the automotive, aircraft and aerospace, and metal processing industries with outstanding system solutions, a comprehensive technology portfolio, and specialised technical services.

In the General Industry business area, a comprehensive portfolio of products is offered for the manufacture and maintenance of durable goods while its Electronics Business delivers a specialized portfolio of innovative high-technology adhesives and materials for the manufacture of microchips, electronic assemblies and thermal management systems. The Adhesives for Consumers, Craftsmen and Building business area markets an extensive range of brandname products for private, trade and construction users.

Driving the future

Today Henkel Adhesive Technologies is making a vital contribution to the transformation of the automotive industry. The car of the future will be electrified, connected to its environment, autonomously driven, and even shared among several users. Optimising the design of these future vehicles will require a combination of engineering and material science expertise.

Henkel Adhesive solutions include thermal interface materials, like gap filler technology, which will help batteries run safely at a consistent temperature. Other technical examples from the portfolio include adhesive technologies for bonding battery cells together, and UV light purification solutions that reduce cycle times and lower processing costs.

“Our portfolio includes thermal interface materials, adhesives, sealants and functional coatings for battery packs, but also other specific components on the car,” says Frank Kerstan, director e-mobility & Powertrain at Henkel. “We combine this material expertise together with engineering support to work with our customers on new designs in a very early phase, to ultimately allow them to achieve smarter and more cost-efficient designs for certain components.” n