With Henkel, customers can take advantage of the broadest line of engineering surface pretreatments, adhesives and sealants available. The breadth of Henkel’s product portfolio delivers cost-effective solutions for all electrical distribution automation, power quality and distribution system reliability, and distributed generation applications. 

An Industry Leader
Henkel is a major supplier to the electrical distribution/devices/enclosures industry. Focused industry solutions backed by industry specific products and best in-class support available have resulted in long-term relationships with satisfied customers.

A Technology Innovator
Henkel products stand at the forefront of a rapidly evolving industry. The company’s custom-formulated, environmentally friendly surface treatments, adhesives, and sealants are a result of consultations with machine builders and Henkel’s analysis of real-world production environments, conducted with the objective of lowering production costs for our customers.

The Highest Standards
Maintaining or improving efficiency for our customers is Henkel’s primary focus. The company’s line of superior surface treatments, coolants, light-draw compounds, cleaners, and rust protection products work in conjunction with Henkel’s outstanding line of adhesives and sealants, providing customers with everything they require from one experienced, reliable source. 

Products You Can Trust
From transformers and capacitors to sectionalizers and switchgear, Henkel products help to optimize the assembly-line process. Key product applications include:

• Potting lead wires and pin connectors
• Formed in place and cured in place gasketing
• Tacking gaskets into position
• General bonding
• Surface Treatment prior to painting
• Metal forming.

Excellence across the Value Chain
The company’s long-running lubricants and coolants have earned widespread operator acceptance for their transparent machining and powerful resistance to bacterial growth. The exceptional performance of Henkel’s pretreatment products reduce the amount of time that field personnel must devote to preparation or recoating issues in the field.

While potting is universally used, FIP and CIP gaskets are often overlooked.  These high quality, low cost solutions are more easily automated than using cut gaskets or O-rings.

As more companies discover the environmental advantages of nickel-free phosphates, Henkel offers cutting-edge nickel-free products that not only achieve equal results, but actually outperform our competitors’ nickel-bearing phosphates.

The Bonderite Difference
Henkel’s patented Bonderite NT-1 pretreatment combines unmatched performance with cost and labor benefits no other product can achieve. Bonderite NT-1 is an ambient temperature, phosphate-free pretreatment that creates a nanoceramic coating on steel, zinc, and aluminum surfaces. This revolutionary, maintenance-free technology provides an advanced surface composition, a more consistent coating, and requires no post treatment.

Henkel’s Custom Solutions
With Henkel, customers gain not only a reliable supplier but also a partner in the pursuit of excellence. The company’s tech support team has the product line expertise to examine every aspect of each customer’s operation, from the moment the metal arrives at the plant to when finished products are packaged and shipped.

If any issues arise, Henkel problem-solvers can discover the solution, even if Henkel products are not utilized in that particular phase of the manufacturing operation. Beyond mere troubleshooting, Henkel can usually recommend a better product to reduce the likelihood of reoccurrence.

Cleaner, Cost-Efficient Products Courtesy of Henkel
Saving time and money, while saving the environment as well? That’s Henkel efficiency.

Challenge: A large manufacturing company wanted to switch from a multi-layer paint system to a single layer primer with a top coat for color, while still meeting its specifications for high-end paint requirements. The company also wished to avoid nickel products.

Solution: Using Henkel’s nickel-free technology, the company achieved a hard savings of more than $500,000 annually, while also enjoying reduced energy consumption and increased floor space in their plant.

Challenge: A manufacturer of electrical control boxes experienced problems with its two paint pretreatment systems. The plant struggled with excessive sludge levels in their phosphate stage and was unhappy with the amount of maintenance time required to keep the system operating at peak performance.

Solution: Henkel’s Bonderite 1080MM had a positive impact on the amount of sludge generated. However, further improvement was desired, as the plant was still investing maintenance time dealing with sludge building in the tanks and clogging nozzles. Henkel proposed the use of Bonderite NT-1, an exclusive new technology. 

Bonderite creates a thin film of nanostructured particles on the metal substrate, providing superior paint adhesion and corrosion performance on the most commonly used metals when compared to iron phosphate programs.  The result? Reduced energy consumption and an increase in the bath life of the post treatment tank from 3 weeks to 3 or 4 months.

The plant has achieved annual energy savings of nearly $80,000, in addition to reductions in water, electricity and labor.