Bodo Möller Chemie Group established own Adhesive Competence Center (ACC)
ACC offers lab testing, education, design and audit support for the use of adhesives
Offenbach am Main, September 6, 2018 – The worldwide expert for specialty chemical products, Bodo Möller Chemie Group, has established its own Adhesive Competence Center (ACC). The new unit consolidates all services related to the requirements of industrial adhesive bonding. The ACC concentrates all knowledge for adhesive applications in automotive, rail, aerospace and electronics industry. The testing laboratory offers important knowledge for industrial usage of adhesives and polymer resins and implemented more than 15 test methods and standards. The laboratory is certified according to EN6701-2 (Adhesive bonding for railway industries), DIN 2304 (Quality requirements for adhesive bonding processes) and ISO 9001:2015 (Quality management). The test methods include LSS, peel test, aging, surface analyzing and any other required for special applications.
Design, audit and education
With complex design services, the Bodo Möller Chemie design office offers calculation and design of bonding joints based on the lab test results by standard mathematical methods and FEM software. The design office is certified according to EN 6701-2 and DIN 2304 on A1/S1 class for calculations of bonding joints. The specialist in chemical products also offers initial audits preparing a client’s company for the fulfillment of EN 6701 and DIN2304 certification audits executed by TBB Cert or TC-Kleben. For end users in industrial production environment, the Bodo Möller Chemie Adhesive Competence Center offers workshops and seminars for clients as well as practical bonding trainings.
Emerging market adhesives
The global market for industrial adhesives is growing in many industrial areas. The main reason behind stable growth of the industrial adhesive market is its physical properties, and ease of use in production process. “Our Adhesives Competence Center enables the industry to open up an added value chain. We open up our technical knowledge to support the R&D-departments of our industrial clients”, says Frank Haug, CEO of Bodo Möller Chemie. The long-term experience in the market, conformity with the important ISO standards and competence in applications for modern adhesives give clients from different industrial areas valuable assistance.
With 40 years’ experience in selling specialty chemicals, the Bodo Möller Chemie Group (www.bm-chemie.com) is the leading partner of renowned global chemical companies, like Huntsman, DowDuPont, HB Fuller, BASF and Henkel. The company’s products include high-performance epoxy resin, polyurethane and silicone-based adhesives, thermosetting plastics (epoxy resin, polyester, polyurethane, silicone), pigments and additives, textile agents, dyes, electro casting resins, tooling and laminating resins and composites. Proprietary production facilities and laboratories for customer-specific formulations and application tests complete the portfolio of Bodo Möller Chemie, headquartered in Offenbach, Germany. The experts at Bodo Möller Chemie offer their customers all over the world targeted advice and customized on-site services to help them find the optimum product solutions tailored to the individual requirements of many different sectors.
