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Body-in-White

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Bringing Body-in-White to Life

  • The designs you’re thinking of often depend on subtle curves and contours. They must also be functional. Achieving both at once presents real challenges. Especially when your body-in-white designs could incorporate dozens of sensors and cameras, and sit on electrified powertrains. At 3M, we deliver technologically advanced abrasives, structural adhesives, engineered damping materials and flexible sealants, to name a few, to help move your design out of your head and onto the production line. That’s what we’re doing today. Tell us what you’re thinking about tomorrow. We’re happy to help.

Solutions for the Entire BIW Process

As 3M actively works to develop new technologies and combine existing ones, we are continually discovering solutions that solve more than one challenge at a time. That’s why we can meet the needs of automotive OEM professionals and Tier suppliers wherever they are in the automotive body-in-white process, from design to simulation to assembly.

  • Auto assembly icon
    3M delivers solutions to make your designs truly viable through application and assembly. High-strength hollow glass microspheres make the components themselves easier to manage. Structural liquids and tapes help streamline automation and can eliminate process steps.
  • Auto bonding and joining icon
    3M solves and redefines material joining solutions with a full range of adhesive technologies for bonding similar and dissimilar materials. Solutions include tapes, liquids and structural modified epoxy films that can be pre-applied by Tier 1 and heat-cured in as little as 15 minutes.
  • Auto isolation icon
    As EV and other trends continue to drive automotive design, 3M responds with melt seal and structural adhesives that help ensure BIW isolation materials will stay exactly where they need to be over the long term – even in load-bearing applications between dissimilar substrates.
  • Auto lightweighting feather icon
    Lightweighting
    Reducing weight is a core challenge in automotive design and a focal point for multiple 3M technologies. 3M™ Glass Bubbles enable density reduction in plastic and composites. Structural adhesives can replace mechanical fasteners, and thermoset tapes seal joined panels right in the paint shop.
  • Auto noise, vibration and harshness icon
    Major OEMs already rely on 3M foams, damping materials and structural adhesives for successful body-in-white NVH simulation and validation. Through our own OEM-grade facilities, we continue to develop what the future of automobiles sounds like.
  • Auto surface preparation icon
    3M abrasives allow for the true expression of automotive design. Electrostatically oriented, Precision-Shaped Grains and 3M microreplication technology ensure consistency and precision whether used by hand, on a machine or configured for a range of robotic equipment.
3M Structural Adhesives for where you work on the vehicle

Our structural adhesive liquids and tapes are available in epoxy, acrylic and urethane chemistries. That means you can add structural strength to a broad range of areas and applications. Explore them here.

 
3M™ Structural Adhesive Technologies
  • 3M™ Structural Adhesive Technologies

    Structural adhesives can do much more than provide strength to automotive bonds. They can help you hit your targets for lightweighting, corrosion protection, crash safety and more. You can use structural adhesives in conjunction with mechanical fasteners and, in many cases, you can replace them. They can also save you significant time and money during production by enabling mixed materials, reducing panel fatigue and resin degradation, filling gaps, managing NVH, and reducing process steps. 3M Structural Adhesives are available in varying chemistries and formats so you can use them in multiple areas of the vehicle. Our experts are happy to help you determine the right structural adhesive solution for your specific needs, including automated application.

    Find out more about 3M™ Structural Adhesive Technologies
  • 3M™ structural adhesive tape brochure
    Featured Solution: 3M™ Structural Adhesive Tape SAT1010M (PDF, 4.13 MB)

    This structural adhesive does far more than just help bond substrates. 3M™ Structural Adhesive Tape SAT1010M allows technicians to apply adhesive in precise locations with consistent thicknesses, ideal as an alternative to clinch flange adhesion and for preventing galvanic corrosion. Learn more about how this solution can save time and increase efficiency in OEM manufacturing processes.

Need Help Finding the Right Solution?

3M is constantly working to meet the evolving challenges of automotive OEM and Tier suppliers worldwide. If you need help finding an existing solution or would like to talk about specific ideas you’re working on, get in touch with us.

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