Mactac Engineered Tapes & Laminates
Mactac Engineered Tapes & Laminates is releasing a valuable materials selection guide for customers in the electric vehicle (EV) battery and e-mobility markets.
Mactac manufactures pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) solutions for bonding, mounting and reinforcing specialty materials in these markets, and the guide is designed to help users choose the right PSA for their unique bonding application. It outlines recommended adhesive solutions for substrates that are commonly used in EV battery and e-mobility applications. It also identifies areas where new solutions are needed.
To generate the guide, Mactac collaborated with other materials manufacturers in the EV battery and e-mobility space. Partners included Armacell, ARPLANK, Bergad Specialty Foams, Rogers Corp., and Worldwide Foam.
“It’s important that materials suppliers for the battery market work together to create value and help battery manufacturers and pack integrators find solutions for their unique needs,” says Zachary Gatland, Technical Applications Scientist, Mactac. “With the new materials guide, customers can confidently select the Mactac product that pairs best with the substrate it is bonding.”
PSA-backed specialty materials from Mactac offer thermal management, electrical insulation, NVH dampening, and other properties that can improve battery pack safety and performance, while reducing weight, simplifying design, increasing efficiency, and streamlining manufacturing.
Materials are compatible with many conductive inks, solders, circuity components, printed circuits, and electric components. They can withstand rigorous hot and cold temperature cycling and humidity, as well as exposure to chemicals, organic solvents, cleaners, fuels, hydrocarbon-based fluids, weak acids, and alkalis.
Mactac EV battery/e-mobility solutions feature the Mactac CleanTape adhesive system, which is the industry’s cleanest, lowest outgassing adhesive system.
CleanTape non-VOC adhesives are uniquely suited to optimize the power density of EV batteries, while offering stability and long-term performance inside the pack. Common applications, include pack sealing and gasketing, compression pads, thermal runaway protections, cushioning and dampening, cell wrapping, EMI and RF shielding, electrical insulation, thermal interface, PCK and flexible circuit bonding and busbars.
CleanTape meets important industry standards, specifications, and compliance regulations, including those for VOC emissions (JIS-A 1901), low fog (VDA278 and SAE J1756), low outgassing (E595) and flammability (FMVSS302). It also meets UL969 and CSA 22.2 No. 15 standards for labels and markings.
To view the Mactac EV battery and e-mobility materials guide, visit https://www.mactac.com/userfiles/industrial_tapes/sales_literature/mac4214_materials_guide_ev.pdf.