Automakers Turning To Exotic Adhesives To Save Weight

Carmakers including Audi and Mercedes-Benz are turning to high-tech adhesives as they seek ways to make cars lighter and tougher.

Automakers are now using more aluminum and exotic composites, which cannot be welded together but have to be glued with adhesives that will not lose their strength and can hold together parts even at top speeds and high pressure. That puts industrial adhesives -- made up of chemicals like the polyolefins that are used in Croc shoes and tennis racket strings -- at the top of carmakers' shopping lists.

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skytop - 6/8/2013 8:17:01 PM

+2 Boost

You mean new cars will be crazy glued together? Yuck