DRIVING SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH INNOVATION
TECHNOLOGY CENTER BRIDGEWATER
Visit the Technology Center Bridgewater to experience our state-of-the-art R&D facilities, breakthrough technologies, and partner network to help you achieve your sustainability goals
At Henkel Adhesive Technologies, we believe innovation is key in driving sustainability.
At the Technology Center Bridgewater, we invite customers, industry partners and academia to collaborate with our experts: This is where we innovate customized and sustainable technologies across the North America region.
Interact with our experts, get inspired on a customized tour, and innovate at a workshop or event, where you can explore how our solutions can help you achieve your sustainability goals.
I have to say that the whole CX was a great experience. It was very informative to see the different sustainability solutions that Henkel brings to partners and customers.
OEM Partner Director
The open environment of the center gave the impression of exchange and collaboration and was very welcoming. The detail in each of the specialized testing areas, from the lab to the equipment, truly demonstrated Henkel’s expertise and commitment to sustainability.
OEM Partner Director
Our team found Henkel’s Technology Center Bridgewater to be an excellent opportunity to showcase Henkel’s focus on sustainability and emerging technologies. Many small customers aspire to use the same technologies as the global leaders in their industry. The center makes them feel this is possible for them too.
Vice President & CFO
Fascinating experience exploring technology and sustainability at the Technology Center Bridgewater. The visit provided inspiration and a glimpse into a greener, tech-driven future.
E-Commerce Director
I came away from Henkel’s Technology Center Bridgewater thoroughly impressed. The new renovation is aesthetically pleasing and showcases the collaborative team atmosphere that Henkel runs on. It is always astounding the number of items in our lives that Henkel has its hands on, and even more impressive is the amount of innovation happening at Henkel to provide a better future.
Applications Engineer
Truly a world class experience that made the trip worthwhile. Highly educational and customized for what we wanted to discuss. Highly recommended.
Senior Vice President of Sales
ACCELERATE YOUR INNOVATION PROCESS
Experience the Technology Center Bridgewater and find new technology solutions to your challenges via a customized tour, during a technology exploration workshop or both:
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
LABORATORIES
Nonwovens Lab
Flexible Packaging Adhesive & Coating Lab
Furniture & Building Components Lab
Analytical Solutions Lab
Paper Packaging Lab
Pressure Sensitive Lab
Packaging & Labeling Lab
Nonwovens Lab
Featuring a state-of-the-art nonwovens single and dual lamination hygiene coater, the nonwovens production coater enables a wide range of adhesive application technologies to support any nonwoven disposable conversion process. Together with brand owners, we are conducting trials for new adhesive applications using Henkel's TECHNOMELT® portfolio of hot melt adhesives for the nonwoven disposables industry (baby diapers, feminine hygiene, adult incontinence products).
Sustainability Benefits:
Construction elastic and positioning adhesive that are high bio-based content for hygienics applications. Saves production down time by providing on-site trial/testing that mimics production standards. Easyflow® technology that allow customers to run adhesive on-demand, saving energy consumption, reduced carbon footprint and auto feeding system saves human interaction with heat reduction potential injuries.
Flexible Packaging Adhesive & Coating Lab
Packaging is at the heart of food safety and extended shelf-life, with an ever-increasing demand from retailers and consumers for innovative and sustainable packaging. We use our expertise to focus on delivering solutions without compromising on high standards of performance and versatility. Focusing primarily on LOCTITE® adhesives and coatings, the new labs are designed for evaluation, design and testing, full-scale equipment, and state-of-the-art customer training facilities to support the needs of converters and brand owners.
Sustainability Benefits:
We advance sustainability by creating innovative adhesive and coatings that enable circularity and new end of life scenarios for flexible packaging. Some of these solutions facilitate the shift to mono-material structures, making recycling easier and reducing packaging waste.
Furniture & Building Components Lab
Changes in construction requires innovative approaches to assure happy consumers. From waterborne or hot melt adhesive chemistries to sprayable or roll-on applications, manufacturers require faster dry times, better bonding strength, and increased application ease. This lab features equipment to test engineered wood bonding, furniture, and building component adhesive application testing.
Sustainability Benefits:
Our products enhance sustainability through manufacturing of building components and furniture including: ceiling tiles, roofing, insulation, façade, doors, windows, flooring, desks, and mattresses. We offer waterborne, urethane, and hot melt adhesives with fast drying, strong bonding, and easy application. Our lab tests engineered wood bonding, fire resistance, and adhesive performance for building and furniture components. These solutions improve manufacturing efficiency and support sustainable production.
Analytical Solutions Lab
Visit the Analytical Solutions Lab and benefit from our first-class analytical and rheological capabilities: Chemical Structure Identification, Composition Quantification, Surface and Interface Morphology and Polymer Characterization.
Sustainability Benefits:
We collaborate closely with our partners to meet sustainability needs through advanced testing methods. Our trace analysis ensures food packaging complies with legal standards, while degradability testing supports green labeling. We also use in-house methods and advanced polymer characterization to assess bio-based raw materials. Additionally, we conduct non-animal-based tests for raw materials used in sensitizers or non-sensitizers. These efforts help our customers achieve their sustainability goals and compliance requirements..
Paper Packaging Lab
We provide performance and application testing for paper & board, envelopes & graphic arts, EPIX and coatings markets. Our commitment to operational excellence includes adhesive and coatings optimization through custom equipment solutions. We drive innovation with Coatings and EPIX functional solutions for next-generation packaging and in-house testing capabilities to support circular economy sustainable products.
Sustainability Benefits:
Our approach is to make every package sustainable. Therefore, our adhesives and coating solutions are designed to tackle both current and future challenges in functionality, eCommerce, and sustainability. By replacing EPS foam cups, we enable sustainability by providing an alternative that simplifies recycling and reduces dependency on petrochemicals. We offer solutions to replace non-recyclable substrates like foil and wax coatings with recyclable barrier coatings. Additionally, our EPIX technology enables impact resistance in mailers, positioning them as a sustainable alternative to bubble mailers. These innovations reinforce our commitment to circular economy.
Pressure Sensitive Lab
Pilot coating capabilities for UV acrylic and rubber-based hot melts, as well as solvent- and water-based pressure-sensitive adhesives (PSAs), providing advanced solutions for various industries. Our UV ultra range is tailored for the automotive and building construction sectors. Additionally, we focus on sustainability by offering adhesive solutions for linerless labels, wash-off labels, compostable fruit labels, and UV PSAs.
Sustainability Benefits:
We drive sustainability by developing pressure sensitive adhesives that reduce energy consumption and environmental impact. Our UV-curable hot melt pressure sensitive technology blends the performance of traditional solvent based formulations with the processability, and safety of a hot melt technology. The UV products significantly reduce electricity consumption and VOC emissions, while eliminating hazardous solvent waste. These innovations support more sustainable and efficient production while maintaining high performance standards.
Packaging & Labeling Lab
Our Technical Center testing capabilities and high-quality adhesives ensure reliable adhesive performance, empowering you to excel in end-of-line packaging and labeling applications. Smart Packaging Control gives you real-time insight into adhesive consumption by connecting our experts to your production, ensuring consistency in your packaged goods and suggesting operational fixes to improve efficiency. In addition, our ECO product line offers sustainable solutions that help reduce your carbon footprint, improving both your environmental impact and operational performance.
Sustainability Benefits:
We provide bio-based, low-emission formulations that help reduce carbon footprints. Our solutions promote sustainability by minimizing the use of single-use stretch wraps around pallets through our innovative hotmelts. We also support sustainable packaging by enabling right-size packaging, reducing excess material usage. These approaches contribute to lower environmental impact and improved resource efficiency. Our commitment to sustainable solutions helps our customers achieve their sustainability goals.
Nonwovens Lab
Nonwovens Lab
Featuring a state-of-the-art nonwovens single and dual lamination hygiene coater, the nonwovens production coater enables a wide range of adhesive application technologies to support any nonwoven disposable conversion process. Together with brand owners, we are conducting trials for new adhesive applications using Henkel's TECHNOMELT® portfolio of hot melt adhesives for the nonwoven disposables industry (baby diapers, feminine hygiene, adult incontinence products).
Sustainability Benefits:
Construction elastic and positioning adhesive that are high bio-based content for hygienics applications. Saves production down time by providing on-site trial/testing that mimics production standards. Easyflow® technology that allow customers to run adhesive on-demand, saving energy consumption, reduced carbon footprint and auto feeding system saves human interaction with heat reduction potential injuries.
Flexible Packaging Adhesive & Coating Lab
Flexible Packaging Adhesive & Coating Lab
Packaging is at the heart of food safety and extended shelf-life, with an ever-increasing demand from retailers and consumers for innovative and sustainable packaging. We use our expertise to focus on delivering solutions without compromising on high standards of performance and versatility. Focusing primarily on LOCTITE® adhesives and coatings, the new labs are designed for evaluation, design and testing, full-scale equipment, and state-of-the-art customer training facilities to support the needs of converters and brand owners.
Sustainability Benefits:
We advance sustainability by creating innovative adhesive and coatings that enable circularity and new end of life scenarios for flexible packaging. Some of these solutions facilitate the shift to mono-material structures, making recycling easier and reducing packaging waste.
Furniture & Building Components Lab
Furniture & Building Components Lab
Changes in construction requires innovative approaches to assure happy consumers. From waterborne or hot melt adhesive chemistries to sprayable or roll-on applications, manufacturers require faster dry times, better bonding strength, and increased application ease. This lab features equipment to test engineered wood bonding, furniture, and building component adhesive application testing.
Sustainability Benefits:
Our products enhance sustainability through manufacturing of building components and furniture including: ceiling tiles, roofing, insulation, façade, doors, windows, flooring, desks, and mattresses. We offer waterborne, urethane, and hot melt adhesives with fast drying, strong bonding, and easy application. Our lab tests engineered wood bonding, fire resistance, and adhesive performance for building and furniture components. These solutions improve manufacturing efficiency and support sustainable production.
Analytical Solutions Lab
Analytical Solutions Lab
Visit the Analytical Solutions Lab and benefit from our first-class analytical and rheological capabilities: Chemical Structure Identification, Composition Quantification, Surface and Interface Morphology and Polymer Characterization.
Sustainability Benefits:
We collaborate closely with our partners to meet sustainability needs through advanced testing methods. Our trace analysis ensures food packaging complies with legal standards, while degradability testing supports green labeling. We also use in-house methods and advanced polymer characterization to assess bio-based raw materials. Additionally, we conduct non-animal-based tests for raw materials used in sensitizers or non-sensitizers. These efforts help our customers achieve their sustainability goals and compliance requirements..
Paper Packaging Lab
Paper Packaging Lab
We provide performance and application testing for paper & board, envelopes & graphic arts, EPIX and coatings markets. Our commitment to operational excellence includes adhesive and coatings optimization through custom equipment solutions. We drive innovation with Coatings and EPIX functional solutions for next-generation packaging and in-house testing capabilities to support circular economy sustainable products.
Sustainability Benefits:
Our approach is to make every package sustainable. Therefore, our adhesives and coating solutions are designed to tackle both current and future challenges in functionality, eCommerce, and sustainability. By replacing EPS foam cups, we enable sustainability by providing an alternative that simplifies recycling and reduces dependency on petrochemicals. We offer solutions to replace non-recyclable substrates like foil and wax coatings with recyclable barrier coatings. Additionally, our EPIX technology enables impact resistance in mailers, positioning them as a sustainable alternative to bubble mailers. These innovations reinforce our commitment to circular economy.
Pressure Sensitive Lab
Pressure Sensitive Lab
Pilot coating capabilities for UV acrylic and rubber-based hot melts, as well as solvent- and water-based pressure-sensitive adhesives (PSAs), providing advanced solutions for various industries. Our UV ultra range is tailored for the automotive and building construction sectors. Additionally, we focus on sustainability by offering adhesive solutions for linerless labels, wash-off labels, compostable fruit labels, and UV PSAs.
Sustainability Benefits:
We drive sustainability by developing pressure sensitive adhesives that reduce energy consumption and environmental impact. Our UV-curable hot melt pressure sensitive technology blends the performance of traditional solvent based formulations with the processability, and safety of a hot melt technology. The UV products significantly reduce electricity consumption and VOC emissions, while eliminating hazardous solvent waste. These innovations support more sustainable and efficient production while maintaining high performance standards.
Packaging & Labeling Lab
Packaging & Labeling Lab
Our Technical Center testing capabilities and high-quality adhesives ensure reliable adhesive performance, empowering you to excel in end-of-line packaging and labeling applications. Smart Packaging Control gives you real-time insight into adhesive consumption by connecting our experts to your production, ensuring consistency in your packaged goods and suggesting operational fixes to improve efficiency. In addition, our ECO product line offers sustainable solutions that help reduce your carbon footprint, improving both your environmental impact and operational performance.
Sustainability Benefits:
We provide bio-based, low-emission formulations that help reduce carbon footprints. Our solutions promote sustainability by minimizing the use of single-use stretch wraps around pallets through our innovative hotmelts. We also support sustainable packaging by enabling right-size packaging, reducing excess material usage. These approaches contribute to lower environmental impact and improved resource efficiency. Our commitment to sustainable solutions helps our customers achieve their sustainability goals.
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