Henkel India opens acoustic lab in Pune

Henkel Adhesives Technologies India, a fully owned subsidiary of Henkel AG & Co, recently inaugurated an acoustic lab at its Pune Innovation Centre.

This new acoustic lab will enable Henkel India to offer cutting-edge solutions to meet the evolving and challenging requirements of customers in the area of noise, vibration and harshness (NVH). The company, which manufactures adhesives, sealants and functional coatings, launched the acoustics lab on October 5 at the ‘Henkel Innovation Day – Acoustic & Structural’ summit for the automotive and general industry.

The acoustic lab is a world-class facility with an anechoic and a reverberation chamber. It will facilitate vehicle and component level testing for different applications as per international standards. It will also help meet high level product validation tests based on customer requirements.

Henkel’s trained team of engineers analyse acoustic material properties of structures and panels to determine their effectiveness in automotive, off-road equipment and appliance applications. With the latest equipment and software, to perform measurements and analysis, Henkel is able to offer full capabilities including Computer Aided Engineering (CAE), Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and lab testing.

Speaking on the ocassion, Shilip Kumar, country president, Henkel India and Business Director, Transportation & Metal SBU, Henkel IMEA, said, “Both noise and vibration play a crucial role in a vehicle‘s quality. Automotive OEMs have started developing vehicles with competitive NVH performance in shorter design cycles, and at lower development and vehicle costs. At Henkel, we put our customers at the centre of what we do and work closely with them to develop solutions to challenges faced by them. At this acoustic lab we will collaborate with our customers by solving NVH problems.“

Henkel’s Innovation Center in Pune caters to over 800 industrial OEMs. With the new acoustic NVH capabilities, the Center will give a fillip to the existing simulated environment for the automotive, off-road equipment and appliance industry portfolio’s acoustic structures.