Henkel Launches Acoustic Lab For India's Automotive And General Industry

Henkel is a company which, apart from specializing in laundry, home-care and beauty-care products, also caters to the world of adhesive technologies. The Indian arm of the German company has now unveiled an acoustic lab at its Pune Innovation Center. This new lab, Henkel says, will enable the company to design and offer cutting-edge solutions for the evolving needs of customers in the area of noise, vibration and harshness (NVH).

While the lab is designed to 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. With a state-of-the-art equipment and software setup, Henkel says that the lab is capable of offering Computer Aided Engineering (CAE), Finite Element Analysis (FEA), and other intensive lab tests.

In a press release, Shilip Kumar, country president, Henkel India and business director, Transportation and Metal SBU at 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.”

With the growing competition in every industry, it is the quality and service aspects which sets a company apart from its competition. While dealing with NVH levels is a must in the automotive industry to provide the customer with the best driving or riding experience, the same is equally important in other industries such as off-road equipment and appliances.