Henkel Showcased Adhesive Solutions for Furniture and Building Components at Interzum 2024

GUANGZHOU, China – Henkel showcased adhesive solutions for furniture and building components with the theme of "Perfect Bonding, Embrace the New Living" at Interzum 2024 in Guangzhou during March 28-31. Interzum is a major annual event known as the weathervane in the industry of furniture and building components. Focusing on adhesives for edge banding, Henkel also showcased comprehensive solutions for flat lamination, coating and other purposes. During the event, Henkel also brought together industry partners including furniture manufacturers and influencers for a forum on how to build better furniture and better homes using high quality adhesives and the ultimate edge banding solutions.

Better adhesives for better homes

The requirements of consumers for home furnishing products have been changing in recent years. Apart from pursuing higher durability and better appearance, people are increasingly demanding about comfort, safety, and customization flexibility, and they have ushered in an era of quality furnishing. The changing requirements of end-users have led to a transformation towards higher quality across the value chain of the furniture and building components industry, and today furniture brands and manufacturers hold higher expectations for production materials and processes. As a leading supplier of adhesives for furniture and building components, Henkel has innovatively upgraded its portfolio to enable furniture manufacturers to improve quality, increase efficiency and build better furniture for better homes.

Brainstorming for better homes

Although edge banding is just a small part of the entire furniture manufacturing process, and the cost of the adhesives for edge banding accounts for only a little of the total cost, the quality of edge banding has a very big impact on the quality of the furniture produced. Edge banding looks trivial, but its marginal effect is significant. As the leader of adhesives for edge banding, Henkel put together a forum during this year’s Interzum. The founder of China’s leading furniture manufacturer Vision and Mr. Feng Su, an home furnishing influencer, were invited to the forum to discuss with Henkel expert on the new standards and new technologies for edge banding.

As an industry veteran and influencer, Mr. Feng stated that home furnishing should demonstrate the aesthetic value through color codes, styles and ambience while selecting the right panels, metals and adhesives and adopting the right manufacturing processes. From the perspective of end-users, Mr. Feng, along with Mr. Wang Jian, CEO of the Vision Group, and Mr. Zhang Nan, Senior Manager, Henkel ACB APAC PD, held discussions on topics such as the common issues with edge banding for panels, the quality standards for edge banding adhesives, and the common requirements for panel furniture. Their discussions extended to other stakeholders such as material suppliers and manufacturers, to see how they could help give people peace of mind when it comes to furnishing.

On behalf of Henkel, the forum’s initiator, Mr. Zhang was proud to elaborate how Henkel has been striving for high quality development of edge banding: “As the leader of home furnishing adhesives, Henkel draws on PUR products used in high-end manufacturing such as automotive electronics in Germany and applies them for woodworking, specifically for edge banding, through local innovation here in China. We are also working hard to promote the application of our PUR products in the woodworking industry. These products do not contain any VOC or formaldehyde as a solvent, are odorless, and provide better performances. In this way can we improve furniture’s quality and durability, and also strive for a safer and more sustainable path to the future.”