Veritas uses Hipex for holding brake lines

Veritas, the manufacturer of innovative system solutions for the automotive market, uses Hipex in combination with a polyamide substrate to produce double clips for fastening brake lines. The clips will be used as a standard component in engine compartments. Hipex was chosen due to its high resistance to heat and media, as well as its thermoplastic processing properties. The TPV – compared to many other TPE materials– is permanently heat-resistant at temperatures up to 150 °C. In addition, the compounds are resistant to oil and grease also at high temperatures.

The double clip for brake lines is manufactured by Veritas via injection moulding. The thermoplastic processing method eliminates the time-consuming vulcanization process, which reduces the cycle times for the component. Adhesion to the hard component (polyamide) is achieved by mechanical anchoring, which eliminates further assembly steps.

“We are convinced that Hipex will become a standard material for use in the engine compartment and transmission”, says Dr. Martin Geissinger, Product Manager at Kraiburg TPE. “Our intensive market activities manifest a positive trend for the oil- and temperature-resistant thermoplastic elastomer Hipex. We are on the right track and we intend to expand the product group of Hipex.”

About Veritas

Originally established in 1849 in Berlin and after several mergers in the late 19^th century, the company has traded under the name Veritas Gummiwerke AG since 1929. It is continental Europe’s oldest rubber processing company. Since 1999 the company name is Veritas AG. With global operations, Veritas AG is an international partner of the automotive industry with leading material competence for custom functional and modular solutions for reducing emissions and therefore supplies numerous automobile manufacturers as a system partner for fuel, oil and charge air lines as well as complex sealing modules. The group headquarters in Gelnhausen has 2,000 employees and a total of 4,400 employees worldwide. Veritas AG has additional locations in Germany – Benshausen / Suhl, Thuringia and Neustadt, Saxony – as well as locations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Mexico, Austria, South Korea, Turkey, Hungary and the USA.