Strategic Sectors

Enabling Europe’s strategic industrial sectors

Across Europe’s strategic sectors, adhesives and sealants act as enabling technologies. Their role is to make advanced systems possible by combining materials, supporting durability and enabling efficient manufacturing under demanding conditions.

Why they matter in Europe’s industrial base

Strategic autonomy depends not only on access to technologies, but also on the materials and processes that make them possible. Adhesives and sealants are part of that foundation.

Supporting strategic value chains

Adhesives and sealants are used where other joining methods are not suitable or would damage the materials being used. They are especially important where advanced products rely on multiple materials working together in a compact, lightweight or high-performance design.