Acknowledging India’s fast‑growing electronics ecosystem with Bengaluru as a hub, Henkel moves to unite innovation and manufacturing.
Henkel has launched a Customer Application Centre in Bengaluru to support India’s fast‑growing electronics manufacturing sector. The facility is designed as a collaborative hub where Henkel experts and customers can co‑develop, test and validate adhesive and thermal management solutions for advanced electronics production.
The centre, one of Henkel’s largest application engineering commitments in India, the Middle East and Africa region, as the company says, addresses a gap in India’s electronics value chain by providing local testing and validation infrastructure.
Bengaluru was chosen for its concentration of semiconductor design talent, electronics R&D centres and global OEM engineering teams. The 5000 sq. ft. (approximately 464.51 square metres) facility includes 2400 sq. ft. (about 222.96 square metres) of laboratory and testing space, replicating real manufacturing conditions.
Around 60-65% of investment has been directed to advanced lab equipment, with 20-25% allocated to customer co‑development infrastructure.
The centre will serve five high‑growth sectors: telecom and 5G, data centres and AI, power electronics and EV systems, industrial automation, and medical electronics.
Capabilities include thermal management testing, precision dispensing, electrical characterisation and rapid‑cure chambers, supporting the full cycle from prototyping to production readiness.
The company noted that manufacturers previously reliant on overseas facilities can now qualify and scale materials domestically, reducing costs and development timelines.
At the same time, India’s electronics output has expanded nearly six‑fold in the past decade, driven by growth in data centres, AI computing, 5G networks, electric vehicle (EV) systems, industrial automation and medical devices.
Each of these sectors requires high‑performance adhesives, coatings and thermal management materials, giving way to the need for localised engineering support.
Henkel said the centre aligns with India’s Make in India and production-linked incentive (PLI) objectives by bringing application engineering and reliability validation onshore.
Its experts will work alongside customer teams to tailor solutions to specific device architectures, aiming to accelerate the transition from concept to market.
