40 Creating Added Value at ALTANA
“PICKING UP SPEED SUSTAINABLY”
ELANTAS has more than 100 years of experience and is already one of the
leading suppliers of insulation technology in the young e-mobility
market. The company’s high-performance solutions for motors and power
electronics in electric cars offer the necessary added value.
Creating added value through innovative 360-degree solutions
with this core competence ELANTAS has become one of the
world’s leading insulating materials specialists for the electrical
and electronics industry. Its innovative insulating technologies
have long been standard in sustainable energy solutions such as
wind energy, which began its triumphant advance in the early
1990s. “Now with e-mobility we are experiencing the next revolution,”
says Dr. Christian Przybyla, Chief Technology Officer
(CTO) of ELANTAS. “It’s incredibly fascinating to be part of the
transition, which has only just begun and which will have lasting
significance.”
High Solution Competence
ELANTAS can contribute to electromobility with four applications.
In addition to temperature- and corona-resistant materials for in-
sulating copper wires for motor constructions, and impregnating
resins to strengthen the entire engine, its coating and casting
materials can be used to protect electronic components of electric
E-mobility is the next revolution – and ELANTAS
is at the very forefront. The e-mobility team
in Hamburg at a meeting and platinum coating
testing in the lab.