Automotive tapes for steering wheel components
Modern steering wheels are no longer simple structural parts, they are multifunctional systems that integrate comfort, safety, sensing, and user interaction. As vehicle lifetimes increase and electronic content grows, adhesive solutions play a critical role in ensuring durability, precision, and consistent bonding across every functional layer. Avery Dennison delivers high-performance pressure-sensitive tapes that meet OEM specifications and support the evolving requirements of today’s steering wheel designs.
Adhesive tape technologies engineered for long-term steering wheel performance
Vehicles today are driven longer, used more intensively, and expected to perform reliably across wider ranges of operating conditions. Ride sharing, extended platform lifetimes, and the growth of the used vehicle market all increase the demands on materials, including the adhesives used in key safety and comfort systems. Steering wheels are now central to multiple safety-critical functions, from Hands-Off Detection (HOD) and heating elements to integrated controls and capacitive sensing. As these features expand, adhesive tapes help OEMs reduce weight, improve production efficiency, and simplify assembly without compromising long-term performance. Our solutions are engineered to deliver reliable bonding across the steering wheel’s full lifetime, even under changing temperatures, humidity, and mechanical stress.
Performance adhesive tapes for complex steering wheel layering
Today’s steering wheels are built from multiple functional layers. Each requires a bonding solution that supports performance, comfort, and durability.
Outer covering:
- Materials: synthetic leather, natural leather, textiles, polymer or rubber covers, wood
- Function: driver comfort, tactility, aesthetics
- Bonding need: secure adhesion without impacting softness or conformability
Padding foam:
- Materials: PU foam, PE foam, EPDM foam
- Function: cushioning and impact absorption
- Bonding need: strong adhesion to paddingfoams and functional layers with no cure time
Additional functional layers
- HOD (Hands-Off Detection) wraps
- Heating elements
- Wiring and connectors
- Integrated controls
- Airbag interface components
Why pressure-sensitive adhesive tapes for steering wheel assembly?
Our high-performance PSA tapes provide a series of manufacturing and performance advantages compared to wet adhesives and mechanical fastening methods. Properties and benefits of adhesive tapes for steering wheel assembly:
Secure component bonding with no heat or cure time
Reduced assembly time and improved manufacturing flexibility
Compatible with conductive inks, heating foils, and advanced sensing layers
No loss of conformability, ensuring grip comfort is maintained
Stable performance across temperature extremes and handling stresses
Proven in production, approved by leading steering wheel manufacturers
These benefits help OEMs and Tier suppliers meet expectations for comfort, durability, and advanced driver assistance systems while supporting efficient, scalable production processes.
Featured products
FT 107 SA
A permanent synthetic rubber adhesive transfer tape used to bond on a wide variety of substrates. It provides excellent adhesion to low surface energy materials such as PP, PE, TPO, ABS, PVC, polystyrene and a variety of metals. FT 107 SA has a glassine natural liner with recycled content, reducing the ecological footprint, contributing to CO2 reduction.
- 15% Post Consumer Recycled Content
- Remaining virgin fibres are unbleached
- No dyes added, providing a natural color
- Less chemicals in production & recycling
- 88 gsm natural glassine liner
- Flexible adhesive film
- Specially designed adhesive
- Uniform adhesive thickness
FT 107
A versatile high-performance adhesive tape ideal for steering wheel assembly processes that require strong initial adhesion and reliable bonding to foam, leather, and textile materials.
- Excellent initial tack
- Strong bonding to foams and synthetic coverings
- Proven performance in automotive interior environments
- Easy release, glassine, natural release liner with recycled content
- Flexible adhesive film
- Specially designed adhesive with uniform adhesive thickness
FT 2150 SA
A transparent acrylic tape with low VOC properties, good adhesion on PU foams and high resistance to UV, moisture and temperature. Ideal for automotive interior applications or applications requiring low emissions. FT 2150 SA has a glassine natural liner with recycled content, reducing the ecological footprint, contributing to CO2 reduction.
- 15% PCR fibres “Post Consumer Recycled Content”
- Remaining virgin fibres are unbleached
- No dyes added, providing a natural color
- Less chemicals in production & recycling
- 88 gsm natural glassine liner
- Easy release, glassine, natural release liner with recycled content:
- UV cured pure acrylic adhesive
FT 2150
A durable and flexible adhesive solution for multi-layer steering wheel constructions, especially where comfort materials and functional layers must remain securely bonded.
- High adhesion to PU foams
- Flexible and conformable for curved geometries
- Stable performance under temperature cycling
- UV cured pure acrylic adhesive
- Low VOC / fogging adhesive
- Havana easy release line
FT 21522
Sustainable high-repulsion adhesive tape with competitive performance for transfer tape applications.
- High initial tack adhesive
- High adhesion level to PU -, EPDM - and PE foams
- Easy release glassine natural release liner with recycled content
- Broad range of service temperatures
- Ideal for applications where repulsion resistance is essential for curved or convex surfaces
HPA 2922
Avery DennisonTM HPA 2922 has got a shite polyethylene protected paper and a modified acrylic adhesive.
- Ensures an immediate initial adhesion on wide range substrates, especially plastics
- Outstanding resistance to solvents, chemicals, plasticizers, moisture, temperature and
- UVlight
- High temperature holding power
- Excellent adhesion on wide range of substrates, including LSE surfaces
- Facilitates easy removal at point of application
- Combines a high degree of moisture stability with excellent die-cutting properties
FT 0927
A single coated reinforced non woven tape with a rubber based adhesive. Product is typically used as a wiring harness fixation tape or as a cover tape in electrical connections. Other general industrial uses considered are joining and sealing applications.
- Differential adhesive system with low VOC pure acrylic adhesive (LS) and high-tack rubber-based adhesive (MS)
- Conformable polyester-based TPU carrier
- Easy release glassine paper liner
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Avery Dennison partners with OEMs and Tier suppliers to support the development of advanced steering wheel systems that integrate comfort, safety, and electronic functionality. Our adhesive tape solutions are engineered to deliver reliable bonding and consistent performance under demanding use conditions, supporting durability and production efficiency.
As part of our Automotive Electronics portfolio, Avery Dennison also supports Seat Heating and Wire Harness applications, helping enable dependable bonding and long-term performance across connected in-vehicle systems.
