Tesa Sugru began with a simple observation: most things do not need a screw, a nail or a weld to stay where they belong. They need the right adhesive, applied the right way. That idea now runs through everything we make, from a strip that carries a shelf on a bathroom tile to a tape that survives inside an electric vehicle battery pack.
Our teams work in two worlds at once. On one side are industry partners, converters and craftspeople who need a bond with a defined shear strength, a defined temperature window and a defined way of coming apart again at end of life. On the other side are people at home who want a towel rail on the wall this afternoon and no holes in the tiles afterwards. The same laboratory work serves both.
What holds it together is a long view. Adhesive chemistry rewards patience: a formulation that leaves no residue after five years on a painted wall, or that lets a display be separated cleanly for recycling, is the product of many iterations. That is where our development effort goes, and it is why sustainability at Tesa Sugru is a materials question before it is a marketing one.
The company is organised around that work rather than around a single flagship product. Research sits close to production, production sits close to the customers it supplies, and the people who specify a tape for a car door are in the same building as the people who decide how the consumer pack is printed. It is an unglamorous structure, but it shortens the distance between a question and an answer.
If you want to know how we translate all of this into targets and measurable progress, the sustainability section sets out where we are and what is still open. If you would rather see the work itself, the press and insights feed is the better starting point.
