| Delo Industrie Klebstoffe GmbH & Co. KGaA | |
| Type: | GmbH & Co. KGaA |
| Foundation: | 1961 |
| Location: | Windach, Germany |
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| Products: | Industrial adhesives, UV curing lamps, microdispensing valves |
| Revenue: | (FY 2021/2022)[1] |
| Num Employees: | 780 (05/2019) |
DELO Industrie Klebstoffe GmbH & Co. KGaA (inherent spelling: DELO; international brand name: DELO Industrial Adhesives) is a leading manufacturer of industrial adhesives and equipment for dispensing as well as curing adhesives. The company has its headquarters in Windach near Munich, Germany, and employs 780 people. It operates worldwide from subsidiaries in the US, China, Singapore and Japan as well as representative offices in South Korea, Taiwan and Malaysia.[2] Customers include Bosch, Huawei, Siemens und Sony.
Founded in 1961, Sabine and Wolf-Dietrich Herold took over DELO in the course of a management buy-out and converted it into an independent, owner-managed company.
Adhesives, potting compounds and optical materials from DELO are mainly used for microelectronic and optical applications in consumer electronics and the automotive industry. The company specializes in UV curing and dual-curing polymers for high-volume industrial production. These products obtain their complete or initial strength under UV light.
Delo is regarded the world market leader in smart card bonding, for example for encapsulating credit card chips.[3] [4] In addition, almost every mobile phone in the world contains DELO adhesives.[5] [6]
DELO also develops and produces microdispensing valves and UV LED lamps for dispensing and curing adhesives, respectively.