Speaking on the ocassion, Shilip Kumar, Country President, Henkel India and Business Director, Transportation & Metal SBU, Henkel IMEA said, "Both noise and vibration play a crucial role in a vehicle‘s quality. 

Automotive OEMs have started developing vehicles with competitive NVH performance in shorter design cycles, and at lower development and vehicle costs. At Henkel, we put our customers at the centre of what we do and work closely with them to develop solutions to challenges faced by them. At this acoustic lab we will collaborate with our customers by solving NVH problems."

The new acoustic lab is situated at Henkel's Innovation Center in Pune, India's automotive and industrial hub. Established in 2013, the Pune Innovation Center has helped improve customers' processes through innovations, made them more efficient and enabled cost savings.

The Center caters to over 800 industrial OEMs. With the new acoustic NVH capabilities, the Center will provide a boost to the existing simulated environment for the automotive, off-road equipment and appliance industry portfolio's acoustic structures.

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