Electrification

Custom Components for EV Manufacturing

Powering the Future of Electric Vehicles

With nearly a century of innovative solutions, expertise, and collaboration, STANLEY® Engineered Fastening is a trusted partner to the world's leading automotive manufacturers and industry suppliers, driving the auto industry toward an electric future. We help our customers design and specify vehicles, beginning with their unique application requirements.

Our Application Engineers closely collaborate with customer design and engineering teams, offering expert advice on fasteners, components and assembly solutions. STANLEY Engineered Fastening is a comprehensive solutions provider that can help you take your electrification project from design to production — with solutions and innovations at each step along the way. With a wide-ranging portfolio of brands and products, we can help reduce manufacturing complexities and provide streamlined, custom single-supplier solutions.
We also offer quick access to the tools, information, and engineering expertise our customers need to succeed in the EV market.

Electrification & Energy Innovations

Rapid, clean, repeatable & safe assembly technologies are the need of the hour with the growth of electrification. SEF offers a comprehensive range of joining solutions and innovations to fulfill the needs of the electrification market.

Passenger Vehicles

Our comprehensive portfolio of fastening options serves the needs of the automotive industry. From mechanical joining solutions for Chassis-BIW to innovative stud welding solutions for mounting, we cater to structural, grounding, attachment and other fastening requirements.

Commercial Vehicles

SEF provides a comprehensive range of fastening solutions that improve performance, quality and reliability. Our Industrial group also works with global tier suppliers to address critical fastening needs at a sub-system level.

Electric Bikes

SEF supplies a complete range of plastic products for some of the world’s largest two-wheeler manufacturers and is a recognized provider of functional plastic components for electric and ICE scooters, serving both regional and global OEMs.

Energy Storage

SEF offers solutions for solar and renewable energy storage requirements. From battery module assembly to solar panel fixation, we offer critical fastening solutions and installation equipment for quick, reliable and safe assembly.

Full-Service EV Manufacturing Solutions

Our end-to-end services include design consultations, prototyping, performance testing, on-site assembly assessments, and fastener training seminars. These offerings help our global partners accelerate market entry while ensuring reliable outcomes.

Battery Thermal and Pressure Management

Stanley Engineered Fastening offers solutions to prevent thermal propagation and manage pressure in EV batteries. Our technologies ensure effective emergency and standard state ventilation, maintaining optimal temperatures (25°C to 35°C) to prevent overheating. We also address internal pressure management to mitigate risks from temperature spikes and battery expansion. Together, these solutions enhance battery safety, reliability, and performance, reducing the risk of thermal runaway.

Electric Vehicle Assembly and Joining

We develop advanced fastening and joining solutions tailored to the unique challenges of EV manufacturing. Our expertise in multi-material fastening and joining for automotive castings—including small, medium and megacastings—ensures safer, lighter, and more reliable EV assemblies. Understanding the complexities of lightweight materials, complex designs, and evolving standards, we offer custom solutions from self-pierce riveting to no-hole fastening. This helps manufacturers overcome design challenges and achieve high-performance EV assemblies.

EV High Voltage & Grounding Solutions

Managing high electrical currents and heat in EVs is critical for safety and performance. We adapt our fasteners to meet these high-voltage demands, ensuring stability in safety-critical applications like battery venting and components that withstand high temperatures. Our solutions also address material expansion and noise reduction, preventing squeaks in quiet EV environments. For modern megacastings in EV drivetrains, our no-hole stud welding system supports leak-free battery enclosures and easy servicing, enhancing reliability and safety in high-voltage applications.

EV Battery Components and Safety

We provide a wide range of advanced fastening solutions for EV battery assembly, focusing on secure, efficient, and safe integration of critical components. Our offerings include easy-install fasteners for battery covers and innovative coolant and cable routing clips that minimize noise and vibration while maintaining thermal stability. Additionally, our terminal protectors and sealing rivets are designed for maximum durability, ensuring robust and long-lasting EV battery systems..

Featured Products

We provide customized solutions to automotive manufacturers, enabling the production of safer, lighter and more eco-friendly vehicles. As a trusted auto industry veteran, SEF is delivering precision-engineered components that will help to accelerate your ability to drive innovation in electric mobility solutions.

Thermal Barrier & Swelling Compensator

Available in pouch, prismatic or cylindrical configurations, our thermal fin delivers passive thermal propagation protection with optimized performance.

Vent Plug

Lightweight, versatile and provides dependable pressure regulation.

Battery Separator Plate

These ultra-thin separators with their exceptional dimensional stability, tolerance and flame retardancy, help to ensure cooling and electrical isolation of Li-Ion cells.

High Voltage Terminal

The customized design of these integrated plastic components with metal inserts helps to reduce complexity and optimized functionality, enabling grounding connections you can rely on.

Coolant & Cable Routing

These high strength, heat resistant cable tie solutions ensure high and low voltage harnesses are properly secured in electric vehicles.

End Plates

Highly engineered for Li-Ion battery modules with up to 50% filler content for strength, dimensional stability and flame retardancy.

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Why STANLEY Engineered Fastening?

We put our customers’ business at the center of ours – delivering value through assembly solutions and programs that make it possible for manufacturers to efficiently produce high-quality electric vehicles.

Battery Challenge Solutions The SEF portfolio of fastener and assembly solutions are made to overcome common obstacles within the EV battery market. Our high-quality battery system components minimize part complexity and enhance safety, while also reducing vibration, ensuring proper seals and simplifying the assembly process.

Single Supplier Sourcing We streamline your supply chain by providing a comprehensive range of fastening and joining solutions under one roof. Our approach simplifies procurement and ensures consistency across all your sourcing needs. We provide customized solutions that help global manufacturers achieve efficient production.

Full Design and Development Engage with our team of highly creative, multi-disciplined engineers. Together with you, they will take a systematic, end-to-end approach to developing customized fastening and assembly solutions. Our engineering services are available to support your manufacturing needs and maximize assembly productivity.

Li-Ion Cell Top Cover

Li Ion cells are a complex assembly of Top cover plate, engineered plastic isolators, vents, inner & outer terminals. As a multi-technology solutions provider we can manufacture and precisely assemble components for a Li Ion cell to create one integrated assembly.

Battery Box Assembly

Our no-hole technology for fastening provides the necessary strength the battery tray structure requires without weakening the assembly or creating paths for moisture ingress. We can provide solutions for highly automated assembly of mixed materials to fulfill most application needs.

Tucker^® Stud Welding Systems

Tucker is the industry leader in automated solutions for no-hole fastening systems. This automation technology includes flexible weld tools for great coverage of stud types, offers a UPA - based platform with graphical process control and provides a data-based performance analysis.

Tucker^® Self-Pierce Riveting (SPR) Systems

The SPR mechanical joining process is used to join two or more layers of material without the need for a predrilled hole. The global technology leader in mixed-material joining, with over 1.7 billion SPR rivets sold. UPA-based platform connects all systems across your networkUse this image for ‘Engineered Assemblies’

Automation Systems

Electrification

Smart Factory Solutions

Automation Systems

Electrification

Smart Factory Solutions

Powering the Future of Electric Vehicles

Electrification & Energy Innovations

Passenger Vehicles

Commercial Vehicles

Electric Bikes

Energy Storage

Full-Service EV Manufacturing Solutions