Adhesives Essentials: Strategies to Help Tape and Label Manufacturers Extend Block Copolymer Usage
The first entry in our Adhesives Essentials series of articles designed to address the fundamentals of adhesive and sealant formulation.
This article offers several formulation strategies to help tape and label manufacturers mitigate the current isoprene shortage. These strategies will allow PSA manufacturers to continue production of high-quality PSA tapes while reducing isoprene content by as much as 50%. In addition, these approaches produce a quality end product and also create significant production efficiencies, minimize labor requirements, and reduce costs.