As a supplier, imagine knowing that almost any material was bondable. How much more productive would your work be if you could focus on such factors as environmental resistance, structural strength or cure speed? Imagine not needing to reformulate when your customer changes material specifications or vendors. How much more efficient would you be if you were not fielding calls about random “failures”? What if the substrates and surfaces you bond are as controlled as fit tolerances? Tools exist to make most of these things possible.
Parts cleaning offers many benefits; for the purpose of this discussion, let’s focus on hard-to-bond surfaces, where cleanliness is critical for all high-performance applications. Chemical options such as primers and etchants exist, but we will limit ourselves to “dry” processes.