Articles Tagged with ''bio-based materials''

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Top 25 ASI Feature Articles of 2020

These are the 25 most-viewed feature articles on the Adhesives & Sealants Industry website for 2020.
December 7, 2020
Our most popular feature articles of the year span a range of topics, including the world’s leading adhesives and sealants manufacturers, adhesives in automotive applications, various ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic, and myriad raw materials innovations.
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Pine-Based Tackifiers Offer Sustainable Packaging Solutions

Bio-based tackifiers allow packaging adhesive formulators to meet their most difficult challenges with minimal impact on the environment.
Olivia Jobes
November 17, 2020

Two of the biggest challenges facing the global adhesives and sealants market today are meeting consumer preferences for sustainable packaging and aligning with the industry’s increasing regulatory demands, especially when it comes to food applications.


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Renewable Alternative: Cashew Nutshell Liquid-Based Isocyanate Blocking Agent

A high-purity cardanol derived from renewable cashew nutshell liquid offers chemical features that can be successfully used in epoxy and polyurethane adhesives and sealants.
James Zhao Yun Mi Kim Pietro Campaner
October 16, 2020

Cashew nutshell liquid (CNSL) is a non-edible, bio-based material commonly used as a building block for various resins, hardeners, and modifiers in the adhesives, coatings, and composites industries. A high-purity cardanol, 3-pentadeca-dienyl-phenol, derived from the bio-oil CNSL has been employed to replace nonyl phenol (NP) in various applications, including isocyanate blocking.


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Put Some Moxie in Your Epoxy: Toughening Epoxy Adhesives with a Polyurethane Prepolymer

The addition of a low-viscosity, blocked polyurethane prepolymer improves the strength and reduces the cure time of epoxy adhesives.
Jay Johnston Covestro
Jay A. Johnston
Cassie Popovski
Cassie Popovski
October 5, 2020

Adhesives play an important role in creating sustainable and resilient infrastructure. While the hybridization of adhesives is not a novel concept, recent innovations in raw materials have unlocked new possibilities for toughened epoxy systems.


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From the Editor

Making it Easy to Be Green in the Adhesives and Sealants Industry

Our annual sustainability issue details products and technologies that make it easier for adhesives and sealants to be green.
Susan Sutton
Susan Sutton
September 18, 2020
When Kermit the Frog (voiced by Jim Henson) first sang “Bein’ Green” in 1970, few consumers were concerned about climate change. Most manufacturers didn’t focus on sustainability or tout their products’ “green” qualities (if they happened to have any). Oh, how times have changed.
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New Program Embeds Sustainability in 3M Product Commercialization Process

Historically, about one-third of 3M’s annual sales come from products created in the past five years, so the impact is expected to expand greatly with each successive year.
September 16, 2020
3M recently announced that each 3M product entering the new product commercialization process will include a Sustainability Value Commitment that demonstrates how it drives impact for the greater good.
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Pine Chemicals Benefit from Uptake of Bio-Based Materials

The coatings and adhesives sub-segment accounts for the largest share of the global pine chemicals market, at over 30%.
September 15, 2020

The global pine chemicals market is estimated to grow with a CAGR of over 5% from 2019-2027 to reach a value of over $19 billion.


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