Articles Tagged with ''bio-based materials''

For decades, the pine chemicals industry has used biorenewable feedstocks from both forests and factories to produce materials used by a variety of industries, including adhesives and sealants.

Each adhesive and sealant product must start with the right materials if it has any hope of success. But what’s happening in this often tumultuous sector?

We’re celebrating materials in this issue with our annual Raw Materials, Chemicals, Polymers and Additives Handbook, which includes definition/use information for key products, as well as supplier details.

Officials at a Chicago-based startup say innovations discovered in Purdue University’s School of Nuclear Engineering are being commercialized to address challenges in improving radiation detection and making sealants and adhesives safer.

Traditional polyurethane reactive hot-melt (RHM) adhesives make use of blends of polyester, polyether and, in rare cases, conventional petroleum-based polycarbonate polyols.