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Pressure sensitive adhesives (PSAs) have become a valuable part of various industrial processes due, in part, to their versatility.

This expansion of Henkel’s existing site brings a new 10,000-square-foot production area for UV-curable acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesives (PSA), helping the company provide more sustainable and innovative PSA solutions to the tape, label, medical, and graphics films markets.

Apart from having a bio-based content of more than 30%, Jowatherm GROW 853.20 is very resource friendly and can be processed at temperatures starting from 120 °C.

The Freedonia Group has released Global Adhesives & Sealants, a report detailing the market’s increasing focus on sustainability, the strong potential in the Asia/Pacific region, and the opportunities in the water-based, reactive, and hot melt segments.

The Portuguese company Colquímica Adhesives, provider of hot-melt adhesives for industrial applications, recently inaugurated a new facility in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The Reynolds Co., a Greenville, South Carolina-based subsidiary of Itochu International Inc, announced the retirement of Neel Reynolds, CEO, effective October 1, 2022–and it has announced his replacement.

“In addition to shortening cycle times for our customers, this acquisition offers a significant growth opportunity for us in North America,” said Mike Frost, EUKALIN’s North American sales leader for the envelope and traditional EUKALIN market segments.

Adhesives will play a defining role in the future of packaging development, with the post-COVID marketplace providing a spur to sustainable technology. In 2021, the packaging industry is estimated to have consumed 5.40 million metric tons of adhesives. A forecast CAGR of 3.4% will push global consumption of packaging adhesives to 7.90 million metric tons in 2027.

Conagen recently announced the development of debondable hot-melt adhesives made with high-performance materials from sustainable and natural biomolecules. 

The pandemic drove increased demand for packaging and created significant stresses on the packaging value chain, but it didn’t reduce the focus on sustainability. The industry has had to meet the various challenges of the pandemic while continuing to make progress toward a circular packaging economy.