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Handle with Care: Personnel Protection in the Adhesives and Sealants Industry

The personal protective equipment industry is staying ahead of worker safety and comfort with innovative new tools.

July 1, 2015

Compliance in a chemical environment not only requires selecting the right personal protective equipment (PPE) for a variety of chemicals, but also must ensure that workers wear the equipment.

Silane and Catalyst Effects on Silylated Polymer Elastomers

The choice of crosslinking silanes and curing catalysts has a significant impact on the properties of silyl polymer-based formulations.

Christopher Ross

July 1, 2015

Silane-modified organic polymers have been around for more than 40 years, and have proliferated in the coatings, adhesives, sealants and elastomers (CASE) industry over the past 20 years.

How Can Structural Adhesives Help Automakers Tackle a Weighty Issue?

A materials supplier explores how structural adhesives can help automakers to achieve their lightweighting goals.

Danielle Hunter

July 1, 2015

Automakers' search for lighter materials and more fuel-efficient vehicles is a well-covered topic. But there are more layers to the story than the headlines suggest.

Novel Amorphous Polyolefins for Adhesive Applications

A new technology has been developed to produce innovative olefin polymers with a broad robust operating window for hot-melt adhesives applications.

P. Rajesh Raja, Ph.D.

July 1, 2015

Polyolefin polymers have been an important part of daily life for variety of applications since the reported lab-scale process by Carothers in the 1930s1 and commercial process introduction by ICI in the 1940s.

Nordson ASYMTEK Receives Innovation Award

June 3, 2015

Nordson ASYMTEK, a Nordson company, recently announced it received two awards for innovative technology during NEPCON China 2015.

Dow Opens Packaging Innovation Center in Italy

May 5, 2015

The Dow Chemical Co. recently announced the introduction of a new Pack Studios innovation center in Mozzate, Italy.

Heraeus Noblelight Receives Innovation Award

April 27, 2015

Heraeus Noblelight received the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category for its development of an automated manufacturing process for flash lamps.

AkzoNobel Announces 4D Approach to Increasing Business

April 3, 2015

AkzoNobel recently announced it is exploring new ways of increasing business value by piloting a four-dimensional approach.

Using Rheology to Formulate Sealants

The insights gained from rheology can significantly accelerate sealant development and drive product differentiation.

C. Street G. Frazee C. Fredrickson I. Harvey T.H. Killilea

April 1, 2015

Through quantitative measurements of sealant structure and flow behavior, rheology helps formulators understand the relationship between formulation components and their impact on application properties.

Case Study

Adhesives at Work: Filters Reduce False Sealant Failures

Filtering can substantially reduce manual sealant inspection time, thus speeding up the automotive production line.

April 1, 2015

An automotive supplier uses a machine vision system to inspect up to 900 parts per min to substantially improve quality and productivity. The system checks for the presence and uniformity of a bead of sealant applied to the interior of a metal canister (see Figure 1).