A cornerstone of one adhesives company's ongoing developments is the innovative bonding and sealing technology known as Silyl Modified Polymers (SMP). Advanced SMP polymer sealants and adhesives are solvent- and isocyanate-free products specially engineered for adhesion on a wide range of substrate materials used to fabricate and repair truck trailers and containers, buses, recreational vehicles (RVs), train cars, and light-rail vehicles.
Research chemists investigated three UV-curable PSA formulations, making four modifications to each PSA to vary performance. These experiments were designed to help formulators determine which additives will help them achieve the specific physical characteristics needed in their UV-curable PSAs.
What better way to start the year of our tenth anniversary of publishing ASI magazine than to recap the accomplishments of the adhesives and sealants industry over the past decade? To do this, we tapped into the expertise of our editorial advisory board and others who volunteered to participate.
There has been a growing concern that the pressure sensitive adhesives (PSAs) currently used in many products cause the "stickies" problem in the paper-recycling process.
A wide range of temperature-indicating labels and monitoring devices from Dry Pak Industries, Los Angeles, provide quick visual assurance that quality control (QC) standards have been monitored.
Fluid Research Corp., Tustin, Calif., has supplied Delphi Delco Electronic Systems, Kokomo, Ind., a worldwide supplier of automotive components, with a new dispensing system to precisely meter, mix and dispense a urethane potting compound to help protect airbag-controller/circuit-board modules.
A routine adhesive-dispensing process recently presented Seekonk Manufacturing Co., Seekonk, Mass., with one of the bigger challenges in its 60-year history.
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