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FOCUS ON: Award-Winning Global Brands

October 1, 2011

More than 270 participants from 43 countries created works that showcased their creative skills and vision.

FOCUS ON: Focused On Solutions

September 1, 2011

Through innovation and the development of partnerships with market leaders, IPG is able to provide specialized solutions to a variety of market segments.

Methyl Methacrylate Adhesives for Architectural PVC

Jim Yeames

September 1, 2011

PVC is a new mainstream material for residential and commercial building.

Polyesters for Sustainable Adhesive Technologies

Gozde Ozturk Timothy Long Musan Zhang

September 1, 2011

Editor’s note: This paper was awarded the Pressure Sensitive Tape Council’s 2011 Carl A. Dahlquist Award for Best Technical Paper. Figure 1. Synthesis of DMCD-DEG Polymer Using Melt Transesterification Techniques

Acrylic Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives

Novel, all-acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive compositions with inherently lower surface energy display significantly improved adhesion to LSE substrates such as polyethylene and polypropylene.

Eric Bartholomew

September 1, 2011

The prevailing trend toward the use of lighter weight and lower cost engineered plastics in automotive, construction, aerospace, electronics, and other industrial uses has created a need for pressure-sensitive materials that can bond well to these new, inherently low-surface-energy (LSE) plastics. This article discusses novel, all-acrylic compositions with inherently lower surface energy that display significantly improved adhesion to LSE substrates such as polyethylene and polypropylene.