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Increasing Packaging Speeds

October 1, 2011

Flexible packaging companies are increasingly feeling the pressure to reduce costs in order to remain competitive.

MACtac Supplies Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive Label for USPS Wedding Stamp

October 1, 2011

Copyright 2011 USPS. Used with permission. All rights reserved. To a future bride and groom, every wedding planning detail is important, including the stamps on announcements, RSVP envelopes, thank-you notes

FOCUS ON: LORD Provides High-Performance Coating to Petrobras

October 1, 2011

HPC-5C can protect offshore platforms’ rubber parts from ozone attack.

FOCUS ON: Major Milestone

October 1, 2011

Kraton Performance Polymers manufacturing plant celebrates 50 years of innovation.

CASE STUDY: Taking Shape

October 1, 2011

A new architectural hotel façade designed in gel-coated fiberglass takes shape with Crystic Crestomer structural adhesives.

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

James Apap Bologna Cindy Stoner

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.