Packaging of Adhesives and Sealants

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This issue marks the publication of ASI’s 20th annual Buyers’ Guide, a purchasing and applications resource for raw materials, equipment and services used to manufacture adhesives and sealants, pressure sensitives, and adhesives and sealants products such as tapes and labels.

2013 can only be characterized as the first year in the recent past where all was quiet on the front lines of the adhesives and sealants industry—especially as compared to the significant volatility the industry has been experiencing since the beginning of the 2008 recession.

Although the U.S. considers the 300 and 600 ml sausage packages to be industry standards, many other options are now being used worldwide.

In the printed circuit board (PCB) industry, manufacturers must drive change or they don’t survive.

The manufacturing of counterfeit, imitation products has long been a problem in the consumer goods sector—and is becoming increasingly troublesome in the dental industry.

One of the things I love about my job is being able to see all of the ingenuity and hard work that go into the development of innovative new products and technologies.

This company’s new 6B23 (3 x 3 ml) dual syringe can be used with a variety of low-cost static mixers for meter-mix and dispensing of plural component epoxies, urethanes, or 1:1 ratio compositions.