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The Impact Adhesives Can Have on PE Film and PET Packaging Recycling Streams and How to Address It

Properly designed cold-seal and wash-off adhesives improve packaging recyclability levels and reduce stream contamination.
November 10, 2023

Read about the key elements in recycling stream effectiveness and how those elements can make more recyclable packaging.


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Sustainable Material Pretreatment and Activation Solutions for Adhesives and Sealants

Plasma technology offers environmentally responsible surface pretreatment while reducing VOC and CO2 emissions.
Mary Battiste
November 9, 2023

With the development of plasma technology, surfaces can be pretreated in an environmentally responsible manner, without VOCs or CO2 emissions.


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Renewable Additives for Sustainable Adhesives

Adhesive formulators can replace existing additives with chemically-identical versions that offer increased levels of renewable organic carbon, no labeling changes, and no compromise in performance or composition.
Catherine Vitale
November 9, 2023

Choosing additives and other materials with renewable content is one simple approach to enhancing sustainability of your formulations.


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Formulating with Flexibility

Finding solutions to meet ever-evolving demands encourages flexibility and collaboration with suppliers, formulators and customers.
Edwin Hortelano Ph.D.
October 30, 2023

More than any single piece of lab equipment, a successful R&D team’s most vital tool is a flexibility mindset.


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Adhesive Solutions for e-Mobility Applications

Adhesive tape offers a variety of solutions in the design and manufacturing of electric vehicles, including insulation, mounting and bonding, and thermal interfaces.
Daniel Heini
October 27, 2023

As demand for electric vehicles (EVs) grows, adhesive tapes continue to play an important role in the engineering and manufacturing of EVs.


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New Acrylic Block Elastomer for Adhesive Applications

Developed using proprietary living anionic polymerization technology, a new acrylic thermoplastic elastomer is suitable as an adhesive for masking tape, packaging, surface protection film, double-sided tape, and as an anti-slip film.
Erich Klein
October 25, 2023

A new acrylic TPE is suitable as an adhesive for masking tape, packaging, surface protection film, double-sided tape, as an anti-slip film, and it has a wide range of applications beyond adhesives.


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AI Algorithm Is Accelerating Polymer Research

A new tool developed by scientists at Georgia Tech captures patterns and relationships and learns the grammar and syntax that occur at the atomic and higher levels in polymer structures.
October 24, 2023

PolyBERT treats chemical structures and connectivity of atoms as a form of chemical language and uses techniques inspired by natural language processing to extract the most meaningful information from chemical structures.


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Influence of Rheology on Mixing Behavior in Static Mixers

The second of a series on static mixing, this article focuses on how the rheology of a material impacts mixing behavior.
Joachim Schöck
October 20, 2023

When selecting the optimum static mixer, the rheological properties of the starting components and their mixing ratio play an important role.


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Adhesive and Sealant Technologies for Masking Tapes Solve the Painting Industry’s Peskiest Problems

As new paint technology comes on the market, manufacturers of painter’s tapes are developing more targeted adhesives and sealants that create clean lines while solving issues associated with masking rough or difficult-to-stick-to surfaces.
Patti LaPorte
October 16, 2023

With options like exterior painter’s tape that works on self-cleaning paint and sealant technology that works with paint chemistry to prevent paint bleed, painters now have more specialized tape options to produce professional results under virtually any condition.


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Reactive Polyamide Oligomers for Elastomeric, Adhesive, and Coating Applications

Improvements made to the processability of polyamide oligomers resulted in the discovery of a novel soft segment chemistry that is viable not just for waterborne coating application but for elastomers, adhesives, and possibly other urethane applications
Gabor Erdodi Alec Krienen Chandra Pandey Romina Marin
October 13, 2023

Polyurethanes with tertiary polyamide segments have excellent abrasion resistance coupled with high hardness, good hydrolytic stability, improved barrier properties and strong adhesion to various polar substrates.


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