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Silicone compounds are used to coat, seal, and encapsulate components, protecting electronics under even the most challenging conditions. What is the best choice for your application? 

As with any tool, selecting the right kind of dispenser for any job—big or small—is essential for ensuring a durable finished product that meets safety and quality standards.

Designed for senior-level industry executives, the Adhesive and Sealant Council’s Executive Leadership Conference will take place November 1-3, 2022, at the Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines in La Jolla, California.

The Wulff Research Group at the University of Victoria, together with XlynX Materials, recently introduced a suite of new reagents that can achieve bonding to low-surface-energy materials through a wholly novel mechanism. 

The trends of integration of electronic systems into vehicles and the shift to electric vehicles are creating new opportunities for pressure-sensitive adhesive tapes. 

This edition of ASI features a roundtable discussion with experts from Barentz, Palmer Holland, and Univar Solutions who talk about the challenges companies face in the current economic and geo-political climate.

According to the 2022 Specialty Chemicals Industry Census+, SOCMA members and industry colleagues are placing particular emphasis on supporting their current customers while simultaneously dealing with supply chain disruption and logistics challenges.

A strategic partnership of four technology companies has resulted in a closed-loop recycling model that is sparking new discussions around the role PET-based multilayer will play in tomorrow’s packaging industry.

In times of rapidly increasing energy cost, and rolling blackouts and brownouts, energy input and waste disposal per product unit have become big concerns among manufacturers.

Electric vehicles (EV) and lithium-ion batteries are transforming transportation and energy storage sectors with higher efficiencies, zero emissions, reduced noise pollution, and low operating costs.