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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The 11th annual ASSEMBLY Show will take place from October 24-26, 2023 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois.

Executives in the adhesives and sealants industry will gather at the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, October 23-25 for the Adhesive and Sealant Council’s Executive Leadership Conference.

Toyo-Morton estimates that CO₂ emissions related to inks and laminating adhesives in packaging can be reduced up to 70% by substituting solvent-based products with solvent-free ones.