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Themed “Thinking Ahead, Bonding Together,” the Pressure Sensitive Tape Council’s (PSTC’s) second annual Tape Week delivered innovative solutions to challenges facing the industry.

Innovation, growth, and success seem to go hand in hand; the most innovative clients have the highest levels of growth, profitability, employee engagement, and success.

Selecting the right type of adhesive can help ensure the successful operation of the component or device while maximizing yields and throughput.

Digital strategy and all of its semantic offshoots should serve as implementation tools for your overall corporate strategy, but it can be difficult to know where to start when developing such a strategy.

The emerging trend towards the use of more wood in construction is one way the industry is responding to demands from consumers for more sustainable building practices, and adhesives are key to that trend.

Using the mass balance approach, H.B. Fuller and Covestro teamed up to produce a new adhesive product that allows customers in the woodworking, composites, textile, and automotive sectors to reduce the carbon footprint of their own products, cutting fossil resource use.

When considering potting of electronic assemblies and components, the design of these products has a significant impact on economical and sustainable production.

With several factors to consider, selecting the correct pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) tape for an application can be a daunting and complex. Here are a few questions to consider when beginning the decision-making process.

Edge sealants can provide high levels of moisture protection beyond current design methods in c-Si panels, helping to reduce moisture-related power degradation and achieve more power output over a longer lifetime

The ASC Convention and EXPO featured discussions and presentations focused on some of the most pressing concerns within the industry.