urethanes | Adhesives & Sealants Industry

Cool Customers: Premixed and Frozen Packages for Adhesives and Sealants

Premixed and frozen packages provide highly reliable convenience packaging for plural-component resins.

March 5, 2020

Premixed and frozen (PMF) refers to plural-component resin systems delivered in syringes and cartridges that are premixed and frozen in dry ice.

What Are Structural Adhesives?

Structural adhesives can offer stronger bonds than mechanical fasteners.

Simla Ay

October 10, 2019

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A structural adhesive is a “load-bearing” adhesive that is used to bond a joint and is capable of holding two or more substrates together under stress.

LANXESS: Low Free Isocyanate Prepolymers for Adhesives and Sealants

LANXESS’ Adiprene LF technology reportedly creates prepolymers with < 0.1 wt% free MDI (methylene diphenyl diisocyanate) and other isocyanates such as TDI (toluene diisocyanate), HDI (hexamethylene diisocyanate), or pPDI (p-phenylene diisocyanate).

September 24, 2019

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At the recent FEICA European Adhesive & Sealant Conference and Expo, LANXESS highlighted its latest developments in low free (LF) isocyanate urethane systems for adhesives, sealants, and one-component foams (OCF).

Improving Coating Efficiency with Dispensing Technology

Applicator-friendly cartridge-based coating dispensing technologies can help reduce labor, waste, and disposal costs.

Rob Rochette

August 14, 2019

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In response to environmental concerns, many industries are moving from protective coating products containing solvents to 100% solid epoxies and urethanes.

FLEXCON CO. INC.: Urethane System

December 6, 2018

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This company offers a painted-on-look cast/urethane system.

ELLSWORTH ADHESIVES EUROPE: Dow Corning Adhesive

August 22, 2017

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This company recently announced the addition of the new Dow Corning EA-5151 adhesive to its product portfolio.

SARTOMER: Oligomer

August 14, 2015

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This company now offers CN9030, a new difunctional aliphatic urethane acrylate.

"Boring" Boron and Adhesives

Boron plays an important role in the formulation of adhesives.

Arun K. Chattopadhyay

September 2, 2014

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Considering the massive market size of adhesives and their importance in almost all sectors of materials and applications, boron likely plays a small yet definitive role in the adhesives industry.

Adhesives and Sealants at the 2014 FIFA World Cup™

We’ll be using our What’s New section in the June issue to highlight adhesives, sealants and coatings products that will be used for the tournament.

Susan Sutton

March 12, 2014

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The 2014 FIFA World Cup™ is scheduled to run June 12-July 13 in Brazil, and I absolutely cannot wait!

Bonding Composites: From Performance to Fashion

Adhesive formulators are developing a variety of bonding systems to meet the needs of the dynamic composites industry.

Laurie Gibbons

August 5, 2013

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Composite materials, including carbon fiber, are often preferred over conventional materials such as metal because they are lightweight, versatile and resilient.