Adhesives & Sealants Industry

November 2020

November 2020

Read all about packaging, from formulating packaging adhesives to choosing the best packaging option for your product. This issue also includes the 2020 Raw Materials and Chemicals Overview in this issue, so be sure to check it out!

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Pressure-Sensitive Glazing Tapes for Window Fabrication

Residential and commercial window manufacturers depend on pressure-sensitive tapes to provide immediate handleability and increased throughput during fabrication.
Rick Alexander
November 12, 2020
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Pressure-sensitive glazing tapes form a bond and seal between an insulated glass unit (IGU) and a framing system, window sash, or door. The term “glazing tape” is used throughout the residential and commercial fenestration industries but can mean different types of products to different end users.


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Pine-Based Tackifiers Offer Sustainable Packaging Solutions

Bio-based tackifiers allow packaging adhesive formulators to meet their most difficult challenges with minimal impact on the environment.
Olivia Jobes
November 17, 2020
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Two of the biggest challenges facing the global adhesives and sealants market today are meeting consumer preferences for sustainable packaging and aligning with the industry’s increasing regulatory demands, especially when it comes to food applications.


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Advancing Adhesives

Modifying Expectations: Novel Urethane Modifiers Outperform Traditional Plasticizers

New urethane-grade modifiers are demonstrating significant potential for formulators to improve performance in polyurethane adhesives and sealants.
Jenna Blankenship Julie Vaughn Biege Laura Kovach Kyle Posselt
November 6, 2020
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Today’s urethane product formulators need to meet a wide range of consumer and regulatory requirements. As premium chemistries, reactive adhesives and sealants must be compliant, have good safety and sustainability profiles, and perform exceptionally.


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Trends in Reusable Protective Packaging Drive Growth of Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive Applications

Choosing the right pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) tape for reusable protective packaging depends on the need of the specific application and the materials that are being bonded together.
Janet Page
November 10, 2020
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The reusable protective packaging market has grown in recent years. Not only do businesses want to safely distribute products throughout the supply chain, they want to do so in an environmentally friendly and sustainable way.


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Thinking Outside of the Box When Choosing the Right Packaging

The role of packaging has evolved for some time and now must include brand awareness, values, and sustainability.
Justine Hanlon
October 27, 2020
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In years past, if you wanted to protect, ship, and sell your product, you put it in a can, bottle, or box. Today, packaging comes in all different forms, types, shapes, and sizes. While the options are not necessarily endless, packaging design is limited only by imagination and requirements.


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2020 Raw Materials and Chemicals Overview

What repercussions has COVID-19 had on price fluctuations and availability for key raw materials used in the adhesives and sealants industry?
Michael Rezai
November 4, 2020
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As a vital industrial link between a turbulent oil and gas market and changing consumer needs, the chemical industry has been tested by the COVID-19 pandemic.


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Evolving Solvent-Based Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives

Developments in the construction of high-solids solvent pressure-sensitive adhesives are enabling a range of new products and increasing the toolbox for formulators.
Ann McGlone Steven Medina
October 29, 2020
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Sustainability is an ever-present driver for new products and applications. In pressure-sensitive adhesives (PSAs), sustainability is sometimes an underlying influence in the move from solvent- to emulsion-based products. This is not an option for all applications, however, as solvent-based PSAs give increased performance and processability compared to emulsion PSAs.


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ASC 2020 Virtual Convention and EXPO

Bringing the Industry Together at the ASC Virtual Convention and EXPO

The ASC Virtual Convention and EXPO will offer a co-located short course, live keynote speakers, dozens of education sessions, an interactive exhibition, and many networking opportunities.
October 8, 2020
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The global COVID-19 pandemic has made it challenging for the industry to come together at traditional trade shows, meetings, and other events. The ongoing crisis and evolving safety guidelines prompted The Adhesive and Sealant Council (ASC) to pivot multiple times throughout the year, ultimately developing a Virtual Convention and EXPO that will be held November 4-6.


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Pros and Cons of Polyurea Adhesives

I understand that polyureas are very fast curing. Why don’t we see them used as adhesives?
October 29, 2020
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Polyureas have a lot of similarity to polyurethanes, but they are two-component systems based on reacting an isocyanate with a multifunctional amine rather than with a polyol. This chemical reaction is extremely fast, quite often just a few seconds.


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Adhesives and Sealants Industry Finds Gratitude

As an industry, we will gather together virtually for the Adhesive and Sealant Council’s Virtual Convention and EXPO, which will be held November 4-6.
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Susan Sutton
November 2, 2020
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By any measure, 2020 has been a difficult year. Indeed, for some, it’s been truly catastrophic. Despite all of the challenges and losses, though, good things have still managed to occur.


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