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Mar 12, 2019 | Industry News
H.B. Fuller Company has established H.B. Fuller Japan. This will strengthen its EA businesses in Japan by focusing on high-performance adhesives, including reactive adhesive chemistries and...
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Sep 1, 2013 | Article
Waterborne adhesives’ economic and environmental advantages combine with their performance to create a package whose value is hard to beat. They help meet health, safety and environmental demands...
Jun 5, 2013 | Article
Due to market conditions manufacturers of isocyanate based compositions may need to change ingredients utilized in the curable compositions (such as adhesives). Many compositions containing...
Feb 4, 2013 | Article
By Edward M. Petrie
This article provides a review of how polyvinyl chloride and acrylic plastisols can be utilized as adhesives and sealants. Plastisols are liquid dispersions of a finely divided thermoplastic resin...
Dec 26, 2012 | Article
This editorial describes recent developments to reduce hazardous components in polyurethane adhesives and sealants. Isocyanates and mercury or lead based catalysts are the primary focus of this...
Dec 19, 2012 | Article
This article reviews the efforts on utilizing recovered polyurethane scrap in adhesive systems and attempts to provide insight into the opportunities and technical problems that remain. The resuse...
Sep 10, 2012 | Article
This article focuses on the sustained release of microencapsulated components within coatings, adhesives, and sealants rather than on instantaneous or triggered release of the microcapsules'...
Apr 18, 2012 | Article
By Andy Extance
Though crude oil is rightly the ultimate source of many chemicals the adhesive industry uses, renewable alternatives can offer an alternative to aid economic and supply sustainability. To this end...
Feb 6, 2012 | Article
Using just one basic backbone polymer chemistry, polyurethane adhesives can serve a wide range of applications, from food packaging to structural panels. The major challenge for adhesive...
Dec 28, 2011 | Article
This article will first review the advantages of acrylic / polyurethane hybrid waterborne sealant formulations, and the routes to producing a polyurethane / acrylic base polymer system. The article...