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Mar 21, 2007 | Article
Heat-sealing adhesives are thermoplastic materials that can be coated onto substrate surfaces and later reactivated by heat and pressure. They differ from conventional hot melt adhesives that are...
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Dec 13, 2006 | Article
Under constant pressure to improve manufacturing processes, manufacturers face the challenge of selecting from an array of sealing technologies. In addition to traditional adhesive tapes and liquid...
Dec 21, 2005 | Article
All these techniques are used to decorate wood based panels or even wood ( such as cheap wood ) in order to obtain the aspect of true and expensive woods by using nice wood veneers or decorative...
Nov 16, 2005 | Article
We start now to study Furniture adhesives and bonding techniques. The first step in Furniture manufacturing is to decorate panels by bonding a decorative veneer ( true wood veneer ) or film or other...
Oct 5, 2005 | Article
For many applications, such as flexible packaging, the use of a single material may not satisfy all of the properties demanded of the product. In these cases, a composite consisting of two or more...
Jun 29, 2005 | Article
In this section we will now study a first series of applications and end uses: panels manufacturing and primary woodworking. Primary woodworking encompasses adhesives and binders for the production...
May 18, 2005 | Article
Pine chemicals are renewable, naturally occurring materials derived from the pine tree (genus Pinus). The range of chemical classes obtained from pine trees includes numerous plant sterols, terpenes...
May 11, 2005 | Article
These adhesives or glues have been developed a long time ago: urea-formaldehyde ( UF ) and phenolics (PF) started in the years 1920, melamine-formaldehyde ( MF ) and resorcinol-formaldehyde ( RF )a...
Mar 16, 2005 | Article
Nonwoven fabrics may be defined as fibrous webs that are bonded together by the addition of chemicals or by fusion of some constituent fibers, to impart strength and integrity to the final product...
Jan 26, 2005 | Article
There are several common types of polyurethane adhesives. They can be classified primarily as reactive and nonreactive types and they are summarized in Table 1. This article will discuss mainly the...