MKVS 2023 to Highlight Bonding Breakthroughs & Trends in Raw Materials

TAGS:  Hot-melt Adhesives      Sustainability / Natural Adhesives    

The 48^th edition of the Munich Adhesives and Finishing Symposium 2023 is scheduled to occur from October 23^rd to 25^th, 2023. This event will take place at the Leonardo Royal Hotel Munich in Munich, Germany, approximately 2.5 months from now.

Motto: “Let Us Stick Sustainably Together”

The event’s motto is “Let us STICK sustainably together” focusing on new approaches, developments, materials and trends in raw materials, applications and process engineering of gluing, coating and converting.

This year the Munich Adhesives and Finishing Symposium puts its focus on gluing, coating and converting, and covers the whole span from raw materials and applications to process engineering for and within all involved adhesive systems (hotmelts, hot melt pressure sensitive adhesives, adhesive melts and extrudable films) as well as the related technical equipment.

48^th MKVS 2023 – Program Overview

Divided into five sessions, the subjects with all submitted abstracts recently online launched very interesting program ranges across the whole areas of gluing, coating and converting industry and include materials, processing, raw material and product design, existing and expected (European) legislation and regulation, sustainability, energy efficiency, research, development and innovation – mainly in paper, plastic, foil, self-adhesive materials, tape and label, packaging, coating and lamination as well as non-woven related applications.

A few of the interesting and cutting-edge topics out of the broad spectrum of presentations from national and international acting companies, institutes and universities from the world of adhesives, coating and converting:

1. Overview of pressure-sensitive adhesives market; AWA Alexander Watson Associates
2. Applying Barriers on 3D Fiber Packaging; pacoon sustainability concepts
3. Perfectly integrated security features: the versatility of hotmelt adhesives in security systems; artimelt
4. Compostable polymers for high-tack pressure-sensitive hotmelt adhesives; Corbion
5. Novel styrene-isoprene block co-polymer for hotmelt label adhesives; TSRC Corporation
6. Pushing boundaries by new polymer design – enabling sustainability; Henkel
7. Assessing sustainability with LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) – Focus PCF: Tools for calculation; German Adhesives Association (IVK)
8. Polyolefin foams in a life cycle approach and their contribution to a sustainable economy; Sekisui Alveo
9. Empowering circularity through product development; Dow Chemical
10. Achieving sustainability goals with adhesive technology; Jowat
11. Impact of functional hydrocarbon resins on curing mechanism of PUR adhesives; Rain Carbon
12. Temperature resistance versus temperature durability; Saint-Gobain PPL Biolink
13. Chlorine-free contact – water-based pure acrylic PSA for 2K foam bonding via spray application; Synthomer Germany
14. Contact adhesives for bonding of soft-PVC and formulations with sustainable solvents; ARLANXEO Deutschland

The 2.5-day technical conference and networking event will be rounded off also this year by a small tabletop exhibition, with companies like e.g., JRS-Prozesstechnik, Keyser & Mackay, Kraemer Resins, Kraton Chemicals, Lawter, Netzsch-Geraetebau, Rocholl, Vink Chemicals

Registration as well as further information and updates about the symposium on the MKVS 2023 website.

Source: 48. Munich Adhesives and Finishing Symposium 2023