Industrial Adhesives Reference Materials

Description: Select Master Bond adhesives have been engineered to retain mechanical strength properties after prolonged exposure to elevated temperatures. This strength retention was recently demonstrated in a ...

Description: Adhesives require a chemical reaction to convert their structure from the liquid to the solid state. Once cured, the adhesive provides a high-strength bond between two substrates, which resists ...

Description: Here's a closer look at some of the key factors to consider when your adhesive application has to beat the heat or cope with the cold. ...

Description: Die attach adhesives serve a critical role in semiconductor assembly and throughout the product lifecycle. Beyond their ability to form a tight bond between die and various substrates, these ...

Description: A guide to selecting the adhesives, sealants and coatings that can withstand harsh chemical environments. ...

Description: Fast cure adhesives are a great way to reduce assembly costs, but only in the right applications. ...

Description: I recently spoke with Graham Wilson (Sr. Applications Engineer at Indium Corporation) about the advice he would give to customers looking to form the best possible seal using indium wire or indium ...

Description: Industrial tapes come in seemingly infinite permutations, all differing in adhesive type, backing materials, dimensions, physical properties and intended applications. Given the number of tapes on the ...

Description: The powerful Li-Ion battery packs of today's modern electric vehicles rely on a wide variety of technologies to ensure the best possible driving experience. Gasketing and structural bonding play a key ...

Description: If you've decided to explore a switch to adhesives, the next step is understanding your options. There are pluses and minuses to each chemistry, so be sure to consider your needs before researching a ...

Description: Faced with tighter regulatory demands and growing consumer awareness of better fuel efficiency and reduced emissions, automotive manufacturers and suppliers are increasingly moving from traditional ...

Description: Noticeably absent from vehicles over recent years is the appearance of rust, that orange-red coating that forms on the surface of metals and weakens the bonds of the metal itself. This is due to ...

Description: Lightweighting continues to be a major focus of innovation within the automotive industry, especially with the addition of in-vehicle technologies for a wide array of advanced driver assistance ...

Description: It's the end of the On the Road Technology Tour, however the journey towards advanced chemistry for tomorrow's vehicles is just beginning! Henkel invited attendees from Automotive OEM and Suppliers to ...

Description: Adhesives can be seriously strong. They're used in the manufacture of anything from airplanes, automobiles and massive machinery to baby products, golf clubs and mobile phones. These are demanding ...

Description: It's one of the most basic necessities in manufacturing - attaching two parts or components together in a way that will be secure, reliable and, in some cases, add to the aesthetic appeal of the ...

Description: Adhesive and non-adhesive Polyethylene Foam is often your solution to packaging, joining, mounting, gasketing, and sealing irregular surfaces ...

Description: When it comes to new automobiles, there is a delicate balance between design and engineering. The design team needs to deliver a vehicle that is appealing to the consumer and the engineering team ...

Description: Typically used to augment the seal or holding force of a mechanically joined assembly, anaerobic adhesives are used as threadlockers, thread sealants, retaining materials, and flange sealants. When ...

Description: The objective of this article is to educate the reader on the benefits of and relationship between APP systems and adhesives. Using APP treatment with adhesives can create potential for both cost ...

Description: Design and production engineers rely upon adhesives to provide solutions for structural bonding, cylindrical assembly, threadlocking, flange and thread sealing, and a range of other design challenges. ...

Description: Industries around the world are catching on to the improvements offered by modern structural-grade adhesives. Consider the aerospace industry, which for generations relied on mechanical fasteners to ...

Description: Rapid innovation in today's electronics industry is driving smaller scale and higher speed, because of this, circuit board cooling remains a primary challenge. Two wellknown principles govern thermal ...

Description: Many high bonding tapes have proven to be an alternative to screws, rivets and welds and will permanently adhere one substrate to another while spreading the stress load across the entire length of ...

Description: 4moms is dedicated to developing innovative baby products that make life easier for parents. With solutions that carry the most precious cargo, 4moms uses LOCTITE threadlockers to ensure its products ...

Description: The New Holland combine harvester holds the Guinness world record for the most grain harvested in 8 hours (551 tons). That kind of reliability is critical for farmers, who have a short window to bring ...

Description: The island Ockero, off Sweden's west coast, is home to the ship propeller manufacturer Berg Propulsion, one of Sweden's leading high tech companies. The demands placed on the reliability and ...

Description: La Cornue uses LOCTITE adhesives to enhance the design, performance and reliability of its cookers. La Cornue's handmade and custom-ordered cookers are a favorite among the rich and famous all over ...

Description: Polaris snowmobiles are pushed to extremes by competitive riders, who put the sleds through punishing snocross racing, freestyle competitions and distance jumping. Polaris specifies LOCTITE products ...

Description: Herrenknecht is the world's leading manufacturer of tunnel boring machines, with 100 machines at work on projects ranging from traffic tunnels in Kuala Lumpur to the Paris metro. The machine's massive ...

Description: PING is a leading golf equipment manufacturer founded upon providing innovation, quality and service to golfers worldwide. PING leads the industry with clubs designed to improve the game of golf, and ...

Description: Joker FX, a designer and manufacturer of visual communication displays, creates outdoor signs and visual display products that face a number of challenges. They need to be strong, durable, paintable ...

Description: Take a closer look at silicone adhesive systems, whose main strength lies in their unique combination of flexibility, high temperature resistance. Read more here. ...

Description: Answer these five basic questions to select the ideal medical adhesive for your application. ...

Description: When considering adhesives, bonding surface is a critical factor. Unlike processes that alter and join surfaces, such as welding, bonding with adhesives involves attaching two surfaces, without ...

Description: Tier I Automotive Supplier needed to guarantee the placement of cyanoacrylate (instant) adhesive on an a painted metal part prior to mating to rubber component in their high-speed assembly process to ...

Description: Glossary of adhesive terms, types, and more. ...

Description: Selecting the correct syringe (barrel), tip, piston & adapter is crucial for optimal dispensing. ...

Description: Mix ratio of a two part epoxy is extremely important in achieving a proper cure. Epoxies use a chemical reaction between a resin and hardener which have a stoichiometric ratio that determines the ...

Description: Silver epoxy adhesives (ECAs) have been widely used in semiconductor and electronic packaging industries since the 1960s, as a reliable connection method instead of soldering or eutectic joining of ...

Description: In adhesive bonding the epoxy is only one part of the equation. Each substrate that is being adhered to is often as important as the adhesive selection. Physical properties such as bond strength, ...

Description: Epoxy adhesive components can be supplied in many different shades and colors, often varying lot-to-lot in appearance. Visual color differences are monitored closely and only after proper quality ...

Description: Room Temperature Curing Electrically Conductive Adhesives (RT ECA) are an attractive option for use with substrates and components that cannot withstand typical heat curing conditions (100°C-150°C) of ...

Description: Epoxy resin separation ("resin bleed or bleed out") is a phenomenon that can take place when working with filled, adhesive systems dispensed onto various surfaces/substrates. It is often described as ...

Description: For wet particle analysis, a Hegman Gauge (sometimes referred to as a grind gauge) is frequently used to determine the fineness of the grind and to analyze different types of particles within an epoxy ...

Description: Optical or unfilled epoxy adhesives are commonly used for adhering various substrates, encapsulating components and providing protective coatings in several optical applications. They are found in ...

Description: The unique molecular structure of epoxy allows for a large variety of mechanical properties through varying formulations. Epoxies can range from very soft and flexible to very hard and rigid. Softer ...

Description: Commonly, customers will purchase two component epoxies premixed and frozen in syringes for automated dispensing. This removes the weighing step and ensures that material has already been properly ...

Description: B-staged epoxy resin is a descriptive term used to define a one component epoxy system, using a latent (low reactivity) curing agent. This unique product can be partially cured (sometimes referred to ...

Description: Epoxy adhesives are a great choice for many applications for their excellent adhesion, chemical and temperature resistance, as well as many other attributes. When selecting an epoxy for a specific ...

Description: Epoxy adhesives are universally known for their high strength and toughness in bonding a wide variety of substrates found in semiconductor and electronics assembly. Although an epoxy's inherent nature ...

Description: The Glass Transition Temperature (Tg) is one of the most important properties of any epoxy and is the temperature region where the polymer transitions from a hard, glassy material to a soft, rubbery ...

Description: Aluminum is a popular metal that is often chosen in various manufacturing processes. It has many important physical properties including: light weight, corrosion resistance, excellent conductivity, ...

Description: Dielectric, by definition, means any insulating medium which intervenes between two conductors. In simple terms, it suggests the absence of conduction and describes materials which are not electrical ...

Description: Pot life, working life, and gel time are properties of an epoxy that can vary greatly from product to product. These properties play a vital role in material selection in choosing an adhesive for a ...

Description: Polyimides are synthetic polymers containing two acyl groups (C=O) bonded to nitrogen (N); known as imides. They are supplied as a one component system and typically contain solvents. Polyimides are ...

Description: Viscosity and Thixotropic Index (TI) are common terminology used to describe the rheology of an epoxy. They both play a large role on how a product will perform for a particular application. ...

Description: Air entrapment is an inevitable occurrence when any product, regardless of its rheology, is mixed. This tip discusses three techniques for removing and reducing this entrapped air. ...

Description: Epoxies cure by a kinetically favored process known as an exothermic reaction. By adding a part B curing agent to the part A monomer, the result is a cured polymer network. Some proceed very rapidly ...

Description: It can often come as a surprise, but crystallization is more of an inconvenience rather than a problem. The ones who are most aware of it are our customers. Frequently, a jar, bottle, bucket or ...

Description: A major advantage of using an epoxy is that it provides a very strong, permanent bond in adhesive applications. This permanence can also act as a limitation when needing to rework, remove or ...

Description: UV curing adhesives offer a convenient way to quickly cure a product in specific applications. These types of chemistries offer two fundamentally different cure mechanisms, cationic or free radical, ...

Description: Structural polymers over distinct advantages over traditional fastening methods. ...

Description: Thermabond®-NP Compliant Adhesives are used to bond two interfaces that require a thermal path between them. Thermabond accomplishes this by using mineral or metallic fillers incorporated into a ...

Description: Thermabond® Adhesives are used to bond two interfaces that require a thermal path between them. Thermabond® accomplishes this by using mineral or metallic fillers incorporated into a ...

Description: Low temperature flexibility of silicone rubber fusible tapes is studied by measuring the stress-strain relationship at sub-ambient temperatures. Observations are correlated to thermal transitions ...

Description: This guide gives recommendations for storage and shipping conditions of Arlon Silicone Technologies Division products 99990A008 and 99990A015. ...

Description: The conditions of space impose a unique set of constraints on the technologies that take us there. Indeed, the rigors of space exploration have often been the driving force behind many new ...

Description: Typically, the most difficult part of working with Thermabond® is liner removal after the material has been tacked to the heat sink. The key to this process is to avoid trapping air at this ...

Description: A wide variety of thermal interface adhesives are available for the electronics industry. In the application and cure cycle of these adhesives, pressure plays an important role in determining the ...

Description: Platen Press Curing and Vacuum Bag Curing of Thermabond® Adhesives. ...

Description: Thermabond® adhesion to aluminum with various anodized coatings. ...

Description: To meet the needs of customers who want the speed and strength of solvent-based adhesives without their unfavorable safety and environmental profile, 3M has developed a new water-based product called ...

Description: Applications that need to meet stringent outgassing requirements now have more adhesive options than ever. ...

Description: Thermally conductive adhesives and potting compounds are an important weapon in the war against heat raging within today's powerful electronic devices. ...

Description: For many years, the adhesives and sealants industry has used a range of standardized test methods to ensure the quality of products for industrial applications. Laboratories generally embrace these as ...

Description: Thermal-mechanical decoupling by a silicone thermal interface material (TIM) is one of the most important properties in electronic applications involving a printed circuit board (PCB). ...

Description: Void content at the interface of the bonding adhesive and rigid substrate of an electronic assembly can affect critical performance metrics such as thermal transfer, bond strength, and stress ...

Description: Adhesives that cure under a UV light source are user friendly and versatile—if you know how to apply them ...

Description: In the world of pressure sensitive adhesives or PSA's, you will find no shortage of physical property data. Peel strength,shear strength, loop tack and temperature information are all readily ...

Description: Many performance and economic drivers are causing customers to consider and use structural adhesives in replacing traditional joining methods-including weight and energy savings, labor cost ...

Description: The presence of foreign contamination on surfaces to be coated or adhesively bonded may interfere with both the initial and long term integrity of the bond. Significant effort is required to clean the ...

Description: A transparent protective film allows perfect visual inspection. Designed as an application tape for emblem and badge mounting. The tape can be cleanly removed from plastics, wood, painted steel and ...

Description: Conformable construction designed for gap-filling and cushioning applications that require environmental resistance. ...

Description: Designed for bonding automotive mirrors to mirror housings where good adhesion, heat resistance, environmental resistance, gap-filling and shatter resistance are important. ...

Description: Designed for die-cut shapes, shielding, moisture and vapor barrier sealing components or lamination to insulation materials that require environmental resistance. ...

Description: Designed for taping joints and seams against moisture and vapor on foil jacketing facings. ...

Description: Designed for die-cut shapes, shielding, moisture and vapor barrier sealing components or lamination to insulation materials. ...

Description: Scrim reinforced tape offering very good adhesion to a wide variety of foams on low surface energy substrates. High temperature resistant and relative low fogging, very suitable for automotive ...

Description: An abrasion resistant tape designed for low coefficient of friction applications. Ideal for anti-squeak and rattle applications. ...

Description: Designed for moisture barrier and heat shield applications that require environmental resistance. ...

Description: Designed for a variety of applications requiring initial quick stick. Excellent for foam bonding applications and used in electronic and packaging applications. ...

Description: Designed for applications requiring an aggressive, high shear adhesive for use on a wide variety of substrates. ...

Description: Designed for applications requiring an aggressive, high shear adhesive for use on a wide variety of substrates. ...

Description: Designed for applications requiring an aggressive, high shear adhesive for use on a wide variety of substrates. ...

Description: Specially developed for buried graphic label applications. ...

Description: Designed for bonding to a wide variety of polyurethane and polyethylene foams used in gasketing, sealing and sound damping applications. ...

Description: Designed for bonding to a wide variety of polyurethane and polyethylene foams used in gasketing, sealing and sound damping applications. ...

Description: Designed to provide an economical product for general purpose bonding, good low surface energy properties. ...

Description: Designed to provide an economical product for general purpose bonding, good low surface energy properties. ...