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Thin bonding lets your design shine without bulky fasteners by using a virtually invisible industrial-strength bond to attach materials. Using a tape rather than a liquid adhesive allows you to customize the tape to the precise shape you need for the final design, as well as giving you production flexibility by leaving the liner in place until the second substrate is ready. Double coated or adhesive transfer tapes provide shear strength, conformability and high initial adhesion and have industrial applications in electronics, auto interiors, signage and graphics, sporting equipment and much more. Our tape offering includes reflective tapes, silicone tape, standard masking tapes, and heavy duty masking tapes that are more resistant to weight and weather. Epoxy glues Double-sided acrylate foam adhesive tapes for a wide range of applications are available on the market. They're made of closed-cell acrylate adhesive for demanding material combinations or critical plastics with low surface energy such as PE or PP. These are able to absorb forces well and are therefore permanently resistant to tensile, shear, splitting and peeling forces. They're suitable, for example, for car mirror bonding or for the bonding of mouldings and decorative trim. ABS - acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene is an everyday plastic that is widely used today because of its surface hardness, high impact strength and good resistance to weathering, ageing and chemicals. Unfortunately, the low-energy ABS cannot be glued completely without problems with common adhesives and usually this is only possible after a surface treatment with the solvent methyl isobutyl ketone. However, ABS with ABS can also be bonded with methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) / butanone and dichloromethane (methylene chloride). Optimum procedure: Clean bonding surfaces, dry. Apply one coat of adhesive to one or both sides and allow to flash off briefly before pressing together. Further information.
The flowable, red silicone rubber (RTB/HB) has a high heat resistance and low elasticity. They are used as mould construction material for casting moulds for low-melting metals where high hardness is required. Mechanical pretreatment by brushing, grinding, sanding or sandblasting - this changes the roughness and the size of the surface area effective for the bond. At the same time, loosely adhering reaction products, polishing and sliding agents and stabilisers are removed.
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Plastic components are often fixed with the aid of adhesives to prevent them from slipping during further process handling. Acrylate-based adhesives in particular usually adhere very well to many plastics. They have a strengthening and supporting effect for load transfer and stress reduction. Acrylic adhesives, which are also used for permanent bonding, are characterised by short processing times and high strength to many plastics and elastomers. These adhesives achieve, for example, as 2-component adhesives on low-energy plastics such as PC, PMMA, PVC etc., good shear and peel strengths as well as good impact strength under dynamic loads. From the 3M Scotch-Weld series, even acrylic adhesives have been developed in the meantime, which provide good results on difficult to bond plastics with low surface energy without any surface preparation or primer. In contrast, the low-viscosity, hot-crosslinked silicone rubber (RTV/NV) is medium-elastic, has good flowability and low viscosity. It is therefore particularly suitable for the manufacture of elastic wax or relief casting moulds, casting moulds for figures or decorative panels, moulds for casting with epoxy / casting resin, cement, plaster or other flowable materials. But structural damage to the new CFRP aircraft can now also be repaired by bonding: Lufthansa Technik has developed a new type of repair method here as part of the "Rapid Repair" research project: A milling robot cleanly mills out the damaged area (on a wing, for example) and a precisely fitting repair part is inserted with an adhesive film. Under vacuum and using a heating mat, the repair patch hardens and can be repainted. Afterwards there will be no more visible signs of the repair. Advantage: No holes need to be drilled which could destroy the sensitive fibre structure. The term sponge rubber is mainly used to describe open-cell and elastic foams that have a closed, leak-proof outer skin. These are expanded by adding blowing gases made of natural rubber, chloroprene, acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber or similar synthetic rubbers and are classified as porous rubbers. During vulcanisation, the blowing agent inflates the compound and gives the thermoplastic elastomer permanent elasticity. Sponge rubber is generally considered to have poor to hardly any adhesion. Depending on the second material, only individual, special adhesives are available that enable usable bonding. Adhesions of sponge rubber to certain plastics such as polyolefins (polyethylene, polypropylene) or rubber are particularly critical. Further information. VHB™ Tape permanently adheres one substrate to another and spreads the stress load across the entire length of the joint
There is very convincing evidence that Heavy duty bonding tape in fact rivals the tried and tested method of riveting and conveys the following benefits: Designed for use with medium and high surface energy materials like metals, polyimides and polycarbonate The cold-crosslinking HTV silicone rubbers are plastically deformable materials which are used, for example, as cable sheathing, for electrical insulation or for sealing and damping purposes.Physical surface treatment processes use high-energy electron, laser or UV radiation in this process or thermal processes such as flame treatment or electrical plasma or corona processes. They change the surface chemically and physically. When flaming plastics, an open flame is guided over the surface of the part to be joined at a defined distance and speed. The flame can be used in a reducing or oxidising manner, depending on the type of plastic to be flamed. This makes the component surface more energetic and easier to bond. By adding chemically reactive substances, the surface can be influenced even further. Rubber or rubber-like materials are widely used in industry and everyday life: for example in seals and rollers, in vibration dampers or for footwear. In general, a whole range of different types of adhesives are suitable for bonding rubber. However, the optimum adhesive always depends heavily on the rubber compound and the intended use. Further information. Our high quality PVC banner hemming tape is used to reinforce the hems to outdoor display banners. Suitable for self piercing eyelets. Double Sided Correx Tape PMMA - polymethyl methacrylate, also known as Plexiglas and acrylic glass, impresses with its optical and surface properties. In everyday life, corrugated sheets, for example for the roofing of garden arbours or pergolas, are often mistakenly offered as plexiglass. In reality, they are made of polycarbonate or PVC, which can make a big difference when bonding the material. The same applies to so-called hobby glass from the DIY store. For bonding on low-energy plastics such as PMMA, the surface energy is of central importance. However, caution is advised when using certain solvents for bonding preparation. Otherwise, there is a wide range of high-performance adhesives on the market for efficiently bonding PMMA to numerous other materials. Further information.
Specialist car glues, putty and sealants are hard-wearing products that are built for a life on the road. They’re also able to withstand the weather. We have specialist car tapes too that will help you to carry out rapid repairs and detailed restorations or touch-ups. If you need cable ties, we’ve got those too for those urgent fixes (and for tying up cables too). PA - polyamide is high-strength and impact-resistant. Its abrasion and wear resistance combined with excellent sliding properties make it a preferred construction material in machine or vehicle construction. Because of its high mechanical strength, it has now even displaced many metal components in vehicle construction - sometimes reinforced with carbon or glass fibres. But PA is not easy to bond. High bond strengths of PA materials require the use of special pre-treatment methods or specially developed, reactive adhesives. Further information. Acrylic foam tapes, whose adaptable acrylic foam absorbs tension, dampen vibrations and compensate for different, material-dependent temperature expansions. These are suitable for metal/plastic bonding and are used in automotive applications, for example, for bonding decorative and side protection strips, plastic cladding, reflectors and mirror glass. POM - Polyoxymethylene is one of the most frequently used engineering plastics due to its excellent sliding and wear behaviour. With its outstanding mechanical properties, POM bridges the gap to the more expensive metallic materials, often replaces them and is therefore one of the preferred construction materials, e.g. for precision mechanical parts. Normally, bonding is only possible after surface pre-treatment by flame treatment, etching with primer, corona or low-pressure plasma. Modern, high-performance adhesives, however, can do without this. Further information. PP - Polyethylene has become an indispensable part of everyday life. It can be found in pipes, rain barrels, dishwashers and a multitude of industrial components, among other things. However, bonding the material is not without problems due to its repellent surface properties. However, efficient adhesive systems on the market today offer practicable solutions for this. Further information.Specifically designed to bond Plasticised PVC sheeting and rubberised materials, Suitable for bonding all plastics. Glass Clear UHB Acrylic Tape Silicones, with their low-energy, extremely repellent surfaces, are considered to be difficult or almost impossible to bond. Among the few adhesive products that show usable results here are, for example, new types of silicone transfer adhesives that, in combination with adhesive tapes, even enable efficient automation of series production processes - for example in the automotive sector. Further information. Offering a cleaner application than liquid adhesives, 3M™ Structural Adhesive Tape SAT1010is a single layer epoxy based adhesive tape for the Automotive industry (BIW), formulated for metal bonding applications. This tape is designed to provide structural bonding strength for various applications, specifically for bonding and isolation of dissimilar materials. In addition to bonding performance, the tape features gap filling properties due to its expansion features. Recommended Applications: Decorative material and trim, Nameplates and logos, Electronic displays, Panel to frame, Stiffener to panel
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