Industry Applications:
Packaging
Adhesives play a key role in the packaging industry, where bond strength and durability are central to the performance of packaging products. In fact the flexibility and versatility of adhesives have enabled the evolution of packaging across the board.
The packaging industry has high expectations of adhesives, requiring high strength bonds that continue to perform through a wide range of environmental conditions, with potential to be exposed to extremes of temperature and weather.
Sealing properties are also important, particularly for food safety, but also to protect all manner of goods from damage.
Durability is a must, to ensure that goods are protected during transportation and a number of handovers during the supply chain, or storage for potentially months or longer.
Modern adhesives are more than up to the task, offering a number of business benefits, including faster production times, cost savings, higher quality end products, and ultimately better profit margins.
Industry Applications:
Packaging
Adhesives play a key role in the packaging industry, where bond strength and durability are central to the performance of packaging products. In fact the flexibility and versatility of adhesives have enabled the evolution of packaging across the board.
The packaging industry has high expectations of adhesives, requiring high strength bonds that continue to perform through a wide range of environmental conditions, with potential to be exposed to extremes of temperature and weather.
Sealing properties are also important, particularly for food safety, but also to protect all manner of goods from damage.
Durability is a must, to ensure that goods are protected during transportation and a number of handovers during the supply chain, or storage for potentially months or longer.
Modern adhesives are more than up to the task, offering a number of business benefits, including faster production times, cost savings, higher quality end products, and ultimately better profit margins.
Bag and Sack Manufacturing
Bag and sack manufacturing is an area where adhesives excel, offering high strength bonds across a range of common bag and sack materials like paper, recycled materials, plastics, wovens, non-wovens, loop fabrics, recyclable, compostable, and biomaterials.
In this area there are a range of adhesive options fully compliant with EU food safety regulations that have high shear, heat, humidity, and deep freeze resistance to cope with any type of fresh, dry, or stored food applications.
Many of these solutions can be integrated into your existing manufacturing systems and offer easy to apply, fast curing glues that help your business focus on the bottom line whilst also staying up to date with the latest sustainability options.
Bespoke Packaging
The bespoke packaging sector has very specific requirements for adhesives due to the changeable format of products manufactured.
The custom nature of the work limits options for automated application of glue, rather there is a need for versatility and adaptability in the type and method of adhesive application.
Selecting adhesives that will function with a range of substrates whilst also optimising ease and speed of application can be tricky – take advantage of the expert knowledge offered by our technical team to identify the best adhesive for your business.
Carton & Cardboard Box Assembly
Adhesive quality is crucial to the cardboard box industry, determining not only the strength of the box but the level of protection for goods inside. Whether it’s seam sealing or laminating, finding the right glue is an important step for manufacturers.
Adhesives must be able to perform at a high level, offering enough strength to hold heavy contents like vegetables or household cleaning products across a variety of environmental exposures, whether it be hot, humid kitchens, cold freezers, or deliveries in damp and rainy weather.
They also need to keep pace in a factory environment, optimise production speed, prevent clogging of machinery and downtime, and create a professional aesthetic.
Contact our expert team and discover how adhesives can improve your manufacturing operations whilst also reducing costs.
Cardboard Pallets
Cardboard pallets are gaining popularity as a lighter weight, safer, more sustainable, and more cost effective option than traditional pallets.
Bond strength is of course of great importance in this product due to the potential for heavy loads, not to mention the need for resistance to a range of environmental conditions.
Adhesives are up to the task, with high strength bonding capability that ensures structural integrity and product performance despite all manner of operating conditions. There are a variety of products available that allow for end of life recycling, an increasingly attractive selling point for modern businesses.
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Composite Pallets
Bonding composites can be challenging due to the range of materials used in the substrate.
When it comes to composite pallets, there’s little room for error, as bond strength is hugely important in pallets which may be subject to high loads and all kinds of environmental conditions.
If you’re struggling to find the right adhesive for your composite pallets, our team can help you troubleshoot to find a solution that will ensure performance whilst also addressing manufacturing issues in a cost effective way.
End of Line & Cardboard Box Sealing
Sealing cardboard boxes and end of line packaging has become more challenging in recent years due to the increased marketplace interest in sustainability.
Many businesses are finding it challenging to incorporate more sustainable options whilst also maintaining bond strength, packaging aesthetics, production speed, and equipment performance.
This is where our technical team excels – in supporting your business to find the ideal solution to manage these competing demands. Whether you’re struggling to switch to new sustainable materials, being plagued by nozzle clogging, or experiencing a high rate of pop opens, our team will help you troubleshoot to find the right solution to protect machinery, minimise downtime, and optimise manufacturing speed.
Flexible Packaging
Flexible adhesives are the cornerstone of the flexible packaging industry, a face paced world working hard to keep up with consumer demands and market trends.
Supermarket aisles abound with flexible packaging, containing an endless variety of food items, household products, toiletries, cosmetics, and medications.
This diverse product range results in a vast range of performance requirements for flexible packaging, whether it be thermal resistance, waterproofing, strength to hold liquids, or compliance with food safety regulations.
Available in many different formulations, adhesives can cater to almost any application, offering the right balance of adhesive performance, safety, functionality, productivity, and cost effectiveness.
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Paper Bag Assembly
Sustainability is driving an increase in demand for all types of paper bags, which means that adhesives must also keep pace, catering for a wider range of uses, whether for warm and humid foods or heavy loads.
Not only do adhesives need to keep pace with modern demand for compostable or recyclable products, they must also ensure compliance with food safety legislation, and cater to the different performance requirements of the handles, base, side seams, and windows.
We’ll help you find a solution that ticks all the boxes whilst also optimising line speeds, minimising downtime, and improving profit margins.
Sustainable Packaging
Sustainability has brought change to the packaging industry in recent years, with consumer demand driving ongoing innovation in materials and adhesives in order to provide more biodegradable, recyclable or compostable alternatives.
The adhesives industry has followed suit, offering an increasing number of sustainable options to provide renewable and biodegradable alternatives, low VOC options, and facilitate end of life recycling and composting.
Our team can help you improve sustainability whilst maintaining packaging performance, production speed, and profitability.