Industry Applications:

Transportation

Adhesives are an integral part of the headlining process and it may be challenging to find the right adhesive in an ever evolving industry placing increasing demands on manufacturers. Rest assured that there is always an adhesive for the job!

The importance of a clean and professional finish is paramount for high ticket items in the transportation industry. Glues must provide a secure and even, durable bond, creating an invisible and seamless aesthetic. No small task when you consider the ever changing materials and designs incorporating such elements as displays, controls, and lighting.

Industry Applications:

Transportation

Adhesives are an integral part of the headlining process and it may be challenging to find the right adhesive in an ever evolving industry placing increasing demands on manufacturers. Rest assured that there is always an adhesive for the job!

The importance of a clean and professional finish is paramount for high ticket items in the transportation industry. Glues must provide a secure and even, durable bond, creating an invisible and seamless aesthetic. No small task when you consider the ever changing materials and designs incorporating such elements as displays, controls, and lighting.

Modern adhesives are up to the task, providing all manner of solutions to bond a range of materials, including innovative, environmentally friendly, low VOC substrates that allow manufacturers to improve on sustainability whilst ensuring functionality and safety.

The right adhesive will also allow manufacturers to avail of advantages such as fast cure times, primerless application, reduced coating weight, and automation to continuously optimise manufacturing efficiency.

The transportation industry has endless uses for adhesives, bonding panels, flooring, seating, headlining, sealing windows and more.

Structural adhesives allow for the use of lighter weight materials, improving performance, efficiency, and sustainability. Bonds are more durable, reducing the need for maintenance and repairs. Adhesives also reduce noise and vibration, improving end user experience. Seamless finishes create an upgraded aesthetic for a high quality product.

Overall, adhesives create a great deal of additional value for the customer, whilst also offering benefits for businesses – faster production times, reduced costs, and better profit margins.

Bus and Rail Interiors

Transportation interiors require functional and durable bonding agents that create a high quality finish.

Bus and rail interiors are high footfall spaces that place great demands on joining agents due to the high probability of wear and tear. Modern adhesives provide the strength of bond necessary to meet the standard required.

Whether used in flooring, seating, or headlining, adhesives create a secure and long lasting bond that extends evenly throughout the surface to reduce the chance of damage and extend the lifespan of the interior.

Structural adhesives, that enhance the strength of the entire structure, allow for the use of lighter weight construction materials, a factor that contributes to overall performance and efficiency of the vehicle, whilst at the same time improving sustainability.

Adhesives also produce a higher quality finish with seamless bonds to ensure a great aesthetic result.

Top Benefits

Improved Aesthetics and Seamless Finishes

Lightweight Construction

Durability and Long-Term Performance

Catering Vehicles

Catering vehicles place specific demands on the performance of adhesives. Not only do they require the same level of strength and durability, but they must do so under the additional pressures of a wide range of operating conditions.

Catering vehicles carry not only heavy food production equipment like fridges, fryers, and ovens, but any manner of food prep equipment, and the raw ingredients. Bonds and seals must be able to bear the required weight and offer top, non toxic performance long term under heavy use.

Reducing overall load is important and structural adhesives can contribute by allowing the use of lighter weight materials whilst maintaining the strength of the entire structure.

Design is critical, as space is of the utmost importance, and here, adhesives make a key contribution in allowing designers a greater degree of flexibility in terms of materials used, the type of fixings required, space usage, and the end aesthetic.

The interior of catering vehicles presents a unique environment, subject to extremes of temperature and humidity, airborne fats and other food particles, which must be thoroughly cleaned regularly in order to comply with health and safety requirements. Once again, adhesives can deliver, providing bonding solutions that endure these challenging conditions to meet the need for durability over time.

Top Benefits

Improved Aesthetics and Seamless Finishes

Lightweight Construction

Durability and Long-Term Performance

Livestock Trailers & Horseboxes

Livestock trailers and horseboxes require a wide range of functionalities from adhesives.

Not only must they form strong, durable bonds capable of carrying heavy loads under significant stress during transport for potentially long periods, they must also be resistant to a range of environmental exposures.

Adhesive strength and performance is paramount for livestock trailers of all types in order to maintain the safety and comfort of the animals. Adhesives are required to form flexible bonds that withstand the pressures of heavy loads and transportation, whilst also providing considerable noise and vibration dampening.

Glues must also be capable of withstanding not only exposure to a range of weather conditions, rain and temperature fluctuations, but also frequent exposure to waste and cleaning chemicals.

Adhesives offer livestock trailer manufacturers additional flexibility in design and functionality to cater to the specific needs of this unique industry.

Top Benefits

Improved Resistance to Corrosion and Environmental Factors

Strong and Durable Bonding

Enhanced Aesthetics and Design Flexibility

Mobility Vehicle Conversions

Adapting or converting vehicles for mobility assistance represents a significant investment for vehicle owners, who want to be assured that this investment will pay off long term.

Not only is smooth functioning and safety paramount, but owners want to know that adaptations will continue to perform long term.

Whether youโ€™re fitting hand and foot controls, steering aids, and swivel seats on cars, or lowered floor conversions, wheelchair lifts, and steps to commercial vehicles, adhesives have much to offer.

Not only do adhesives provide structural strength, enabling lightweighting of materials, they offer far better durability than mechanical fixings, reducing the need for maintenance and repair. The aesthetic appearance is far better with adhesives, creating a high quality finish for the client.

In addition, your own business can benefit from fast and easy application, reducing servicing time, reduced costs, and better profit margins.

Contact our expert team today to identify the best adhesive for your business.

Top Benefits

Improved Aesthetics and Seamless Finishes

Lightweight Construction

Durability and Long-Term Performance

Recreational Vehicles & Campervans

Adhesives can be used for a range of applications in RV and campervan manufacture, including glass installation, attaching body elements, panel assembly, sealing, interior trimming, headlining, flooring, solar panel adhesion.

Structural adhesives create the opportunity to use lighter weight materials whilst maintaining the strength of the overall structure, allowing manufacturers to provide a more efficient vehicle whilst at the same time reducing production costs.

Adhesives are more than capable of securing durable, waterproof bonds to withstand environmental exposure to the weather and UV, along with enhanced thermal insulation, resulting in a high performance, high value product.

As high ticket items, motorhomes and campervans require a high quality finish to meet customer expectations, and adhesives contribute greatly to the standard of the finished product.

Adhesives also contribute much to process efficiency – minimising bonding steps, speeding up bonding processes through fast cure times and the automation of application, resulting in faster production and cost savings.

Top Benefits

Improved Aesthetics and Seamless Finishes

Lightweight Construction

Durability and Long-Term Performance

Trailer Refurbishment

The cost and downtime of taking a trailer off the road is a significant expense for your customers, so you want to be sure that you can deliver the performance, durability, and safety that theyโ€™re looking for.

Hereโ€™s where adhesives come into their own, offering a higher strength bond than mechanical fixings or welding, improving the strength of mechanical fixings where necessary, offering additional structural integrity, reducing noise and vibration, and providing sealant capacity for water resistance. Overall this results in increased durability to road forces and weather conditions of all types.

Not only can your customers benefit, but you can too – adhesives are fast and easy to apply, reducing repair time, whether youโ€™re bonding panels, flooring, curtains, or seals. You can reduce your costs whilst delivering a top quality service.

Contact our team today to find the right adhesives for your trailer refurbishment service.

Top Benefits

Improved Aesthetics and Seamless Finishes

Lightweight Construction

Durability and Long-Term Performance

Van Conversions

Whether youโ€™re converting cars into vans, retrofitting campervans, or creating custom interiors, adhesives have much to offer. Modern glues enable you to provide a higher quality service whilst also optimising profit margins.

Adhesives offer structural strength to allow lightweighting and improved appearance of bonds, both of which increase design options. Adhesives allow for more even stress distribution of road forces, protect against loosening joints, corrosion, rust, and weather exposure, resulting in greater durability. As an added bonus, they reduce noise and vibration, creating a more pleasant driving experience.

Your business also benefits – modern adhesives are cost effective, reducing fixing inventories, production time, and reducing costs. Contact our expert team today to find the right solution for your business.

Top Benefits

)Improved Aesthetics and Seamless Finishes

Lightweight Construction

Durability and Long-Term Performance

PVC and Rubber Repair

Bond strength and durability are key factors to consider when repairing PVC materials.

Whether youโ€™re fixing a curtain sider truck, inflatable dinghy /boat or simply repairing a bouncy castle or slide, you need an adhesive that is up to the task.

Materials, like PVC, Hypalon, Rubber etc can require quick on-site or renovation repairs. These repairs prolong the life of the equipment and maintain safety for the users. One needs to ensure that your adhesive will form a strong but flexible bond. There are various adhesives available for these materials all of which have great bond strength when applied correctly.

Different formulations of adhesives are available which will withstand extreme environmental conditions like heat, humidity, salt water, and the application of cleaning chemicals.

Glues for flexible plastics and rubber are fast and easy to apply with a brush or roller and can be used to repair tears and reinforce seams.