Short-term temperature tolerance up to 260 °C, with an operating temperature tolerance of up to 150 °C 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.

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. 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. 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: 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).Any great mechanic knows that to get the best results, you need the best products. While you may have some old glue or tape in the cupboard or the toolbox, car glues, adhesives, tapes and sealants are created to high-standards, which mean they won’t damage or destroy the finish on your car. Silicones - chemically more precisely known as poly(organo)siloxanes or siloxane - are synthetic polymers whose silicon atoms are connected via oxygen atoms (Si-O-Si). They occupy an intermediate position between organic and inorganic compounds. At present well over 10,000 different types of silicone are known. Silicone rubbers are differentiated according to the temperature required for cross-linking. 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. 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. With this information, the adhesive and surface treatment can be selected based on technical data sheets, experience and the literature. If it is important, adhesive samples should be made and tested before the adhesives are used. In mechanical testing, the bonded joint is loaded until it breaks. The type of fracture provides information about the quality of the bond and indicates where defects occurred during bonding. An adhesion fracture is when the adhesive detaches from the joined part. A cohesion fracture is a fracture in the adhesive itself and a fracture in the part to be joined describes a fracture outside the adhesive surface in the part to be joined.

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. Designed for use with medium and high surface energy materials like metals, polyimides and polycarbonate 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.

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Adhesive Tapes are used in many sectors of industry on account of their excellent performance. They offer the unique advantage of economical, fast and clean processing compared with other mounting systems – both manual and automated. To ensure that the performance potential of our adhesive tapes is fully utilised, please follow the processing instructions listed below: 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. Using this method it delivers a speedier application than mechanical fasteners, therefore replacing rivets, screws, bolts and spot welds. The heavy-duty bonding tape is viscoelastic in nature, giving foam stress relaxing and energy-absorbing properties – but what does this mean? Avoiding these forces causing failures over time, this happens with mechanical fixings, and leads to further maintenance and increased cost. If you already didn’t need an excuse to use this tape in your industry its durability is further increased by its resistance to solvents, moisture and UV, reducing wear unlike mechanical components, which can be easily corroded. UHB Bonding Tape Sizes 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 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.