General Industry

If you’re dealing with tight tolerances, repeatable tasks, and bottlenecks with existing adhesive processes, automation could be a smart next step. The right system can pay for itself in time by reducing waste, improving consistency, and freeing up labor. Here’s when it starts to make sense:

• It has become necessary to scale production to higher volumes
• You’ve narrowed consistency as an issue for bond quality
• You want to increase throughput without additional headcount
• You’re working with complex patterns, micro-dispensing, or multi-part assemblies

Creating a reliable automated process doesn’t have to happen from scratch. If you’re locked into a specific adhesive or already have equipment on the floor, there are multiple ways to further optimize. We can help you:

• Retrofit existing lines with robots or metering and mixing systems
• Improve processes with new dispense heads, valves, and controllers
• Reduce errors and rework with vision systems and sensors
• Establish more effective, ergonomic single-operator workflows

Yes, and pre-kitting materials is often one of the easiest initial ways to improve efficiency. Our facilities can downpack, repackage, and bundle materials into field-ready kits for specific tasks in your workflow.

• Pre-kit adhesives with PPE, dispensers, mixers, SDS & more
• Reduce worker chemical exposure
• Eliminate oversized containers, reduce waste, and simplify inventory

One-component (1K) adhesives are delivered as a single material, ready to be dispensed. They commonly cure with heat, moisture, and time, and sometimes have specialized storage requirements. Two-component (2K) systems contain two different materials that must be mixed before curing. Each has tradeoffs.

1K materials are good for maintaining simplicity with minimal equipment and are best when you can accommodate longer cure times or heat curing. Often, 2K materials offer a more customizable solution, and may have longer shelf life. Our experts can help test what’s right for your environment.

Adhesives can often replace welds and rivets, and they do it with additional benefits on top of just attaching parts. Structural adhesives can distribute stress more evenly across parts, reduce weight, and eliminate laborious drilling and clean-up. Adhesives can be especially effective when:

• Joining dissimilar materials with different properties
• Vibrations need to be dampened, or fatigue failure is a concern
• Aesthetics need to be improved across flex-prone panels or along seams
• Welding is too expensive, labor-intensive, and requires clean-up

Parts that are expected to move, flex, or have differing thermal expansion rates will require adhesives that stretch and conform without breaking. Our experts can help you compare chemistries, test samples, customize existing adhesives, and create custom converted tapes and stack-ups, all depending on your process.

Common solutions for irregular parts or flexible bonds include:

• Silicones, urethanes, and SMPs for flexibility and weather resistance
• Formulas for impact absorption or vibration dampening
• Converted tapes for clean, mess-free seals on complex parts