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 Sourcing, specifying, and purchasing adhesive tapes can be a daunting process. There are literally millions of different tapes to choose from, and finding the right one for your needs can be an intensive process. In many cases a full service converter can be a great partner to help you find the correct tape, integrate it into your current processes, and even lower your total applied costs. As a bonus, by partnering with a full service converter you can benefit from their expert knowledge and value-added services.
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 Rubber adhesive technology is a core competency for MACtac Specialty Products. Advancing its trusted rubber-based adhesive technology, the new 593XT adhesive, an improved rubber adhesive formulation available in three calipers for functional applications, was recently introduced to the market.
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 In today’s advanced information age, a common search for the term “Pressure Sensitive Tape” will likely result in canned responses. Descriptions such as this, however, fail to capture the important role that each of these elements play with regard to today’s advanced pressure sensitive adhesive tapes. While all tape components are important when determining performance, this article will offer a closer look at the all-important tape backing systems.
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 More and more design requirements are leaning toward lightweighting to conserve energy, increase portability, and/or decrease manufacturing costs. Let Budnick and 3M help you find adhesives to solve some of the standard challenges in lightweighting.
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MACtac ® Graphic Products expanded its line of sustainable digital print media with IMAGin ® Verde ™ VM2229P and VM3209R. Both new wide-format UV-printable media are 100 percent chlorine-, phthalate-, and PVC-free film, designed for applications where a greener, durable media is desired. Read the rest of entry »
It’s happened again! Budnick Converting is honored to announce that we have again been named as one of the best workplaces in the St. Louis Metro Area! Not only that, but we have been listed as the #4 Top Small Company! Citing our culture of continued learning, creativity, excellence, and employee empowerment, Budnick employees had a lot to say about the joys of working not for, but WITH Budnick’s owner, Ann Wegmann. At Budnick Converting we work hard to cultivate a workplace culture where people enjoy coming to work everyday!
Paper, by its very nature, is an absorptive medium. In high humidity, as typically experienced in the summer months, paper will absorb moisture from the atmosphere. As a result, the paper swells; it grows in all three dimensions creating a waviness which we call cockling.
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New reinforced tape from 3M ensures pipeline integrity and enhances productivity in extreme deep sea environments.
Addressing the challenges posed by the harsh environments and extreme pressures of deep water drilling, 3M introduces Scotch® High Strength Filament Tape 890HD. With up to three times more tensile strength than any other pressure sensitive filament tape on the market, the new Scotch® High Strength Filament Tape 890HD protects the structural integrity of flexible pipe required in subsea tiebacks.
For more than 30 years, 3M has been providing Scotch® High Strength Filament Reinforced Tapes to the oil and gas industry. As an extension to the existing product portfolio, the new tape provides tensile strength without sacrificing the flexibility necessary in deepwater applications. The reinforced tape is used to contain the steel bands or wires used for armoring flexible flowlines, risers and umbilicals during manufacturing. This critical process step prevents the catastrophic failure c ...
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With winter upon us, it's a good idea to examine the effect of low temperatures on self adhesive tape performance. The general rule is that the higher the temperature, the less force it takes to stretch a visco-elastic material. Conversely, the flexibility of the PSA polymers are reduced as the temperature decreases, causing the adhesive polymers to become harder and stiffer.
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In most instances, a bonding tape can be selected that bonds well enough to the substrates to meet the needs of the application. However, you should always consider the surface and environment that you are working with.
Before bonding, surfaces should be clean, dry, unified and free of wax, oils, dust and other contaminates. Some typical surface cleaning solvents are a 50/50 isopropyl alcohol and water mixture or heptane. Light abrasion can be used to remove lose materials or other contaminations from the surface and should be followed by thorough cleaning.
When dealing with difficult to bond substrates and critical applications, use of an adhesion promoter or primer can increase adhesion levels and help ensure the best ultimate bond strength. 3M Adhesion Promoter 111 (AP-111) and 3M Primer 94 (P94) are two broadly useful promoters for high strength bonding tapes and form the basis for an easy primer selection system.
When a primer is needed, 3M AP-111 is often a preferred choice becaus ...
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