Article: Adhesive Technologies for the assembly of hard-to-bond plastics.

Hard-to-bond plastics such as acetals, polyethylenes, fluoropolymers, polypropylene and TPVs are used in virtually all industries due to their low cost, flexible design capabilities, and superior performance properties. Many assembly methods exist for joining similar and/or dissimilar plastics -- from mechanical to chemical methods. Adhesive assembly provides unique benefits such as the ability to bond and seal, even distribution of stress across a joint, rapid fixture and cure times, gap filling abilities, and easy automation.

Defining Hard-to-Bond Substrates

Hard-to-bond substrates feature no functional sites or surface roughness onto which an adhesive ...

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