Short-term temperature tolerance up to 260 °C, with an operating temperature tolerance of up to 150 °C PMMA - polymethyl methacrylate, also known as Plexiglas and acrylic glass, impresses with its optical and surface properties. In everyday life, corrugated sheets, for example for the roofing of garden arbours or pergolas, are often mistakenly offered as plexiglass. In reality, they are made of polycarbonate or PVC, which can make a big difference when bonding the material. The same applies to so-called hobby glass from the DIY store. For bonding on low-energy plastics such as PMMA, the surface energy is of central importance. However, caution is advised when using certain solvents for bonding preparation. Otherwise, there is a wide range of high-performance adhesives on the market for efficiently bonding PMMA to numerous other materials. Further information. 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: Offering a cleaner application than liquid adhesives, 3M™ Structural Adhesive Tape SAT1010is a single layer epoxy based adhesive tape for the Automotive industry (BIW), formulated for metal bonding applications. This tape is designed to provide structural bonding strength for various applications, specifically for bonding and isolation of dissimilar materials. In addition to bonding performance, the tape features gap filling properties due to its expansion features.

The tape is typically applied during the body in white process. It is run through the automotive paint pre treatment process and then the e coat process. The tape expands and cures in the e coat cure oven to fill and seal small gaps. The tape forms a continuous barrier between similar and dissimilar materials, which minimizes electrical conductivity and helps prevent galvanic interactions.Designed for use with medium and high surface energy materials like metals, polyimides and polycarbonate

Mechanical pretreatment by brushing, grinding, sanding or sandblasting - this changes the roughness and the size of the surface area effective for the bond. At the same time, loosely adhering reaction products, polishing and sliding agents and stabilisers are removed. Specifically designed to bond Plasticised PVC sheeting and rubberised materials, Suitable for bonding all plastics. Glass Clear UHB Acrylic TapeThe term sponge rubber is mainly used to describe open-cell and elastic foams that have a closed, leak-proof outer skin. These are expanded by adding blowing gases made of natural rubber, chloroprene, acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber or similar synthetic rubbers and are classified as porous rubbers. During vulcanisation, the blowing agent inflates the compound and gives the thermoplastic elastomer permanent elasticity. Sponge rubber is generally considered to have poor to hardly any adhesion. Depending on the second material, only individual, special adhesives are available that enable usable bonding. Adhesions of sponge rubber to certain plastics such as polyolefins (polyethylene, polypropylene) or rubber are particularly critical. Further information. Rubber or rubber-like materials are widely used in industry and everyday life: for example in seals and rollers, in vibration dampers or for footwear. In general, a whole range of different types of adhesives are suitable for bonding rubber. However, the optimum adhesive always depends heavily on the rubber compound and the intended use. 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 VHB™ Tape permanently adheres one substrate to another and spreads the stress load across the entire length of the jointThe transparent plastic SAN from the group of styrene-based plastics is often used as a material for greenhouse or industrial glazing as well as shower cabins because of its weather resistance, rigidity and scratch resistance. Depending on the requirements, a wide range of high-performance adhesives is suitable for material bonding. Further information. 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

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. 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.

Plastic components are often fixed with the aid of adhesives to prevent them from slipping during further process handling. Acrylate-based adhesives in particular usually adhere very well to many plastics. They have a strengthening and supporting effect for load transfer and stress reduction. Acrylic adhesives, which are also used for permanent bonding, are characterised by short processing times and high strength to many plastics and elastomers. These adhesives achieve, for example, as 2-component adhesives on low-energy plastics such as PC, PMMA, PVC etc., good shear and peel strengths as well as good impact strength under dynamic loads. From the 3M Scotch-Weld series, even acrylic adhesives have been developed in the meantime, which provide good results on difficult to bond plastics with low surface energy without any surface preparation or primer. 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.