What is Curing in Adhesives? When talking about Adhesives, Curing is a chemical process of the toughening or hardening of a polymer material by crosslinking polymer chains. Curing is achieved by chemical reactions which might or might not require mixing with a chemical curing agent. After curing, the final properties or the strength of the adhesive builds…
It may be surprising to know but there are numerous pressure sensitive tapes that are used in the electrical industry. Electrical adhesive tapes are of various varieties, specialized for specific purposes, and differentiated by colour. The benefits of using electrical adhesive tapes are that they offer excellent absorption, and have longer lives, depending on the kind of…
The Indian PSA market is set to grow at 7.4% from 2.0 billion square meters of PSA tapes to 3.3 billion square meters. The major factors driving the growth in this industry is diverse end-use in a wide variety of sectors right from medical, healthcare, electrical, electronics, automotive, construction etc., as well as rapid urbanisation…
It is imperative in any industry that uses pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA) tapes to choose the adhesive tape based on the application. There is ‘no one size fits all’ in industrial adhesive tapes. The adhesive tapes are decided upon various factors such as application, interior and exterior conditions, requisite properties required and so on. It…
Why won’t your adhesive tapes stick in cold weather? Why does the tape become dry, brittle, and offer little-to-no tack? Why does it lift and peel within days? To understand all this and more we first need to delve deeper into understating problems associated with taping when the temperature drops. What are the problems that…
What are Fire Retardants? Fire retardants are chemicals that are used to stop or slow down the action of fire. These compounds/substances are used in numerous materials such as textiles, plastics, and coatings to prevent the spread of fire. What are Fire Retardants Applied to? The retardants can be applied to the following: Electronics and…
The Signage Industry has one of the largest markets across the globe. There is a considerable progression in the advertising segment and the Indian advertising industry is growing by leaps and bound. This growth has also positively impacted the outdoor digital advertising medium over the last few years. In the Signage Industry there is a…
There are several factors that are important in the construction and effectiveness of adhesive tapes, some of the most important ones are adhesion, cohesion, and tack. So what is Adhesion, cohesion and tack? And why are they important? Adhesion Adhesion is when a bond is made between two dissimilar materials i.e., bonding of adhesive tape…
