How to bond polypropylene

There are metal adhesives and plastic adhesives but what to do when you want to bond plastic to metal? There are metal adhesives that bond some plastics and plastic adhesives that bond some metals. The specific substrates, as well as the surf...

Day 2 of JEC World Paris. Permabond is in the UK pavilion in hall 6, stand S50, and is busy helping to find bonding solutions for a diverse range of composites applications (honeycomb panels, carbon fibre automotive components, marine app...

Permabond 2K Primer is a dual purpose product, which indicates whether or not sufficient surface preparation has been carried out and contains an adhesion promoter to increase bond strength.  It is ideal for preparing metal, glass, plastic, ...

Join Permabond March 13th and 14th at the Design-2-Part Manufacturing Show at the Gaylord Texan Convention Center. Register here and visit Permabond in booth number  223.  

Off to a busy start at Southern Manufacturing & Electronics! Visit us on A165 right by the entrance to find out how to maximise your adhesive's performance with Permabond 2K Primer, bond polypropylene/polyethylene WITHOUT surface prep...

Metal Bonding Acrylic Adhesives Epoxies, Cyanoacrylates, and several other technologies provide excellent adhesion to metals.  Acrylic metal bonding adhesives are often chosen not only for the strong bonds to metals but also for the varie...

Join Permabond® Engineering Adhesives at Expo Manufactura February 5th through the 7th from 1:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Cintermex in Monterrey, N.L. Mexico Register here and visit Permabond in booth number 929! Únase a Permabond® Adhes...

Blue Center Innovation Technologies – Permabond’s new state of the art development, technical service & QC laboratories Misinto, Italy - 28th November 2018 Permabond has a history of developing and manufacturing engineering ...

What are industrial adhesives? How do they differ from consumer adhesives?  Strictly speaking, industrial adhesives are adhesives that are labeled for industrial use.  Various local and global bodies require industrial adhesives to include...

Recently I received a call for a 5-minute epoxy. In general terms, 5-minute epoxy is used to refer to two-component epoxy that start to set up in around 5 minutes.  But they are not all alike.  Epoxies can vary in viscosity, mix ratio, colo...

Permabond LH050 general purpose anaerobic pipe sealant is for use on metal pipe.   Permabond LH050  is classified by Underwriters Laboratories Inc.® for use in devices handling gasoline, petroleum oils, and natural gas (pressure not over ...

Threadlockers fill the space between the threads which prevents vibration loosening.    Anaerobic threadlockers are used for metal fasteners; they should not be used on plastics as metal ions are required to cure the material, and they can...

Bonding Dissimilar Substrates It goes without saying that if you are bonding plastics use a plastic adhesive and if your bonding metal, an adhesive for metal.  It gets more complicated when you want to choose industrial adhesives to join di...

One of the questions our tech team asks engineers seeking an adhesive recommendation is “How many assemblies will you be manufacturing?”  Although from a business perspective this is nice information to have; it is critical information t...