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bonding acrylic

High performance UV curing plastic bonding adhesive aids efficiency

20 February 2012 adhesives

Increasing production throughput of bonded plastic assemblies is high on the list of priorities these days for both design and production engineers, if what our customers say is anything to go by. In these situations, we are delighted to offer DYMAX Ultra Light-Weld® 3069, which is a UV/visible light-curable adhesive designed for rapid bonding and [...]

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Optically Clear Epoxies, Potting Compounds and Adhesives

10 August 2011 adhesives

The Opti-tec™ range of optical adhesives and encapsulant continues to develop, and includes many with high optical clarity or other special properties related to specific optical applications such as fibre-optic termination or optical potting and encapsulation. Some of the range have passed ISO 10993 testing for medical device manufacture or are Telcordia GR-326-CORE compliant. Specialist [...]

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Ultra-fast, clean bonding with light curing adhesives

28 June 2011 adhesives

Here is another of our current advertisements for our range of DYMAX UV/visible light curing adhesives. Improve productivity, reduce assembly costs and enhance safety, with cosmetically excellent bonds. For plastics, metal and glass.  

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Clear, fast plastic bonder… including acrylic!

28 January 2010 adhesives

Araldite 2028 adhesive is a fast setting, transparent, two-part polyurethane adhesive. What makes this adhesive different is that it is both transparent and UV stable, as well as flexible and fast curing. Araldite 2028 bonds wide varieties of plastics including polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) and polycarbonate (PC). Tailor made for seismic cables and cable assemblies, as [...]

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Bonding optical couplets

22 July 2009 adhesives

A question from the DYMAX blog: We have to manufacture a component which is comprised of two individual parts molded from acrylic (PMMA) that have slightly different additives. The parts have concave and convex surfaces which fit onto each other. We want optical coupling between these two surfaces. Can we place one piece as an [...]

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Adhesive for acrylic aesthetics

30 March 2006 adhesives

We have many customers who bond acrylic (PMMA) parts together to make display cabinets or point of sale structures. One way of doing this is to use a solvent based adhesive, but these often give cloudy or untidy joints. In an industry where cosmetic aesthetics is important (like selling cosmetics!), a clear and structurally secure [...]

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