Water based adhesive manufacturing

Water-based adhesives are used for a wide variety of industrial applications, including packaging, labeling, woodworking, paints, molds, fixtures and sealants.

Water-Based Adhesive Manufacturing utilizes water as the carrier fluid of the adhesive, which is made up of a number of synthetic materials that give it the desired strength, thickness, color and other properties. Preference for water-based adhesives has been influenced by many factors, including the rapidly growing practice of using packaging that is itself eco-friendly and biodegradable.

Water-based adhesives are now being used in various applications—including those involving paper, fabric and wood—that once relied almost exclusively on solvent-based adhesives. Technology, green politics and innovations in water-based adhesives may contribute to making solvent-based adhesives obsolete in the coming decades.

Massachusetts' Key Polymer Corporation is one of New England's leading Water-Based Adhesive Manufacturing companies. A member of the Drug, Chemical & Associated Technologies (DCAT) Association, Key Polymer was founded in 1959. The company manufactures a wide variety of proprietary and custom-formulated adhesives, coatings and other chemical compounds, including water-based and epoxy adhesives, wax butyl rubber blends, and epoxy/urethane potting and encapsulating products for industrial applications.

Key Polymer is also a toll manufacturer of chemical compounds, coatings and adhesives. Key Polymer toll-manufactures customized adhesives and chemical compounds for many of its clients. The company's technical and production experts work closely with clients to ensure production efficiencies as well as product performance.

Key Polymer's toll/contract manufacturing services include blending and packaging of intermediate and finished adhesives, coatings and other chemical materials.

Key Polymer Toll/Contract Manufacturing at a Glance
• Capable of delivering water-based adhesive and coating batches of up to 3,000 gallons each
• Cleanroom for production of adhesives and coatings used in the electronics industry
• Can receive railroad tank car shipments for further production or distribution
• Polyurethane and epoxy adhesives compounding of coatings and pastes (up to 1 million CPS)
• Polyurethane reactions
• Rubber milling
• Hot melt adhesive production
• Solvent adhesive and coatings production
• Liquid polymer blending, including addition of fillers, colors and carbon black
• Thermoplastic compounding
• Production of dispersion with three roll mills and dispersion mixers
• Storage of raw materials and finished products at 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 degrees Celsius)