Many Application of 3M Adhesive

We may know that 3M adhesive just produce adhesive tape for stationary but actually 3M adhesive for many application have produced. The different of each product applied for, such as the quality of tape, the stand to heat and stand to air exposure or water exposure. Each of product is purposed to certain application and you better don’t use for other applied.

These are of some 3M adhesive application examples, I don’t write it all because 3M adhesive product too much to write here.

3M adhesive tape for Automotive use:

3M adhesive for lubricant sealant

3M adhesive for Electrical Circuit use:

3M adhesive for corrosive protection

adhesive for electrical circuit

Tape dimension: 745 mm x 55 mm

Beside consumer product, 3M also produce other kind adhesive for industrial purpose such as follows:

resin ribbon

Pressure sensitive adhesive

Wood Glue Product

For industrial uses, wood glue can use Urea Formaldehyde adhesive. Because this adhesive is simple to use, spread over the surface of wood then use technique hot press to make wood stick each others. For house hold or small industry wood glue is sell in small packing like in tube or can.

Here are some of small packing wood glue in the market:

Loctite PI Premium 28 oz Construction Adhesive
Low VOC content meet stringent Federal and state regulatory requirement. Water proof – great for interior or exterior applications. Meets and exceeds APA specification, can be applied directly to dry, wet of frozen lumber.

3M Spray Adhesive
As usual application 3M Adhesive can provide high coverage with a fast, aggressive tack. Delivers versatility by securely bonding many lightweight materials. Gives a low soak in for long lasting bonds.

Air Stone as General Purpose Adhesive
Have adhesion and flexibility. Ready to use. Exterior or interior use. No need solvent, Cover 20 square feet, using a half inch bead

Can use for cement board, brick, cementations backer units, cured Portland cement plaster, gypsum, wallboard, exterior grade plywood, glass, PVC, aluminum, well cured concrete, galvanized steel, stainless steel stone and marble.

PC Products Epoxy Adhesive
Epoxy system for several rotted wood, hardens to near structural strength, mix and apply with pour bottle that is included, waterproof upon cure, use prior to rebuilding with PC-Woody paste epoxy.


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Water Base Adhesive

A water base adhesive is mixed with water, but a better adhesive won't to dilute in the water anymore after the mixture being dried. It's mean that the mixture of water base adhesive already cured. Curing reaction on the adhesive usually a function of temperature and time. Longer the adhesive been applied, adhesive mixture will become cured and can't be dilute again in the water. 

Some water base adhesive already patented but some of them don't extend anymore, because of many reason, such as no other company or people want buy the patent, or because that kind of adhesive formula already civilized so become the social patent, do not need to buy to formulate that mixture. The list of water base adhesive as on the picture below:

 Adhesive formulations are blends of aqueous polymer dispersions and a hydrophobic plasticizer. The blended dispersed polymers include at least one hard sulfonated polyester urethane, at least one soft non-sulfonated polyester urethane, and at least one polar non-polyurethane water-based polymer or copolymer. A high molecular weight elastomeric non-sulfonated polyurethane polymer and a crosslinker are optional further components in the blend. The formulations are useful as non-heat activating, one-component adhesives which generate excellent green strength, water and heat resistant bonds.

Forbidden Adhesives

Adhesives contain asbestos are forbidden to use because asbestos material already banned to use in all of manufacture. Asbestos containing adhesive is commonly used to help bond carpet, flooring and ceiling tiles in building prior to 1980s. It was also used to patch and seal joints on boilers and pipes in ships. Asbestos use in this product because it can make strong bond to many surfaces that could withstand to heat and even fire.

The various types adhesives known to contain asbestos include:

• Asphaltic cutback adhesive, this black color and usually beneath vinyl tiles and flooring.
• Cement adhesive; this also called as furnace cement or stove cement and is a type of joint compound. To replace this material in cheap price is difficult because asbestos is resistant to high temperature.
• Duct adhesive.
• Emulsion adhesive
• Fibrous adhesive
• Lagging adhesive
• Mastic adhesive
• Many seals in industrial parts.

Polyacrylic Esters Uses

Although aqueous dispersions of polyacrylic esters and copolymers with acrylic or methacrylic acid are primarily of importance as coatings, they have certain special adhesive uses: examples are the gluing of polyvinyl chloride sheet to paper, and in bonding glass mat used in making laminates; (in the later case it is not clear whether they are used as the laminating resin or as an adhesive for subsequently bonding the laminates).

Copolymers containing free carboxyl groups will form salts in alkaline media: aqueous solutions of the ammonium salts are claimed to have, after drying, special properties such as improved flexibility and water resistance.

Acrylic Acids and Acrylic Esters

Acrylic and methacylic acids can be prepared in a number of ways, one important commercial method being by the hydrolysis of acrylonitrile or methacrylonitrile. The Acids polymerize readily, but do not form stable thermoplastic polymers because they crosslink on heating; the resulting polymers, being water-soluble, are sometimes used as thickeners in aqueous adhesives.

Acrylic esters
The important esters are methyl acrylate, ethyl acrylate, isobutyl acrylate, methyl methacrylate and ethyl methacrylate. They are not normally made from the corresponding acids but from a variety of other starting materials, one of which is usually hydrogen cyanide or its sodium salt. The methacrylates are harder and tougher than the acrylates; all are soluble in a wide range of solvents; chloroform, ethylene dichloride, toluene or mixtures of toluene and acetone being generally preferred for adhesive solutions. The polymers are also soluble in the monomers which are fairly volatile liquids, adhesives can therefore be made by dissolving the polymer in the monomer, and this type of liquid adhesive, wherein the solvent can be polymerized, is important in certain applications, and especially in bonding polymethylmethacrylate sheet. Initial adhesion takes place largely through the tackiness of the dissolved polymer, but if a catalyst such as an organic peroxide is added, the monomer subsequently polymerises. In one patent specification a formulated adhesive is claimed that bonds glass to plastic surfaces, giving “adhesive strength that is higher than the cohesive strength of the glass itself. A practical example of bonding to glass is that in which an acrylic molding is glued to a television tube as a safeguard in case of implosion.

Acrylic Resin Adhesive

The acrylic resins may be considered as belonging to the vinyl family. Compounds with the prefix “acryl” may be divided into two classes: the first comprising those derived from acrylic acid, and the second, acrylonitrile and acrylamide. The term acrylic or acrylate is conventionally reserved for compounds of the former class and polymers derived from them. Acrylonitrile, which is vinyl cyanide, and the acrylamide are so called because they are respectively the precursor and amide of acrylic acid, but neither of these monomers or their polymers are conventionally designated acrylics. The acrylic of acrylate monomers have the general formula.

CH₂=CCH₃COOCH₂

And the most important members of this class are acrylic acid and methacrylic acid (R=H or CH₂ and R’=H) and their esters with the lower aliphate alcohols (R’=alkyl)