Converting applications with hot melt coatings

Hot melt coatings and laminations are used for a wide range of end products - from dry peel labels to shoe materials; from lamination of papers for packaging to lamination of materials for cap seals.  Our technology encompasses a wide experience of end uses, some of these are given below.

Contact us or your local distributor to identify the adhesive grade best suited to your application requirements. Find your local distributor on our 'Global Network' pages


Dry peel labels

Hot melts to give easy peel of multi-layer labels without disfiguring or removing the base label. The adhesive can be written upon, but the label cannot be rebonded. They can be used for product promotions, delivery labels, docu-forms and competition labels. Click here for our press release on dry peel lables.

Shoe materials

Hot melt adhesives to bond to leather, non-woven materials and hard to bond plastics such as Surlyn ionomers, which are widely used in shoe construction.

Our hot melt adhesives can be used in toe puffs and heel counters as well as other assembly operations.

(Surlyn is a trade mark of DuPont)






Bag and sack manufacture
 

We have hot melt adhesives for the many applications found in bag and sack manufacture.

From side seaming to top and bottom sealing; from bonding plastic windows in paper bread bags to bonding reinforcement patches for the hand hole onto paper and plastic bags: from attaching paper and string handles to cardboard shopping bags to bonding the paper patch that covers the handle ends

Strapping tape

Beardow Adams has hot melt adhesive grades to meet the demanding requirements of the production of strapping tape, used for securing pallets and cargo.

The manufacture of strapping tape for packaging is a major application for hot melt adhesives and although not heat-ractivated, the adhesive coating has to perform in many ways. 

The hot melt coating, which is typically 10 gsm, must not be too flexible nor too rigid.  The adhesive must bind individual threads of the strapping too prevent separation of individual strands - it should create a "web" when pulled across the thread direction.  The coated tape must have sufficient friction to prevent slippage of buckles and other closures used to secure the load.  At the same time, it must exhibit a slight stickiness to hold the tape in place on the reel (to prevent unwinding), without creating too great a force that would slow down the process.

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